page_title: Timeline of Paris
section_title: 1780s–1790s – The French Revolution
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Paris / 18th century / 1780s–1790s – The French Revolution
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Paris, France.
context_section_description: 1780
  Closing of the 12th century cemetery of the Saints-Innocents. The church was closed in 1786 and demolished the following year.
  1781
  First sidewalks in Paris constructed on rue de l'Odéon.
  1782
  Amphithéâtre Anglais, the first purpose-built circus in France, opens.
  Construction begins of the Hôtel de Salm, finished in 1784. After the Revolution of 1789, it became the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur.
  1783
  Royal decrees requiring a relation between the height of buildings and the width of the street, and declaring that new streets must be at least thirty feet (about ten meters) wide.
  3 September – Treaty of Paris signed at 56 rue Jacob by Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, John Adams and Henry Laurens for the United States and David Hartley for Britain, ending the American Revolution. 
  21 November – The first manned free flight in a balloon launched by the Montgolfier brothers, between the parc de la Muette and the Butte-aux-Cailles.
  École des Mines established.
  1784 – Wall of the Farmers-General construction begins.
  1786
  Galerie de bois (shopping arcade) opens in the Palais-Royal.
  8 June – A decree of the Prévôt de Paris authorized caterers and chefs to establish restaurants and to serve clients until eleven in the evening in winter and midnight in summer.
  The first restaurant in the modern sense, the Taverne anglaise, is opened by Antoine Beauvilliers in the arcade of the Palais-Royal.
  Construction begins of a large steam-powered pump at Gros-Caillou, on the Quai d'Orsay, to provide drinking water from the Seine for the population of the left bank.
  September – A royal edict orders the demolition of houses built on the Paris bridges and on some of the quays. The edict was carried out in 1788.
  1787
  The duc d'Orléans sells spaces in the arcades of the Palais-Royal which are occupied by cafés, restaurants and shops.
  Construction approved of the Pont Louis XVI, now Pont de la Concorde.
  1788
  13 July – Devastating hail storms accompanied by strong winds of a force rarely seen, following a path from the southwest of France to the north, destroyed crops, orchards, killed farm animals, tore roofs and toppled steeples. In Paris, the faubourg Saint-Antoine was hardest hit. It caused a major increase in bread prices, and the migration of thousands of peasants into Paris.
  16 August – The French state becomes bankrupt, and begins issuing paper money to pay for pensions, rents and the salaries of soldiers. Large-scale demonstrations and civil disorders begin. 
  Société des Amis des Noirs founded.
  1789
  12–19 May – Paris elects deputies to the Estates-General, a legislative assembly summoned by Louis XVI to raise funds.
  12 July – Parisians respond to the dismissal of the King's reformist minister, Necker, with civil disturbances. Confrontations between Royal-Allemand Dragoon Regiment and a crowd of protestors on Place Louis XV, and Sunday strollers in the Tuileries gardens. Mobs storm the city armories and take weapons. In the evening, the new customs barriers around the city are burned.
  14 July – Storming of the Bastille, a symbol of royal authority, releasing seven prisoners. The governor of the Bastille surrenders and is lynched by the crowd.
  15 July – The astronomer Jean Sylvain Bailly is chosen Mayor of Paris at the Hôtel de Ville.
  17 July – King Louis XVI comes to the Hôtel de Ville and accepts a tricolor cocarde.
  5–6 October – The royal family is forced to move from Versailles to Paris.
  19 October – The deputies of the National Assembly move from Versailles to Paris, first to the residence of the Archbishop, then, on 9 November, to the Manège of the Tuileries Palace.
  Théâtre Feydeau founded.
  1790
  14 July – The Fête de la Fédération, celebrating the first anniversary of the Revolution.
  1791
  3 April – The church of Sainte-Geneviève is transformed into the Panthéon. Mirabeau is the first famous Frenchman to have his tomb placed there on April 4, followed by Voltaire on 11 July.
  20–21 June – The King and his family flee Paris, but are captured at Varennes and brought back on 25 June.
  17 July – A large demonstration on the Champ de Mars deman
caption: First use of a frameless parachute from a Montgolfier balloon over Paris by André Garnerin in 1797
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