Louis XVI (as King of France)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Louis_XVI_(as_King_of_France)
GPTKB entity
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:King
gptkbp:birthDate 23 August 1754
gptkbp:birthName gptkb:Louis-Auguste
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Palace_of_Versailles
gptkbp:burialPlace gptkb:Basilica_of_Saint-Denis
gptkbp:causeOfDeath execution by guillotine
gptkbp:children gptkb:Marie_Thérèse_of_France
gptkb:Louis_XVII
gptkb:Louis_Charles
gptkb:Sophie_Hélène_Béatrice
gptkbp:coronationDate gptkb:Reims_Cathedral
11 June 1775
gptkbp:deathDate 21 January 1793
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Place_de_la_Révolution,_Paris
gptkbp:deathYear 38
gptkbp:dynasty Bourbon
gptkbp:executedBy gptkb:French_Revolution
guillotine
gptkbp:father gptkb:Louis,_Dauphin_of_France
gptkbp:house gptkb:House_of_Bourbon
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Louis XVI (as King of France)
gptkbp:knownFor execution by guillotine
attempted reforms
support for the American Revolution
last King of France before the fall of the monarchy
gptkbp:monarchNumber gptkb:King_Louis_XVI
gptkbp:mother gptkb:Maria_Josepha_of_Saxony
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:French
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:American_Revolutionary_War
gptkb:Flight_to_Varennes
gptkb:Women's_March_on_Versailles
gptkb:Storming_of_the_Bastille
gptkb:Estates-General_of_1789
Abolition of the monarchy
Trial and execution
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Edict_of_Versailles_(1787)
abolition of the death penalty for deserters (1789)
abolition of labor tax (1789)
abolition of serfdom in France (1789)
abolition of the corvée (1789)
abolition of the salt tax (1789)
gptkbp:predecessor gptkb:Louis_XV
gptkbp:reignEnd 21 September 1792
gptkbp:reignStart 10 May 1774
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Roman_Catholicism
gptkbp:signature Louis XVI signature.svg
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Marie_Antoinette
gptkbp:style gptkb:His_Most_Christian_Majesty
gptkbp:successor gptkb:Louis_XVII_(nominally)
gptkbp:title gptkb:King_of_France_and_Navarre
gptkb:King_of_the_French_(1791–1792)
Holy Roman Emperor
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Napoleon_I
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5