History
1793
General
Population: 980 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Marquis de Sade Philosophie dans le Boudoir, JB Cloots, ML Condorcet, William Godwin (political justice),
Kant (religion and reason)
Music includes Paganini's debut (age 11)
Art includes "The Feast of Reason" in St. Eustache Church in Paris, Canova "Cupid and Psyche", David "Murder of Marat"
- Technology: Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
- Deaths: Dramatist Carlo Goldoni, Painter Francesco Guardi, Entomologist and philosopher Charles Bonnet, Louix XV mistress Mme. Du Barry executed,
Revolutionist Jean Paul Marat, King Louis XVI (executed), Marie Antoinette (executed), Artist Francesco Guardi
Africa
- South Africa: End of wars between Xhosa and Boer settlers
Americas
- Canada: Sir Alexander Mackenzie first crosses Canada from coast to coast
- Haiti: Slavery abolished
- Trinidad: Captured by Britain from Spain
Asia
- China: British trade delegation under Lord Macartney rebuffed by the Manchu Emperor Qianlong
- India: Judicial system reorganized - State taxation and legal reforms along British lines – British East India Company fights for Britain
- Japan: Mt. Unsen erupts killing 53,000
- Java: Eruption of Miyi-Yama kills 53,000
Europe
- General: First Coalition against France formed
- France: Reign of terror continues with executions of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
Marat stabbed in the bath by Charlotte Corday – Marat had itchy skin diseases contracted through hiding in dark cellars
Committee of Public Safety established in France with Danton as its head
Robspierre and St. Just join Committee of Public Safety
Roman Catholicism banned in France
Philippe Egalite the Duke of Orleans executed
Napoleon takes Toulon
Compulsory public education from age 6
Louvre in Paris becomes national art gallery
Jacobin Constitution of France adopted
Royalist rebellion of France begins in Vendée
France blocks Anglo-Hanoverians at Hondschoote, defeats Austrians at Wattignies
Conscription in France for revolutionary army
Cyclops girl born to the Clements in France – she lives to be 15 and was otherwise normal
- German States: French troops driven out
- Great Britain: Board of Agriculture established
France declares war
- Holy Roman Empire: War on France
- Netherlands: France declares war
- Poland: Second partition between Russia and Prussia
- Spain: Alliance forms with France
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Sultan Selim II reforms Ottoman empire – eventually costs him the throne and his life
Pacific
- Australia: First free British settlers reach Australia
- New Zealand: Lermadec Islands near New Zealand discovered
President:
Pres: George Washington
General
- Abolition: US Fugitive Slave Law compels escaped slaves to return to owners
- Americana: Building of the Capitol win Washington DC by Thornton
- Politics: US proclaims neutrality in French revolution
US continues trade with French West Indies
John Jay sent to avoid war with Britain, Compromise - US ports now open to all trade with Brit - Britain kidnaps US troops
John Jay pleads with England for removal of fur ports after treaty of 1793
Jefferson resigns as secretary of state
- Technology: Cotton gin (short for engine) by Eli Whitney
Jean-Pierre Blanchard begins first manned balloon trip in US
East
- New York: Securities transactions in New York moves to Tontine Coffee House on Wall Street
- Pennsylvania: Yellow Fever outbreak
- Vermont: Influenza and "Putrid Fever" (Typhus?)
South
- Virginia: Influenza outbreak