Timeline: Revolution and failure of constitutional Monarchy 1789-1793

Timeline France 1789-1793

1789

20 July:start of great fear

• 4 August: decrees dismantling feudalism passed
• 26 August:Declaration of rights of man and the citizen
• August: tithes, annates and pluralism abolished
• 5-6 October: October days
• 2 November: church property nationalised

1790

• 26 February: 83 new departments were created for local administration
• February: decree distinguished between monastic orders based upon role in community
• March: abolition of Gabelle
• April: government converted assignats into paper money for use in a transactions
• 21 May:creation of paris sections
• 12 July:civil constitution of clergy
• 16 August reorganisation of judiciary
• October: internal tariffs abolished
• 27 Novemeber: decree demanding clergy…