1793 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1793?
- January 9, 1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
- 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.
- 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.
- June 10, 1793 – The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
- July 23, 1793 – Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
- August 8, 1793 – The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.
- 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 5, 1793 – French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
- 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 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 10, 1793 – A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Chaumette.
- 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 – Second Battle of Wissembourg: French defeat Austrians.
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