French Revolution Key Legislation

5-11 August 1789 - August Decrees

26 August 1789 - Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

2nd November 1789 - Nationalization of Church Land

December 1789 - Reform of Voting Practises

21 May 1790 - Reform of Local Administration

12 July 1790 - Civil Constitution of the Clergy

16 August 1790 - Reorganisation of the Judiciary

27 November 1790

January 1791 - New Financial System introduced

14 June 1791 - Le Chapelier Law

July 1791 - Commune declares Martial Law

27 August 1791 - Declaration of Pillnitz

14 September 1791 - Louis accepts the Constitution

27 May 1792

19 November 1792 - Decree of Fraternity

10 March - 20 May 1793 - Measures to ensure Convention survived

19 March 1793 - Summary Execution Decree

24 June 1793 - New Constitution

1 August 1793 - Brunswick Manifesto

29 September 1793 - General Maximum passed to control prices

September 1793 - Law of Suspects passed

4 December 1793 - law of 14 Frimaire / Law of Revolutionary Government

February 1794 - Laws of Ventose

10 June 1794 - Law of Prairial

22 August 1795 - Constitution of Year III

17 October 1797 - Treaty of Campo Formio

September 1798 - Jourdan's Law

12 July 1798 - Law of Hostages

Tax Reforms under Napoleon

16 July 1801 - Concordat

9 February 1801 - Treaty of Luneville with Austria

25 March 1802 - Peace of Amiens with Britain

26 December 1805 - Treaty of Pressburg with Austria

7 July 1807 - Treaty of Tilsit with Prussia and Russia

October 1809 - Treaty of Schonbrunn with Austria

30 May 1814 - first Treaty of Paris