1793

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1793 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1793
MDCCXCIII
French Republican calendar1–2
Ab urbe condita2546
Armenian calendar1242
ԹՎ ՌՄԽԲ
Assyrian calendar6543
Balinese saka calendar1714–1715
Bengali calendar1200
Berber calendar2743
British Regnal year33 Geo. 3 – 34 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2337
Burmese calendar1155
Byzantine calendar7301–7302
Chinese calendar壬子(Water Rat)
4489 or 4429
    — to —
癸丑年 (Water Ox)
4490 or 4430
Coptic calendar1509–1510
Discordian calendar2959
Ethiopian calendar1785–1786
Hebrew calendar5553–5554
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1849–1850
 - Shaka Samvat1714–1715
 - Kali Yuga4893–4894
Holocene calendar11793
Igbo calendar793–794
Iranian calendar1171–1172
Islamic calendar1207–1208
Japanese calendarKansei 5
(寛政5年)
Javanese calendar1719–1720
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4126
Minguo calendar119 before ROC
民前119年
Nanakshahi calendar325
Thai solar calendar2335–2336
Tibetan calendar阳水鼠年
(male Water-Rat)
1919 or 1538 or 766
    — to —
阴水牛年
(female Water-Ox)
1920 or 1539 or 767
January 21: Louis XVI of France, is guillotined in Paris.

1793 (MDCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1793rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 793rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 93rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1793, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

The French Republic introduced the French Revolutionary Calendar starting with the year I.

Events[]

January–June[]

  • January 7 – The Ebel riot occurs in Sweden.
  • January 9Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first to fly in a gas balloon in the United States.
  • January 13Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, a representative of Revolutionary France, is lynched by a mob in Rome.
  • January 21French Revolution: After being found guilty of treason by the French National Convention, Citizen Capet, Louis XVI of France, is guillotined in Paris.[1]
  • January 23Second Partition of Poland: The Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia partition the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
  • February – In Manchester, Vermont, the wife of a captain falls ill, probably with tuberculosis. Some locals believe that the cause of her illness is that a demon vampire is sucking her blood. As a cure, Timothy Mead burns the heart of a deceased person in front of a crowd of a few hundred people.[2]
  • February 1French Revolutionary Wars: The French First Republic declares war on Great Britain, the Dutch Republic and (on March 7) Spain.[3] During the year, the War of the First Coalition is joined by Portugal, the Holy Roman Empire, Naples and Tuscany in opposition to France.
  • February 11French expedition to Sardinia (Expédition de Sardaigne): A French fleet under admiral Laurent Truguet debarks troops near Cagliari in Sardinia.
  • February 22 – French expedition to Sardinia: A small French and Corsican force briefly occupies the small Sardinian island of La Maddalena, then withdraws to Corsica. 23-year-old lieutenant Napoleon Buonaparte is second-in-command.
  • February 25George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States.
  • February 27 – The Giles Resolutions are introduced to the United States House of Representatives, asking the House to condemn Alexander Hamilton's handling of loans.
  • March 13John Langdon serves as President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
  • March 4George Washington is sworn in as President of the United States in Philadelphia, for his second term.[4]
  • March 5 – French troops are defeated by Austrian forces, and Liège is recaptured.
  • March 18
    • Second Battle of Neerwinden: A coalition army of Habsburg Monarchy and Dutch Republic troops repulses attacks from French Republican forces, near Neerwinden, Flemish Brabant.
    • The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
  • April 6French Revolutionary Wars: The Committee of Public Safety is established in France, with Georges Danton as its head.
  • April 9Edmond-Charles Genêt, France's new Minister to the United States, arrives at Charleston, South Carolina. [4]
  • April 22George Washington signs the Neutrality Proclamation.[4]
  • April 25 – The pioneer parishes of New Orleans and Louisiana are erected, as well as incorporated into the Diocese of Louisiana and the Two Floridas.
  • May 25French expedition to Sardinia: The last French troops occupying the small Sardinian island of San Pietro surrender to a Spanish fleet.
  • May 31French Revolution: Regular troops under François Hanriot demand that the Girondins be expelled from the National Convention.
  • June – The Macartney Embassy, a British diplomatic mission to China led by George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, reaches Canton, but will be rebuffed by the Qianlong Emperor.[3]
  • June 2French Revolution: The Girondins are overthrown in France.
  • June 10French Revolution: The Jardin des Plantes and the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle are created by the National Convention. The museum opens in Paris the following year, and the garden houses one of the first public zoos.
  • June 21 – The town of Hamilton, Massachusetts, is incorporated.[5]

July–December[]

