French Revolution - Part 2
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- Women's March on Versailles
- Declaration of the Rights of Man
- Declaration of the Rights of Man:- All men are born and remain free and equal in rightsRights to:-Liberty-Property-Security-Resistance of Oppression 
- Reign of Terror
- Thousands of Parisian women protest and march over the rising price of bread. Ordered for the National Assembly to provide bread, and for King Louis and Marie Antoinette to return to Paris. Louis agreed and never saw the palace again
- Executions
- In 1789 France's National Assembly passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man. Its goal was to define the individual and collective rights of the people of France. 
- Rise of Napoleon
- Beginning in 1793, the reign of terror was a time period when the Jacobins, led by Maximillian Robespierre, took control of the French government. They executed anyone who they thought was not loyal to the revolution, a total of 40,000 people by the end in 1794.
- Fall of Napoleon
- In 1793 King Louis XVI was found guilty of treason against France. Only a day after his trial both him and his wife, Marie Antionette, were executed by guillotine for their crimes.
- Napoleon Bonaparte rose through the ranks of the French army, earning the title of General in a short time. When France's directory lost control of the country, his friends urged him to seize the power. Napoleon assumed the power of a dictator, and eventually emperor, setting up a new tax collecting system and establishing a better relationship with the church. 
- Napoleon made many great mistakes, the greatest being his march on Russia, which ended in the loss of over 400,000 soldiers. Napoleon was exiled only to return years later for his one last grab at power. He was again defeated by the British armies and exiled, where he lived for the last years of his life. 
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