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Director-General of finances, Jacques Necker, presnts his financial
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Necker resigns his position as minister of finance
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Joly De Fleury is appointed the minister of finance
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The King imposes a third additional tax for the period from 1783 to 1786
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France signs the treasty of versailles, thus ending the conflict with Britain over the American colonies
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Calonne is appointed the position of Controller-General (the Minister of Finances)
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the scandal of the Dinmond necklace affair tarnishes the reputation of Queen Marie-Antoinette
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Calonne proposes financial reforms to king
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The king convenes the Assembly of notables to discuss fiscal reform
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The king dissmisses reforming finance minister calonne and appoints brienne in his place
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The king closses the assembly of notables
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the law courts (parlements) of paris and bordeaux rebel against the king's authority and are exiled
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the king exerts authority upon the law courts in the 'royal session'
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the paris parlement states that the king has a duty to submit new laws to the parlements and that new taxes can only by impossed by agreement with the nation, as represented by the estates-general
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the king trys to disempower parlements by redefining their role and powers
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the start of the start of Noble revolt offten called the Aristocratic revolt, reffering to the fact that the resistance came from the nobles in the assembly of notables
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the Noble revolt ends
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the king calls a meeting with the estates-genreral for may 1789
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the royal treasury suspends payments, a near equivalent to bankruptcy
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the finance minister Brienne resigns, and necker is recalled
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the king reopens parlements. the paris parlement demands that the estaes-general meet and vote by order
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the start of Assembly of notables meeting to discuss the organisation of the estates-general
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the Assembly of notables meeting ends
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Concession of doubling of the number of deputies for the third estate
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Formal call for estates general to meet
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Publication of Sieyès What is the third estate
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The start of the election deputies to the estates-general at versailles. drafting of book of grievances
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Crowds attack and destory reveillon factory. class conflict
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Opening of estates general. king maintains traditional honorific distinctions between orders
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Controversy of voting by order or by head, third estate demands voting by head
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clergy and nobility accept principle of taxation equality
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the end drafting of book of grievances
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Some parish priests join the third estate
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the second stage of the revolution referred to as the Bourgeois revolt, because deputies of the third estate now stepped forward and claimed a new constitutional role for themselves.
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the third estate meets up in a tennis court and swears to not disband until there is a constitution
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the national assembly defies the royal order to return to discussion by order
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A deputation of nobles join third estate
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The three orders unite
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The king orders troops to paris
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Despite popular protests against troop presence, the king refuses to withdraw them.
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increasing agitation in paris. the king dismisses necker. the third state of the revolution is often called the revolt of the urban working classes- desmoulins exhorts the people to arm themselves
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The bastille is captured