  • July 9 – The Act Against Slavery is passed in Upper Canada.
  • July 13French Revolution: Charlotte Corday kills Jean-Paul Marat in his bath.
  • July 17French Revolution: Charlotte Corday is executed.
  • July 20 – Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie's 1792–1793 Peace River expedition to the Pacific Ocean reaches its goal at Bella Coola, British Columbia, making him the first known person to complete a transcontinental crossing of northern North America.
  • July 29John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
  • July 31Oulu Castle was destroyed in an explosion following the burning of a powder cellar.[6]
  • August - France decrees all the slaves on Saint-Domingue to be free.
  • August 1–November 9 – The yellow fever epidemic of 1793 hits Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 5,000 die.
  • August 10French Revolution – Feast of Unity
    • Crowds in Paris burn monarchist emblems.
    • The Louvre in Paris opens to the public as an art museum.
  • August 23French Revolution: The following universal conscription decree is enacted in France: "The young men shall go to battle and the married men shall forge arms. The women shall make tents and clothes and shall serve in the hospitals; children shall tear rags into lint. The old men will be guided to the public places of the cities to kindle the courage of the young warriors and to preach the unity of the Republic and the hatred of kings."
  • September 5French Revolution: The National Convention begins the 10-month Reign of Terror.
  • September 8 – The first Círio de Nazaré is celebrated in Belém.
  • September 17 – The Army of the Eastern Pyrenees, one of the French Revoluntionary armies, defeats a Spanish force at the Battle of Peyrestortes.
  • September 18 – The cornerstone to the future United States Capitol is dedicated by U.S. President Washington at the site of the new Federal City on the Potomac River.[4]
  • September 20 – British troops from Jamaica land on the island of Saint-Domingue to join the Haitian Revolution in opposition to the French Republic and its newly-freed slaves; on 22 September the main French naval base on the island surrenders peacefully to the Royal Navy.[7][8]
  • October 5War of the First Coalition: Raid on Genoa – The British Royal Navy boards and captures French warships, sheltering in the neutral port of Genoa.
  • October 1516 – War of the First Coalition: Battle of Wattignies – A French Republican force commanded by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan compels a Habsburg Austrian Coalition army to retire.
October 16: Marie Antoinette's execution
  • October 16French Revolution: Marie Antoinette, the widowed queen consort of Louis XVI of France, is guillotined in the Place de la Révolution in Paris at the conclusion of a 2-day trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal.
  • October 24French Revolution:The French Republican Calendar is adopted by the National Convention.
  • November 10 – The dechristianization of France during the French Revolution reaches a climax with the celebration of the Goddess of Reason in the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris.
  • November 12French Revolution: Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
  • December 8French Revolution: Madame du Barry is guillotined.
  • December 9 – New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
  • December 18 – French forces under Dugommier capture Toulon from royalists and British forces under Vice Admiral Lord Hood. The British fire the dockyards and take 16 ships, one of which, the Lutine, becomes a famous treasure ship.
  • December 23French Revolution: War in the Vendée: Battle of Savenay – A Republican force decisively defeats the counterrevolutionary Catholic and Royal Army, ending the Virée de Galerne.

Undated[]

  • Eli Whitney invents a cotton gin. This causes a resurgence of slavery in the South.
  • Lawrence Academy (Groton, Massachusetts) is chartered. [9]
  • Dominique Jean Larrey, chief surgeon of the French Revolutionary Army, creates the first battlefield "flying ambulance" service.
  • The Al Bu Falah move to Abu Dhabi.
  • The first year of regular production begins for the United States Mint, and the half cent is minted for the first time.
  • Niccolò Paganini debuts as a violin virtuoso at age 11 in his birthplace of Genoa.

Births[]

Sam Houston
Ferdinand I of Austria
  • January 3Lucretia Mott, American women's rights activist and abolitionist (d. 1880)
  • January 11Johanna Stegen, German heroine (d. 1842)
  • January 14Wojciech Chrzanowski, Polish general (d. 1861)
  • March 2Sam Houston, American President of the Republic of Texas (d. 1863)[10]
  • March 3William Macready, English actor (d. 1873)
  • March 4Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
  • March 6William Dick, Scottish veterinarian, founder of Edinburgh Veterinary College (d. 1866)
  • April 8Karl Ludwig Hencke, German astronomer (d. 1866)
  • April 19 – Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)[11]
  • June 6Edward C. Delavan, American temperance movement leader (d. 1871)
  • June 29Josef Ressel, German-Bohemian inventor (d. 1857)
  • July 13John Clare, English "peasant poet" (d. 1864)[12]
  • July 15Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, American educator, scientist and writer (d. 1884)[13]
  • July 18Maria Caroline Gibert de Lametz, French stage actress, later Princess Consort and regent de facto of Monaco (d. 1879)
  • August 19Barthélemy Thimonnier, French inventor (d. 1857)
  • August 25John Neal, American writer, critic, and women's rights activist (d. 1876)[14]
  • September 5John L. Burns, American veteran of the War of 1812, civilian combatant for the Union Army during the American Civil War. (d. 1872)
  • September 25Felicia Hemans, British poet (d. 1835)[15]
  • November 3Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (d. 1836)
  • November 17Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter (d. 1865)[16]
  • Approximate date – Sarah Booth, English actress (d. 1867)

Deaths[]

Louis XVI of France
John Hancock
Marie Antoinette

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