Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1793
Birthdays
- January 3 - Lucretia Mott, American women's rights activist (d. 1880)
- January 6 - James Madison Porter, American politician (d. 1862)
- January 14 - John C. Clark, American politician (d. 1852)
- March 2 - Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas (d. 1863)
- March 3 - William Charles Macready, English actor (d. 1873)
- March 4 - Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
- March 28 - Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer and geologist (d. 1864)
- April 15 - Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer (d. 1864)
- April 19 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria, (d. 1875)
- July 13 - John Clare, English poet (d. 1864)
- October 28 - Eliphalet Remington, American firearms manufacturer (d. 1861)
- November 3 - Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (d. 1836)
- November 15 - Michel Chasles, French mathematician (d. 1880)
- November 17 - Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter (d. 1865)
- November 28 - Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Swedish romantic poet (d. 1866)
Deaths
- January 1 - Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter (b. 1712)
- January 21 - King Louis XVI of France, (executed)
- February 1 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (b. 1717)
- February 6 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (b. 1707)
- March 2 - Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-born artist
- March 4 - Louis de Bourbon, French admiral (b. 1725)
- March 20 - William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
- March 26 - John Mudge, English physician (b. 1721)
- April 13 - Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French revolutionary (b. 1763)
- April 15 - Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (b. 1718)
- April 21 - John Michell, English seismologist (b. 1724)
- April 29 - Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi (b. 1713)
- April 29 - John Michell, English scientist (b. 1724)
- May 3 - Martin Gerbert, German theologian and historian (b. 1720)
- May 7 - Pietro Nardini, Italian composer (b. 1722)
- May 20 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist (b. 1720)
- June 26 - Gilbert White, English ornithologist (b. 1720)
- July 13 - Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (b. 1743)
- July 17 - Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat and murderer (b. 1768)
- July 21 - Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French explorer (b. 1739)
- July 23 - Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1721)
- August 22 - Louis, 4th duc de Noailles
- August 22 - Cäcilia Weber, German mother-in-law of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1727)
- August 28 - Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine
- October 7 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire
- October 8 - John Hancock, American revolutionary (b. 1737)
- October 9 - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
- October 16 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed) (b. 1755)
- October 16 - John Hunter, eminent doctor and philosopher (b. 1728
- November 3 - Olympe de Gouges, French feminist and revolutionary (b. 1748)
- November 24 - Clément Charles François de Laverdy, French statesman (b. 1723)
- December 7 - Joseph Bara, French revolutionary (b. 1780)
- December 9 - Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac
- December 23 - Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)
- December 23 - Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (b. 1697)
Events
- January 2 - Russia and Prussia partition Poland.
- January 9 - Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person 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 was executed by the guillotine.
- January 23 - Russia and Prussia partition Poland.
- February 1 - French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
- February 25 - George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States.
- March 4 - French troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands.
- March 5 - French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured.
- March 18 - The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
- April 6 - During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic, and the period known as the Reign of Terror begins.
- May 15 - Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted flights.
- June 2 - Jean-Paul Marat recites the names of 29 people to the French National Convention. Almost all of these people are guillotined, followed by 17,000 more over the course of the next year during the Reign of Terror.
- June 10 - The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
- June 10 - French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
- June 24 - The first republican constitution in France is adopted.
- July 9 - The Act Against Slavery is passed in Upper Canada and the importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.
- July 22 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
- July 23 - The Prussians conquer Mayence.
- July 29 - John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
- August 8 - The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.
- August 12 - The Rhône départment is created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire was split into two: Rhône and Loire (Lêre).
- August 23 - French Revolution: a levée en masse was decreed by the National Convention.
- August 27 - 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 - French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
- September 8 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.
- September 18 - The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
- October 5 - French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
- October 12 - 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 16 - Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
- October 16 - The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory.
- November 3 - French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
- November 8 - In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum.
- November 12 - Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
- December 9 - New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
- December 18 - Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French royalists to Lord Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
- December 23 - The Battle of Savenay, decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in Revolt in the Vendée during the French Revolution.
- December 26 - Battle of Geisberg: French defeat Austrians.
- December 26 - The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place.
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