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1740s
The Enlightenment begins, a period of intellectual curiosity, scientific investigation and political philosophical debate
1740
War of the Austrian Succession, one of many wars leading to massive national debt for France
1748
Montesquieu publishes The Spirit of the Laws
1756
Seven Years' War with Britain and her colonies, which further exacerbates the French debt crisis
1762
Rousseau publishes The Social Contract
1774
August: Turgot becomes finance minister of France
August: after a period of division, the parlements are reorganised back into their original form
1775
April: American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) begins
June: Louis XVI crowned as king
1776
Finance minister Turgot dismissed by Louis XVI
October: Jacques Necker appointed minister of finances
1777
July: La Fayette volunteers to fight with American revolutionaries; becomes a general in their Continental Army
1778
February: France signs a military alliance with the American revolutionaries
July: Louis XVI formally declares war on Britain in support of the Americans, adding to the debt crisis
1781
Jacques Necker issues his misleading Compte Rendu, an account of the French financial situation
Necker dismissed by the king, at the suggestion of Marie-Antoinette
1782
Les Liaisons dangereuse published by de Laclos
1783
September: Treaty of Paris brings victory in the American Revolutionary War, though at great financial cost to France
1785
The Affair of the Diamond Necklace publicly embarrasses the royals, somewhat unfairly
1786
August: Calonne, the new finance minister, informs Louis that of the nation's imminent bankruptcy, proposing taxation reform
December: the Assembly of Notables is convened
1787
February: first Assembly of Notables meets and discusses the nation's financial status
March: Calonne publicly proposes tax reforms and is opposed by the Assembly of Notables
April: Louis attempts to break the stalemate by dismissing Calonne; he is replaced by Brienne
May: the first Assembly of Notables is dissolved
June: Brienne, the new finance minister, sends bills proposing tax reforms to the parlements
July: Parisian parlement rejects Brienne's legislative proposal for tax reform
August: The king dismisses the Paris and Bordeaux parlements, ordering them into exile
September: Brienne withdraws his reform package and settles instead for an extension of the vingtième
October: King allows parlements to be recalled and re-seated
November: the duc d'Orleans is exiled by lettre de cachetafter criticising the king's treatment of the parlements
1788
January: the parlement registers further loans but declares all lettres de cachet to be illegal
May: Two members of the Paris parlement are arrested for opposing the ministry's reforms
June: mobs riot and protest in Grenoble and Brittany, demanding the reinstatement of their local parlement
July: the beginning of rural harvests suggest poor years of agricultural production in 1788-9
August: Brienne schedules the Estates-General for May 1789, after learning that the state cannot repay loans
August: Brienne resigns and is replaced by Necker; critics of Brienne are released from arrest or exile
September: the parlement demands the Estates-General convene using the same procedures as its last meeting in 1614
October: Necker convenes another Assembly of Notables to discuss arrangements for the Estates-General
November: Society of Thirty formed, a group of liberal constitutionalists (including La Fayette, Sieyes, Talleyrand)
December: the second Assembly of Notables is dismissed after refusing to double the representation for the Third Estate
December: Necker and the king declare that the Third-Estate representation shall double, despite opposition from the Notables
1789
January: Sieyes publishes What is the Third Estate?
January: Louis commissions the writing and collation of cahiers de doleances, following the procedures of 1614
February: elections for delegates to the Estates-General begin throughout France
April 27: Gossip sparks the Reveillon and Henriot riots in Paris
May 5: Estates-General opens at Versailles; the First and Second Estates determine to vote by order, not by head
May 27: within the Third Estate delegates, Sieyes moves that the group affirms its constitutional and political powers
June 13: on invitation, several members of the clergy and aristocracy voluntarily choose to join the Third Estate
June 17: the Third Estate declares itself to be the National Assembly
June 20: after being locked out of a meeting hall, the Third Estate adopts the Tennis-Court Oath
June 23: Seance Royale; the king offers a 35-point program aimed at maintaining the three-estate hierarchy
June 24: more clergymen and nobles, including the Duc d'Orleans, cross the floor and side with the National Assembly
June 27: Louis XVI backs down and orders the other two estates to join with the Third Estate
June 30: crowd of 4,000 storms a prison on the left bank of the Seine, freeing dozens of mutinous soldiers
July: bread prices continue to soar, particularly in cities; most workers spend 80% of wages on bread alone
July 1: Louis XVI orders more troops to mobilise, particularly around Paris
July 2: public meetings at the Palais-Royal express great concern at the troop build-up
July 9: National Assembly reorganises itself and becomes the National Constituent Assembly
July 11: Necker dismissed by the king, prompting riots and sacking of monasteries and chateaux
July 11: La Fayette proposes that France adopt a 'Declaration of Rights', based on the American model
July 14: Bastille prison stormed and several officials (de Laulnay, Foulon, de Flesselle) murdered
July 13: the electors of Paris form a standing committee (commune) and a citizens' militia (the National Guard)
July 15: La Fayette appointed as commander of the National Guard
July 16: National Constituent Assembly insistson Necker's recall; Necker reappointed by the king
July 16: large numbers of royal troops headed towards Paris and Versailles are withdrawn
July 17: first signs of the Great Fear in rural France; National Constituent Assembly begins work on a constitutione
August 4: night-sitting of the National Constituent Assembly surrenders feudalism (the 'August Decrees')
August 11: abovreforms are ratified by the Assembly, with several less-radical amendments
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