1793 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1793?
- January 21, 1793 – After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
- January 23, 1793 – Second Partition of Poland: Russia and Prussia partition Poland for the second time.
- February 1, 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
- April 6, 1793 – During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
- June 10, 1793 – French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
- July 22, 1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
- July 23, 1793 – Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
- August 10, 1793 – The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France.
- August 12, 1793 – The Rhône and Loire (Lêre) départments are created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two.
- August 16, 1793 – French Revolution: a levée en masse is decreed by the National Convention.
- August 27, 1793 – French counter-revolution: the port of Toulon revolts and admits the British fleet, which lands troops and seizes the port leading to Siege of Toulon.
- September 8, 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.
- September 18, 1793 – The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
- October 12, 1793 – The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina
- October 16, 1793 – The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory.
- November 3, 1793 – French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
- December 9, 1793 – New York City’s first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
- December 23, 1793 – The Battle of Savenay, decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in Revolt in the Vendée during the French Revolution.
- December 26, 1793 – Second Battle of Wissembourg: French defeat Austrians.
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