* 1786 – French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convened.

To obtain new money to head off default on the government's loans, the king called an Assembly of Notables in 1787.

Faced with opposition from the parlements, Calonne organised the summoning of the Assembly of Notables.

" Necker convened a Second Assembly of Notables, which rejected the notion of double representation by a vote of 111 to 333.

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.

The continuing deterioration of the financial situation in France – despite the fact that cutbacks in the royal retinue had been made – ultimately forced the king, in collaboration with his current Minister of Finance, Calonne, to call the Assembly of Notables, after a hiatus of 160 years.

The continued poor financial climate of the country resulted in the 25 May dissolution of the Assembly of Notables because of its inability to get things done.

Again this failed, so Louis convoked the Assembly of Notables in 1787 to discuss a revolutionary new fiscal reform proposed by Calonne.

In November 1788, a second Assembly of Notables was convened by Jacques Necker, to consider the makeup of the next Estates-General.

Vergennes died just before the meeting of the Assembly of Notables, which he is said to have suggested to Louis XVI.

Back in France in 1788, Lafayette was called to the Assembly of Notables to respond to the fiscal crisis.

King Louis XVI convoked the Assembly of Notables on 29 December 1786, in response to France's fiscal crisis.

The " Grand Sanhedrin " was a Jewish high court convened by Napoleon I to give legal sanction to the principles expressed by the Assembly of Notables in answer to the twelve questions submitted to it by the government ( see Jew.

On October 6, 1806, the Assembly of Notables issued a proclamation to all the Jewish communities of Europe, inviting them to send delegates to the Sanhedrin, to convene on October 20.

* December 29: The Assembly of Notables is convoked

* February 22: First Assembly of Notables meets against a background of state financial instability and general resistance by the nobility to the imposition of taxes and fiscal reforms.

* May 25: The first Assembly of Notables is dissolved

* November 6: Necker convenes a second Assembly of Notables to discuss the Estates-General

* December 12: The second Assembly of Notables is dismissed, having firmly refused to consider doubling the representation of the Third Estate

As Fénelon had wished in former days, an Assembly of Notables in 1787 ( which already displayed great independence ) preceded the Estates-General session.

At the Assembly of Notables in 1787, Philippe was very vocal in the anti-royalist, Enlightenment ideas, leading to suspicions that he was plotting to displace Louis XVI.

In 1787 he was nominated as president of the Assembly of Notables, in which capacity he attacked the fiscal policy of Calonne, whom he succeeded as head of the conseil des finances ( finance minister ) on 1 May 1787.

He was made a grandee of Spain and, in 1787, he was elected to the Assembly of Notables.

In 1560, at the Assembly of Notables at Fontainebleau, the hostility between Coligny and François of Guise broke forth violently.

The ACT Chief Minister ( currently Katy Gallagher, Australian Labor Party ) is elected by members of the ACT Assembly.

* 1789 – In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.

The Legislature consists of the Queen ( represented by the Governor ) and a unicameral House of Assembly made up of 13 elected members plus the Speaker and the Attorney-General.

The National Assembly has 57 elected and 4 appointed members ; it is expanded following each census ( every 10 years ).

This infuriated the elected members of the Legislative Assembly as they maintained that the Governor and the United Kingdom had put into question the Cayman Islands ' reputation as a tightly regulated offshore jurisdiction.

The CLP dominated the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from its establishment in 1978 to 2001, but lost Government in 2001 and was reduced to four parliamentary members in 2005.

After the 1974 federal election and subsequent Joint Sitting of parliament, legislation was passed to create a unicameral Legislative Assembly, as well as members with full voting rights at a federal level.

The loss marked a major turning point in Northern Territory politics, a result which was exacerbated when, at the 2005 NT election, the ALP won a second landslide victory, reducing the once-dominant party to a total of just four members in the Legislative Assembly. The 2008 saw the CLP reverse its earlier election losses, increasing its representation from four to 11 members.

In 2001, all graduates of the Ziegler School were formally admitted as members of the Rabbinical Assembly.

Under the pretext that new elections could not be held in Communist-occupied constituencies, the National Assembly, Legislative Yuan, and Control Yuan members held their posts indefinitely.

On 14 June, 2012, the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt ordered the People's Assembly to be dissolved, citing irregularities in the election of members.

In May 2011, members of the country's Legislative Assembly including its president Sigfrido Reyes presented a proposal to the Cabinet to issue a statement formally recognising the State of Palestine.

The British, faced with a deadline for leaving, held elections on March 16, 1952, for a representative Assembly of 68 members, evenly divided between Christians and Muslims.

The government was reorganized and the National Assembly was expanded to include both EPLF and non-EPLF members.

Bhutto was shocked with the results, and threatened his Peoples Party's members if they attended the inaugural session at the National Assembly.

General elections must take place at least once every four years, in which the islanders elect eight members to the Legislative Assembly ( five from Stanley and three from Camp ) through universal suffrage using block voting.

There are also two ex officio members of the Assembly ( the Chief Executive and the Director of Finance ) who take part in proceedings but are not permitted to vote in the Assembly.

The Committee consist of two elected members of the Legislative Assembly ( appointed by the Governor on the advice of the Legislative Assembly ), the Chief Executive, the Attorney General and the Chief Medical Officer.

There is also a Public Accounts Committee consisting of a chairman and two other members appointed by the Governor ( in consultation with the elected MLAs ) and two elected members of the Legislative Assembly.

The Legislative Assembly has ten members, eight of which are elected using block voting ( five from the Stanley constituency and three from the Camp constituency ) and two ex officio members ( the Chief Executive and the Director of Finance ).