What is the event which took place in 14 July 1789 ?
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– The Third Estate, with representatives from the commoners, reconstituted itself as the National Assembly on June 17, 1789, a body whose purpose was the creation of a French constitution.
– The King initially opposed that development but was forced to acknowledge the authority of the Assembly, which renamed itself the National Constituent Assembly on July 9, 1789.
– Louis XVI, acting under the influence of the conservative nobles of his privy council, dismissed and banished his finance minister, Jacques Necker, on July 11, 1789.
– News of Necker’s dismissal reached Paris on the afternoon of Sunday, July 12, 1789, and the Parisians generally presumed that the dismissal marked the start of a coup by conservative elements.
– The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, on July 14, 1789, when revolutionary insurgents attempted to storm and seize control of the medieval armor, fortress and political prison known as the Bastille.