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1793 Historical Event(s)
February 1, 1793
– French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
April 6, 1793
– During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
June 24, 1793
– The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.
July 9, 1793
– The Act Against Slavery is passed in Upper Canada and the importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.
August 12, 1793
– The Rhône and Loire (Lêre) départments are created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two.
October 12, 1793
– The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina
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.
December 26, 1793
– The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place.
Who Were Born On 1793?
January 3, 1793
– Lucretia Mott, American women’s rights activist (d. 1880)
January 14, 1793
– John C. Clark, American politician (d. 1852)
March 3, 1793
– William Charles Macready, English actor (d. 1873)
March 4, 1793
– Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
April 15, 1793
– Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer (d. 1864)
June 29, 1793
– Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor (d. 1857)
July 13, 1793
– John Clare, English poet (d. 1864)
October 28, 1793
– Eliphalet Remington, American firearms manufacturer (d. 1861)
November 3, 1793
– Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (d. 1836)
November 28, 1793
– Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Swedish romantic poet (d. 1866)