1793 - What happened in 1793 ?

January 1793

Wednesday 02:

Russia and Prussia partition Poland.

Wednesday 09:

Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first to fly in a balloon in the United States.

Monday 21:

Russia and Prussia partition Poland.

February 1793

Friday 01:

France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

Monday 25:

George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States.

Wednesday 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 1793

Tuesday 05:

French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured.

June 1793

Sunday 02:

Jean Paul Marat recites the names of 29 people to the French National Convention. Almost all of these are guillotined, followed by 17,000 more over the course of the next year during the Reign of Terror.

Monday 10:

French Revolution: Following arrests of Girondin leaders the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.

Monday 24:

First republican constitution in France adopted.

July 1793

Tuesday 09:

Act Against Slavery passed in Upper Canada and importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.

Saturday 13:

Jean Paul Marat, one of the leaders of the French revolution, is murdered by Charlotte Corday.

Monday 22:

Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing north of Mexico.

Monday 29:

John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.

August 1793

Friday 23:

French Revolution: a levée en masse was decreed by the National Convention.

September 1793

Thursday 05:

In France, the French National Convention votes to implement terror measures to enforce the principles of the French Revolution, initiating the Reign of Terror.

October 1793

Saturday 05:

French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.

Saturday 12:

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

Wednesday 16:

1793 - Battle of Wattignies

November 1793

Sunday 03:

French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges was guillotined.

Friday 08:

In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum.

December 1793

Monday 09:

New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster

Thursday 26:

Wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz