1793

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s

Years: 1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 - 1793 - 1794 1795 1796 1797 1798

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Events

• January 9 - Jean-Pierre Blanchard[?] becomes the first to fly in a balloon in the United States.
• January 21 - After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention[?], Louis XVI of France is guillotined.
• January 2 - Russia and Prussia partition Poland
• February 1 - France declares war on England, the Netherlands.
• February 25 - George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States.
• March 5 - French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liege is recaptured.

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1793 in literature:

Births

• January 3 - Lucretia Mott, women's rights activist and abolitionist
• March 2 - Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas (+ 1863)
• March 4 - Karl Lachmann, philologist (+ 1851).
• April 19 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria
• Constantine Kanaris, Greek freedom fighter, Admiral and politician.(Other possible year of birth is 1795).

Deaths

• January 21 - Louis XVI of France executed
• February 1 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman
• February 6 - Carlo Goldoni, playwright
• May 20 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist
• July 13 - Jean Paul Marat (assassinated by Charlotte Corday)
• October 8 - John Hancock, revolutionary, businessman
• October 16 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed)