In February 1787 his finance minister, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, convened an Assembly of Notables, a group of nobles, clergy, bourgeoisie, and bureaucrats selected in order to bypass the local parliaments.

This group was asked to approve a new land tax that would, for the first time, include a tax on the property of nobles and clergy.

Soon, the right to choose the monarch was settled on an exclusive group of princes, and the procedure of seeking the approval of the remaining nobles was abandoned.

As the result of the battle, the Seven Boyars, a group of Russian nobles, deposed the tsar Vasily Shuysky on, and recognized the Polish prince Władysław IV Vasa as the Tsar of Russia on.

* 1444 – Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë.

This group moved easily between Welsh and English societies and languages, occupying important offices for the Marcher Lords while maintaining their position as uchelwyr — nobles descended from the pre-conquest Welsh royal dynasties — in traditional Welsh society.

The Prussian Confederation (, ) was an organization formed in 1440 by a group of 53 nobles and clergy and 19 cities in Prussia to oppose the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights.

On 14 March 1440, a group of 53 nobles and clergy and 19 Prussian cities, under the leadership of the Hanseatic cities of Danzig ( Gdańsk ), Elbing ( Elbląg ), and Thorn ( Toruń ), founded the Prussian Confederation in Marienwerder ( Kwidzyn ).

In December, a small group of nobles assassinated Rasputin and in January 1917 the Tsar's uncle, Grand Duke Nicholas, was asked indirectly by Prince Lvov whether he would be prepared to take over the throne from his nephew, Tsar Nicholas II.

A group of nobles, led by Lithuanian magnates including Duke Michael Wiśniowiecki ( the former Lithuanian grand chancellor nominated by Augustus II ), crossed the Vistula River to Praga and the protection of Russian troops.

In September 935 ( in older sources 929 ) a group of nobles — allied with Wenceslaus ' younger brother Boleslav — plotted to kill the prince.

One of the few untitled servitors of George III to escape this fate was the treasurer Qutlu Arslan who now led a group of nobles and wealthy citizens in a struggle to limit the royal authority by creating a new council, karavi, whose members would alone deliberate and decide policy.

* A group of Hungarian nobles help Charles III of Naples to overthrow Queen Mary as ruler of Hungary and Croatia.

The Staufens, in addition to claiming the private Salian lands which clearly fell to them, also claimed all of the crown lands gained under Henry IV and Henry V. Lothair's attempts to seize the crown lands following approval from a group of nobles meeting in Regensburg provoked Staufen reaction.

In 1320, the Declaration of Arbroath was sent by a group of Scottish nobles to the Pope affirming Scottish independence from England.

Edward III also had the support of a group of Scottish nobles, led by Balliol and Henry Beaumont, known as the ' Disinherited.

' This group of nobles had supported the English in the First War and, after Bannockburn, Robert the Bruce had given them a year to return to his peace.

In 1252, a group of nobles that could witness and support deeds, known as consuls et cives Solodorenses, first appears in the town.

* The Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia has a crown, presented to Prince Philippe of Araucania in 1986 by a group of Araucanian nobles.

As a result, Balash was removed by a group of nobles and priests and Kavadh was installed as emperor.

Following the death of Bahram II in 293 CE, Bahram III was proclaimed king in Fārs by a group of nobles led by Wahnam and supported by Adurfarrobay, King of Mesan.

In March 1560 a group of disaffected nobles ( led by Jean du Barry, seigneur de la Renaudie ) attempted to abduct the young Francis II and eliminate the Guise faction.

He subsequently joined the Lords of the Congregation, a group of Protestant nobles who were against the marriage of the young, Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots, to the Dauphin of France ( later to become Francois II of France ), but betrayed their plans.

A number of Persian nobles discovered that their new ruler was an impostor, and a group of seven nobles formed a plot to kill him.

John of Worcester says that the group supporting Edgar vacillated over what to do while William ravaged the countryside, which led to Ealdred and Edgar's submission to William.

As the two couples began supporting each other during recording sessions, the sound of the girls ' voices convinced the songwriters to model their ' group ' on the like of MOR acts Blue Mink, Middle of the Road and The Sweet.

* Bidirectional Scripts in Desktop Software Working group for supporting BiDi in Free Software.

For example, the Bourbaki group adopted a watered-down and selective version of it as adequate to the requirements of their twin projects of ( a ) writing encyclopedic foundational works, and ( b ) supporting the axiomatic method as a research tool.

Although the Republican Party and Democratic Party chapters in Puerto Rico have selected voting delegates to the national nominating conventions since the early 1900s, public interest in these processes heightened as a result of the efforts of a group of Democratic statehooders led by Franklin Delano López in 1976 to elect delegates supporting former Georgia Gov.

* Maemo, MeeGo – Qt for Maemo, merged with Moblin to MeeGo ; many applications are already written for Maemo based on the prior Internet tablets ; the Nokia N900 also supports Qt ; the Forum Nokia Wiki has quality-controlled articles supporting Qt development ; mhe Maemo has a development group on Forum Nokia Wiki at Forum Nokia Wiki Maemo.

The 2010 video game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker includes a fictional group of FSLN Revolutionaries forced into Costa Rica as an important group of supporting characters.

gigs performed at The Casbah gave the Undertones increased confidence in their musical ability, and in June 1977 they performed concerts outside of Derry for the first time, supporting a Dublin punk group named The Radiators from Space.

The group soon disbanded after several lineup changes throughout the supporting tour, which began with Reni first departing, followed by Squire.

This group split in 1908, with the majority supporting DeLeon and a minority around E. J.

Boston has an active Critical Mass ride and MassBike is a bike advocacy group active in supporting cyclists in the area.

It is essential however, to note that within the first group, those who agree the Battle was of macrohistorical importance, there are a number of historians who take a more moderate and nuanced approach to supporting the battle's importance, rather than the more dramatic rhetoric of Gibbon.

He had achieved some fame by this time and exhibited with Kandinsky ’ s Der Blaue Reiter group in 1912, supporting himself through his art.

* USA based group supporting dwarfism through research

This group remembered significantly less information and some of them incorrectly remembered the results as supporting ESP.

In the summer of 1985, the group toured the United States and Canada for the first time, supporting Killing Is My Business ... with Exciter.

* The Metagovernment project – Global umbrella group supporting development and implementation of Internet-based governance software

The group consists of an integrated military, civilian and contractor team with more than 250 personnel directly supporting operations from the Western Range.

The City of Carver created the Heritage Preservation Commission in 1989 as a supporting group of appointees to aid the City Council and Planning Commission on historic preservation issues.

Two groups emerged in the community: " Save our Schools and Community ", a group supporting construction of a new school, and " Concerned Citizens for Lyle's Future ", a group opposing the construction of a new school in favor of other less expensive solutions.

In January 2007, a group of residents organized a petition supporting dissolution of the village for tax reasons.

Lydon disbanded the group a year later after Virgin Records refused to pay for the tour supporting the album, and Lydon had to pay for it out of his own pocket.