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At nineteen, Louis ascendes to the throne, his country nearly bankrupt.
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Louis appoints Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot as controller-general of finances. Which resulted in an increase in bread prices.
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Louis dismisses his minister who tried to reform the provincial parliments which was the main weapon of the upper class that opposed Louis' centralization of power.
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Due to an increase in bread prices, riots break out in Dijon. These became known as the Flour Wars.
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Flour War participants riot and demonstrate in front of the Palace of Versailles.
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Government minister Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes advocates calling an estates-general to end the crisis.
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By this time Turgot is able to put down most of the bread riots.
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France reluctantly recognizes the United States as a seperate country from Britain and are dragged into a war that will further their debt.
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Representatives of the tiers état form a National Assembly swearing not to leave until a new constitution is established.
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The king rejects the Tiers Etat
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Armed citizens storm and capture the Bastille. It is a fortress.
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National Assembly decrees abolition of feudilism.
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National Assembly decrees Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
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The King returns to Paris
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Removal of civil disabilities against jews.
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Abolition of nobility and titles
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Civil constitution subbortinating the church to the civil government inagurated by king Louis XVI
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Food riots across Paris
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Black citizen of French colonies granted equal rights.
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Louis XVI attempts to flee to Varennes but is recognised and forcibly returned to Paris.
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National guard fires upon crowd protesting against restoration of the King.
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The king formally accepts the Constitution
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France declares war on Austria, but French army flees at the sight of the enemy.
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Jacobin Insurrection again thwarted by gestures from the King, jacobins continue to defy the assembly,
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Jacobin masses storm the Tuileries Palace, massacring the Swiss Guard, and the King imprisoned.
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Lafayette flees to Austria
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Royalist riots in the Vendée, Britanny; armies suffer setbacks at Langwy and Verdun.
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Trial of the King begins
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Louis XVI is evacuated
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France declares war on Britain and Holland
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Popular riots in Paris
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Marie Anntoinette tried and executed
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The churches reopen for christian worship
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Napoleon assumes command of french army in italy.
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Napoleon consecrated as Emporer
