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Leopold II’s Padua Circular. July 10, 1791

Ligurian republic set up at Genoa by France. June 15, 1797

Liquidation of the public debt by two–thirds with a system of coupons that, by the end of the December, in effect, simply invalidates two–thirds of what is owed to various public creditors. September 1797

Louis XVI accepts the constitution. September 14, 1791

Louis XVI becomes king. May 10, 1774

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

Louis XVI removes the Count of Narbonne, Minister of War. All of his other ministers resign. Louis forms a new government, composed mostly of Jacobins. March 10, 1792

Louis XVI secretly explores a possible coalition with foreign powers to end the Revolution. October 1790

Louis XVI vetoes decrees against émigrés, and refractory priests proposed by the Legislative Assembly. November 9, 1791

Louis XVII, son of Louis XVI and heir to the throne, dies in the Temple. The declaration of Verona put punishment of the regicides and reestablishment of the orders of society on the agenda for the Bourbon’s return. June 8, 1795