Today in History for Year 1793

Months in Year 1793: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 59 of 59

Jan 9th - 1st hot-air balloon flight in the US lifts off in Philadelphia, piloted by Jean Pierre Blanchard
Jan 9th - Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery
Jan 19th - French King Louis XVI sentenced to death
Jan 21st - Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided)
Jan 23rd - 2nd partition of Poland, between Prussia & Russia
Jan 23rd - Humane Society of Philadelphia (1st aid society) organized
Feb 1st - France declares war on England & Netherlands
Feb 1st - Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, NY, for oiled silk & linen
Feb 11th - Prussian troops occupy Venlo Neth
Feb 12th - 1st US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves
Feb 24th - French troops conquer Breda
Feb 25th - 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home)
Mar 4th - French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Neth
Mar 4th - Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words)
Mar 5th - French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured.
Mar 18th - 2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France
Mar 18th - The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
Mar 26th - Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France
Apr 1st - Volcano Unsen on Japan erupts killing about 53,000
Apr 15th - Bank of England hands out 1st £5 note
Apr 17th - Battle of Warsaw
Apr 22nd - Pres Washington attends opening of Rickett's, 1st circus in US
Apr 29th - Cornerstone laid for Groningen's new townhall
May 15th - Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted flights.
May 19th - Netherlands captures French island of St Maarten (held until 1795)
May 21st - Curacao Island Council forbids criticism on House of Orange
May 25th - Father Stephen Theodore Badin is 1st US Roman Catholic priest ordained
May 30th - Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public
Jun 10th - 1st public zoo opens in Paris
Jun 10th - Washington replaced Philadelphia as US capital
Jun 11th - 1st American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick
Jun 24th - 1st republican constitution in France adopted
Jul 22nd - Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
Jul 23rd - The Prussians conquer Mayence.
Jul 24th - France passes 1st copyright law
Jul 29th - John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
Aug 1st - France becomes 1st country to use the metric system
Aug 8th - The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.
Aug 12th - The Rhône départment is created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire was split into two: Rhône and Loire (Lêre).
Aug 29th - Slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed
Sep 5th - In the French Revolution, the "Reign of Terror" begins
Sep 18th - Pres Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building
Sep 20th - British troops under Major-general Williamson lands on (French) Haiti
Sep 29th - Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine
Oct 5th - French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
Oct 16th - Battle of Wattignies.
Oct 28th - Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin
Oct 31st - Execution of Girondins at Paris, during Reign of Terror
Nov 3rd - French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
Nov 8th - Louvre in Paris, opens
Nov 10th - France ends forced worship of God
Nov 12th - Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
Nov 18th - Louvre officially opens in Paris
Nov 26th - Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
Lexicographer Noah Webster Dec 9th - Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva
Dec 14th - 1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky to Cincinnati
Dec 18th - Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French royalists to Lord Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
Dec 23rd - Thomas Jefferson warned of slave revolts in West Indies
Dec 26th - Battle of Geisberg: French defeat Austrians.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 39 of 39

Jan 3rd - Lucretia Coffin Mott, US, teacher/minister/abolitionist/feminist
Jan 6th - James Madison Porter, American politician (d. 1862)
Jan 14th - John C. Clark, American politician (d. 1852)
Jan 18th - William Henry Havergal, composer
Feb 6th - Pietro Rovelli, composer
Mar 2nd - Sam[uel] Houston, 1st president of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44)
Mar 3rd - Ch Sealsfield, writer
Mar 3rd - William Charles Macready, English actor (d. 1873)
Mar 4th - Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
Mar 6th - Bernhard Joseph Klein, composer
Mar 11th - Jan F Willems, Flemish writer/philologist
Mar 12th - Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, composer
Mar 28th - Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer and geologist (d. 1864)
Apr 11th - Nicolaas C Kist, Dutch church historian/archivist
Apr 12th - Ferdinand I KLJM, the Good Natured, Emperor of Austria/king of Hungary
Apr 15th - Friedrich Struve, Germany, founded dynasty of astronomers
May 9th - Johannes C de Jonge, Dutch historian/archivist
Jul 2nd - Antoine Prumier, composer
Jul 3rd - John Claire, England, poet
Jul 4th - Franz Xaver Pechacek, composer
Jul 5th - Pavel I Pestel, Russian officer
Jul 6th - Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch lawyer/min of Internal Affairs (1848-49)
Jul 13th - John Clare, Northamptonshire peasant poet (Shepard's Calendar)
Jul 20th - Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer (Pan Jowiolski)
Jul 23rd - Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer
Jul 30th - Josepf Francois Snel, composer
Aug 10th - Heinrich August Neithardt, composer
Sep 4th - Edward Bates, Atty Gen (Union), died in 1869
Sep 25th - Felicia Dorothea Hermans, poet
Sep 28th - Denis-Auguste Affre, Franc, archbishop of Paris (1840-48) and opponent of King Louis-Philippe
Oct 28th - Eliphalet Remington, US gun maker
Nov 3rd - Stephen Fuller Austin, colonized Texas
Nov 10th - Jared Kirtland, US, physician/naturalist/reformed penitentiaries
Nov 15th - Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry)
Nov 16th - Francis Danby, Irish painter
Nov 28th - Carl Jonas Love Almquist, Swedish composer (Tornrosens Buck)
Dec 11th - Pietro Coppola, composer
Dec 15th - Henry Charles Carey, Phila, economist (Principles of Poli Economy)
Dec 26th - Franz Hunten, composer

