French Rev - Timeline

Louis XVI was now the King of France, and tried to push fiscal reforms, but failed due to his incapability

Jacques Necker, Director - General of Finances issues his Compte Rendu, which stated that the government was in sound financial position

Necker resigned in May - due to lack of support from the King in further reforming finance

Charles Calonne was Controller-General of Finances from 1783 to 1787

Charles Calonne proposed a direct land tax and the reduction of some privileges of the nobles and clergy. To gain support, Calonne had King Louis call an Assembly of Notables

The Poor Harvests had crop failures and severe winters, which later resulted in a very bad hailstorm which destroyed crops, and resulted in the worst harvest in 40 years, which also resulted in bread prices rising

An Assembly of the Notables met at Versailles in February. It consisted of the nobility, bishops, and bureaucrats who Louis thought would help the reforms that were needed to straighten out Frances financial issues

Calonne was dismissed by Louis in April and replaced by Archbishop Brienne of Toulouse

In May, the Assembly was Dismissed

The Paris Parlement was exiled to Troyes - it returned to Paris in September 1788

The Parlements rights to protest royal edicts was removed

The Royal Treasury was Bankrupt

The King Granted the Third Estate double representative thoughwith limited voting

Reveillon made a speech in the local preparatory meeting for the Estates - General and expressed his concerns about the economic conditions in Paris, but his comments were misreported and instead said to have argued for the reducing of wages

A crowd of local artisans and workers originally staged protest marches against Reveillon

Protesters attacked and destroyed Revillons home and factory as well as Henriot

Opening of the Estates-General at Versailles

The Third Estate adopts the title of National Assembly

The Tennis Court Oath occurred, where Bailly stood on a makeshift table as each deputy approached with their handheld high, making a verbal oath and then singing a written copy which became known as the Tennis Court Oath

King dismissed Necker, as over 30 thousand troops surrounded Versailles

Mobs started storming the Bastille where 60 thousand people demanded muskets

The Great Fear was huge as the King's authority collapsed in Paris. Peasants were scared, which later lead to them attacking tax officers and burning documents outlining rents and dues

The August Decrees was a legal form that contained different articles that ended the noble privilege and power and formed a more equal society

The abolishment of feaudal rights

The National Assembly proclaims freedom of religion and the press

The Decleration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

October days was when a crowd of several thousand Parisians, many of them women, marched on Versailles to pressure the royal government