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Necker is recalled. Troops advancing toward Paris and Versailles are withdrawn. July 16, 1789

Necker is dismissed. July 11, 1789

The King concedes and orders the Nobles and the Clergy to join the National Assembly. June 27, 1789

Louis XVI makes various proposals for reform but continues to demand that each Estate be able to cast one vote. The Third Estate rejects this proposal. June 23, 1789

Accepting the proposition of the delegate Abbé Sieyès, the Third Estate proclaims itself "The National Assembly." It invites the other two Orders to join in this new body of the nation. June 17, 1789

Election of representatives to the Estates–General. One of the traditions of the Estates–General was to request cahiers de doléances or lists of grievances from the realm. In accordance with this tradition, the drawing up of the cahiers had been officially decreed on 24 January. (The cahiers number in the thousands and constitute one of our richest sources of historical information about late eighteenth–century France.) February 1789

Second Assembly of Notables (dissolved 12 December 1788). October 5, 1788

Parlement of Paris demands the "forms of 1614." September 25, 1788

Jacques Necker, a Swiss citizen and a Protestant, replaces Loménie de Brienne with the title of Director General of Finances; he attempts once again to solve the financial crisis and to devise a plan for a successful meeting of the Estates–General. August 24, 1788

The assembly of the three orders of Dauphiné at Vizille. July 21, 1788

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