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Baron de Montequie, an enlightenment thinker, publishes a book that promotes the idea of seperation of powers.
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After the war with Great Britain, Thomas Jefferson writes the Decleration of Independance and America seperates from the British empire and become independent.
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The French Revolution begins when the King calls all the estates to talk about the new tax act. When the third estate is locked out of the meeting, they create a national assembly that ends the absolute monarchy.
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The Directory is losing control and popularity of the people. Around this time, Napoleon return from his battle in Egypt. His friends urge him to take political power. Troops take down national legislature, and the people who remain vote to take down the directory.
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A slave named Toussain L'Ouverture attempts to lead Haiti to freedom but is captured and sent to prison in the French Alps. After his capture, Jean-Jaques Dessalines fights France and declares independance.
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After restoring order in France, Napoleon crowns himself Emperor. Napoleon walks down the aisle of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and takes the crown from Pope Pius XVII and places it on his own head.
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A poor and well educated man named Padre Hidalgo, who strongly believes in enlightenment ideas, leads a march of Indians and Mestizoes towards Mexico City.
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Napoleon return from Elba and leads an army to attack the British in a village called Waterloo. At Waterloo, British and Prussian forces defeat Napoleon and he is later sent away and killed.
