Causes Of The Revolution
1775-1783: France spends vast sums of money aiding the American colonists fighting the British in the course of the American revloution
1786: Calonne attempts to introduce tax reforms
1787: The assembly of notables (made up of nobles and senior churchmen) rejects calonne's proposals to extend and rerom taxation
1788: The desion is made to hold a meeting of the estates ganeral
1789: Riots break out in Paris and the country side, the estates general assembles in the royal place at versailles