Complex sentence: Shortly after the storming of the Bastille, on 4 August feudalism was abolished and on 26 August, the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" was proclaimed.
Split into simpler sentences: Shortly after the storming of the Bastille, on 4 August, feudalism was abolished. On 26 August, the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" was proclaimed.