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Dec 26th - The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place.

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 50 of 50

Jan 1st - Francesco Guardi, Italian painter, dies at 80
Jan 4th - Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea/Yttersa domen), dies at 35
Jan 21st - Louis XVI, French King (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38
Feb 1st - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (b. 1717)
Feb 2nd - William Aiton, English botanist (Kew Gardens), dies at 61
Feb 6th - Carlo Goldoni, Italian author (L'avaro), dies at 85
Mar 2nd - Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-born artist
Mar 4th - Isaac Ouwater, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist, dies at 44
Mar 20th - William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (b. 1705)
Mar 21st - Johann Michael Schmidt, composer, dies at 51
Mar 26th - John Mudge, English physician (b. 1721)
Apr 9th - Ernestus Weinrauch, composer, dies at 62
Apr 13th - Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French revolutionary (b. 1763)
Apr 15th - Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (b. 1718)
Apr 21st - John Michell, English seismologist (b. 1724)
Apr 29th - Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi (b. 1713)
Apr 29th - John Michell, English scientist (b. 1724)
Apr 30th - Lorenzo Fago, composer, dies at 88
May 7th - Johan A Zoutman, Dutch lt admiral (battle of Doggersbank), dies at 68
May 7th - Pietro Nardini, composer, dies at 71
May 13th - Martin Gerbert, composer, dies at 72
May 20th - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist (b. 1720)
Jun 4th - Jan Ekels de Young, Dutch painter, dies at 34
Jun 16th - Louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies
Jun 26th - Gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies
Jul 13th - Jean Paul Marat, French revolutionary, murdered by Charlotte Corday
Jul 14th - Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist, dies in battle at 44
Jul 17th - Charlotte Corday, murderer (Jean-Paul Marat), is guillotined
Jul 21st - Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French explorer (b. 1739)
Jul 23rd - Thomas Mckean, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 72
Aug 22nd - Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France, dies at 80
Aug 28th - Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/parliament member, dies
Oct 7th - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (b. 1718)
Statesman John Hancock (Oct 8th) Oct 8th - John Hancock, US merchant/statesman (Decl of Independence), dies at 56
Oct 9th - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
Oct 16th - Marie Antoinette, queen of France, beheaded at 37
Oct 16th - John Hunter, eminent doctor and philosopher (b. 1728
Oct 19th - Francisco Morera, composer, dies at 62
Oct 21st - Johann Ernst Hartmann, composer, dies at 66
Oct 31st - Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader, guillotined at 40
Nov 3rd - Olympe de Gouges, French feminist and revolutionary (b. 1748)
Nov 24th - Clément Charles François de Laverdy, French statesman (b. 1723)
Dec 6th - Marie Jeanne Becu comtesse du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, beheaded
Dec 7th - Joseph Bara, French revolutionary (b. 1780)
Dec 9th - Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (b. 1749)
Dec 13th - Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, composer, dies at 63
Dec 20th - Joseph Legros, composer, dies at 54
Dec 23rd - Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)
Queen of France Marie Antoinette (Oct 16th) Dec 23rd - Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (b. 1697)
Dec 28th - Louis earl of Bylandt, Dutch admiral, dies at about 75