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  Napoleon invades spain and portugal; the king of spain goes to prison tand the king of portugal flees to brazil.
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  king louis tries to tax the second estate but the nobles refuse to pay.
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  King louis calls for the estates general to meet the following spring after a rough winter.
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  The storming of Bastille
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  National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man of the citizen
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  The French Revolution begins
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  First time the Estates General meets in approximately 175 years
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  The third estate proclaims themselves the national assembly; National assembly swears the tennis court oath
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  Austria and Prussia issue a declaration warning against harming the French monarchs and hint that any such action would provoke war
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  Mob storms the Tuileries Palace and throws Marie Antoinette and her children in prison.
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  National Concention declares that Freance will be a republic and not a constitutional monarchy
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  King Louis XVI executed by guillotine
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  Robespierre and his supporters are executed; the reign of terror ends.
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  Napoleon faced off against a mob of royalists trying to regain power in paris.
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  The French Revolution ends
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  Napoleon sells the Louisiana Territory in North America to the united states
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  Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France after a plebiscite.
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  Napoleon attempts to invade and takeover russia
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  Napoleon defeated in Leipzig