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.
- March 18, 1793 – The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
- May 15, 1793 – Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for “about 360 meters”, at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted .
- June 2, 1793 – French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.
- July 22, 1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
- August 8, 1793 – The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.
- August 10, 1793 – The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France.
- 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.
- 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 15, 1793 – Queen Marie-Antoinette of France is tried and convicted in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day.
- 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.
- November 9, 1793 – William Carey reaches the Hooghly River.
- November 10, 1793 – A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Chaumette.
- November 12, 1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
- December 9, 1793 – New York City’s first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
- December 18, 1793 – Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
- 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 – The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place.
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