The French Revolution Create a timeline of major political events categorizing the events into one of the four stages: First Stage (1789-1791) Second Stage (1791-1792) Constitutional Monarchy Third Stage (1792-1794) Reign of Terror Fourth Stage (1794-1799) Directory (PLZ ANSWER ACCORDING TO 9TH CLASS)
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June 7: Day of the Tiles in Grenoble, first revolt against the king.
July 21: Assembly of Vizille, assembly of the Estates General of Dauphiné.
August 8: The royal treasury is declared empty, and the Parlement of Paris refuses to reform the tax system or loan the Crown more money. To win their support for fiscal reforms, the Minister of Finance, Brienne, sets May 5, 1789 for a meeting of the Estates General, an assembly of the nobility, clergy and commoners (the Third Estate), which has not met since 1614.
August 16: The treasury suspends payments on the debts of the government.
August 25: Brienne resigns as Minister of Finance, and is replaced by the Swiss banker Jacques Necker, popular with the Third Estate. French bankers and businessmen, who have always held Necker in high regard, agree to loan the state 75 million, on the condition that the Estates General will have full powers to reform the system.
December 27: Over the opposition of the nobles, Necker announces that the representation of the Third Estate will be doubled, and that nobles and clergymen will be eligible to sit with the Third Estate.[1]