King Louis XVI?

Question

what are the ten most important events of his life?

details please

Answer 1

Louis XVI (23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793), born Louis-Auguste, ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1792. Suspended and arrested during the 10th of August 1792 Insurrection, he was tried by the National Convention, found guilty of treason, and executed on 21 January 1793.

Although he was beloved at first, his indecisiveness and conservatism led some elements of the people of France to eventually hate him as a symbol of the perceived tyranny of the Ancien Régime. After the abolition of the monarchy in 1792, the new republican government gave him the surname Capet, a reference to the nickname of Hugh Capet, founder of the Capetian dynasty, which the revolutionaries wrongly interpreted as a family name. He was also informally nicknamed Louis le Dernier (Louis the Last), a derisive use of the traditional nicknaming of French kings. Today, historians and Frenchmen in general have a more nuanced view of Louis XVI, who is seen as an honest man with good intentions, but who was probably unfit for the herculean task of reforming the monarchy, and who was used as a scapegoat by the revolutionaries.

Answer 2

The last important event in his life is that he was beheaded.

Answer 3

Born August, 1754

Became Dauphin upon the death of his father, December, 1765

Married Marie Antoinette, May 1770

Became King in May, 1774

Convened the Estates-General, May 1789

Start of French Revolution, June, 1789

Taken from Versailles to live in the Tuileries, October, 1789

Tried to escape from Paris and was captured, June 1791

Monarchy abolished, Sept, 1792

Tried and convicted of treason, beheaded, January 21, 1793