Why does France celebrate Bastille Day on July 14?

Bastille Day is celebrated every year on July 14 to commemorate the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789, which sparked the French Revolution. The Bastille symbolised the monarchy's oppression. As people suffered economic hardship under King Louis XVI, rumours spread that his troops would attack Parisians. A crowd then stormed the prison in search of weapons and captured it.