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| 1756 |
| | | In what becomes known as the Diplomatic Revolution, two of Europe's long-standing rivals - France and Austria - sign a treaty of alliance | |
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| 1778 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin persuades the French to sign a Treaty of Alliance, committing France to the US cause | |
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| 1778 |
| | | France, joining the American colonies in their fight against Britain, sends a large fleet across the Atlantic | |
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| 1778 |
| | | The British rapidly abandon Philadelphia on news of the expected arrival of a French fleet | |
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| c. 1783 |
| | | Some 40,000 Loyalists flee from British America to the previously French colonies, in particular Nova Scotia | |
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| 1785 |
| | | The French queen Marie Antoinette is wrongly implicated in a scandal involving a diamond necklace | |
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| 1787 |
| | | The French finance minister, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, is dismissed when his proposed reforms meet aristocratic opposition | |
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| 1788 |
| | | The ministers of Louis XVI reluctantly announce that the estates general will meet in 1789, for the first time since 1614 | |
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| 1789 |
| | | A pamphlet published in France by Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès asks a challenging question, What is the Third Estate? | |
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| 1789 |
| | | A left-wing political club begins to meet in a Jacobin convent in Paris, thus becoming known as the Jacobins | |
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