Louis XVI

Louis XV died at 3:15 AM on 10 May 1774, ending his nearly 59-year reign as King of France.

Louis XVI became King of France and Navarre on 10 May 1774, succeeding his paternal grandfather Louis XV.

Louis XVI signed a formal Treaty of Alliance early in 1778, and later that year France went to war with Great Britain.

The legacy row dates an abolition of torture in extracting confessions to 24 August 1780 in Paris, but no supplied passage corroborates the measure, its date, or its location.

Louis XVI first assigned two condemned criminals to the flight, but was persuaded to let de Rozier and d'Arlandes become the first pilots.

Tethered tests preceded the free flight; the June 1783 public demonstration and the September Versailles animal flight prepared the way.

De Rozier and d'Arlandes flew a Montgolfier hot air balloon from the Château de la Muette garden on 21 November 1783, before the king.

Cardinal de Rohan was arrested on 15 August 1785 in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, the precise site of an arrest the legacy row locates in Paris, likely as the broader locality.

The Parlement of Paris refused to ratify Calonne's reform program in 1787; he was dismissed on 8 April 1787 after proposing a land tax.

Louis XVI summoned the Estates-General by royal edict dated 24 January 1789, following a suggestion from the 1787 Assembly of Notables.

On 5 May 1789 the Estates-General convened in a temporary hall in the Hôtel des Menus Plaisirs courtyard at Versailles, under 1614 etiquette.

On 13 June 1789 the Third Estate resolved to settle the powers of the three orders; on 17 June the Communes declared themselves the National Assembly.

The Estates-General ceased to exist once it became the National Assembly, renamed the National Constituent Assembly after 9 July 1789.

After the Assembly of Notables and the Parlement of Paris blocked fiscal reforms, and the Parlement was dissolved on 8 May 1788, Louis XVI turned to the Estates-General.

Louis XVI convoked the Estates-General on 8 August 1788 as a last-ditch attempt to approve new monetary reforms, setting its opening for 1 May 1789.

The Estates-General were summoned by royal edict dated 24 January 1789 and convened on 5 May 1789 in Versailles, in a temporary structure near the royal château.

Pigneau de Béhaine traveled to France in 1787 as Nguyễn Ánh's special envoy, accompanied by the lord's seven-year-old son, and reached Versailles in February 1787.

On November 21, 1787, the treaty of alliance was signed by Montmorin for France and Pigneau de Béhaine for Nguyễn Ánh, concluding an alliance with Cochinchina.

As a last-ditch attempt to approve new monetary reforms, Louis XVI convoked the Estates General on 8 August 1788, setting its opening for 1 May 1789.

In June 1789 the Third Estate unilaterally declared itself the National Assembly; Louis XVI's attempts to control it produced the Tennis Court Oath on 20 June.

Louis XVI, influenced by conservative nobles, dismissed and banished the popular finance minister Necker and reconstituted his ministry.

Shortly after Necker's dismissal, Camille Desmoulins delivered an impassioned call to arms to a crowd before the Palais-Royal.

Revolutionary insurgents stormed and seized the Bastille fortress-prison in Paris on 14 July 1789, finding only seven inmates inside.

Cardinal de Lomenie claimed clergy could be excused from the oath if they lacked mental assent.

The National Assembly voted to require clergy to sign an oath of loyalty to the Constitution on 27 November 1790.

Pope Pius VI issued the encyclical Charitas on 13 April 1791, excommunicating clergy who took the oath.

The constitution was adopted on 3 September 1791, with the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen serving as its preamble, shortly before the king's acceptance.

After the 10 August 1792 insurrection, Louis XVI and his family were confined at the Temple Prison in Paris.

The National Convention convicted Louis of high treason in a near-unanimous vote four days before his execution.

Louis XVI was publicly guillotined on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Révolution, proclaiming his innocence.

After Louis XVI's execution on 21 January 1793, royalists held the imprisoned boy to be King Louis XVII, though he never ruled.

After the Simons left in January 1794, the child was kept alone in a sealed, dark cell with no education or hygiene.

Louis-Charles died in his cell in the Temple on 8 June 1795 after two years of physical decline.