1793 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1793?
- February 1, 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
- March 18, 1793 – The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
- April 6, 1793 – During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
- 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.
- 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.
- June 24, 1793 – The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.
- July 23, 1793 – Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
- August 8, 1793 – The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.
- 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 5, 1793 – French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
- 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.
- 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 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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