* Sarah Austin ( translator ) ( 1793 – 1867 ), English author

* Stephen F. Austin ( 1793 – 1836 ), American politician, founder of Texas

* 1793 – During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.

* 1722 – Pietro Nardini, Italian composer ( d. 1793 )

* 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: the city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.

* 1879 – Joseph Severn, English painter ( b. 1793 )

* 1793 – The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.

* 1738 – Leopold Hofmann, Austrian composer ( d. 1793 )

* 1793 – The Rhône and Loire ( Lêre ) départments are created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two.

* 1743 – Madame du Barry, French mistress of Louis XV of France ( d. 1793 )

* 1754 – Louis XVI of France ( d. 1793 )

* 1721 – Roger Sherman, American statesman and signer of the U. S. Declaration of Independence ( d. 1793 )

* 1793 – Ferdinand I of Austria ( d. 1875 )

* 1793 – The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France.

* 1873 – William Charles Macready, English actor ( b. 1793 )

* 1713 – Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, French peer and Marshal of France ( d. 1793 )

* New-York Magazine 4 ( 1793 ): 77 – 81.

Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (; 25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793 ) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice.

Clausewitz served in the Rhine Campaigns ( 1793 – 1794 ) including the Siege of Mainz, when the Prussian army invaded France during the French Revolution, and served in the Napoleonic Wars from 1806 to 1815.

* Louis XVI ( 1774 – 1793 )

* Louis XVII ( 1793 – 1795 )

* George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough ( 1793 – 1857 ), eldest son of the 5th Duke

* 1793 – Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Hood ; renamed, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.

* 1726 – Johann Hartmann, Danish composer ( d. 1793 )

The university was created by the archbishop Pey Berland in 1441 and was abolished in 1793, during the French Revolution, before reappearing in 1808 with Napoleon I. Bordeaux accommodates approximately 70, 000 students on one of the largest campuses of Europe ( 235 ha ).

Carbine model 1793, used by the French Army during the French Revolutionary Wars.

* 1793 – Second Battle of Wissembourg: French defeat Austrians.

Following the departure of the British, the French colony of Mauritius began marooning lepers on Diego Garcia, and in 1793 the French established a coconut plantation using slave labour, which also exported cordage made from coconut fiber, and sea cucumbers, known as a delicacy in the orient.

Diego Garcia had no permanent inhabitants when discovered by the Spanish explorer Diego García de Moguer in the 16th century and remained so until settled as a French colony in 1793.

The Ilois, now called Chagos Islanders or Chagossians since the late 1990s, were descended primarily from slaves brought to the island from Madagascar by the French between 1793 and 1810, and Malay slaves from the slave market on Pulo Nyas, an island off the northwest coast of Sumatra, from around 1820 until the slave trade ended following the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.

* 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

Almost immediately, French forces faced defeat on many fronts, and were driven out of their newly conquered territories in the spring of 1793.

But the allies failed to take advantage of French disunity, and by the autumn of 1793 the republican regime had defeated most of the internal rebellions and halted the allied advance into France itself.

Meanwhile, on 24 June, the Convention adopted the first republican constitution of France, variously referred to as the French Constitution of 1793 or Constitution of the Year I.

In Vendée, peasants revolted against the French Revolutionary government in 1793.

The French Republican Calendar () or French Revolutionary Calendar ( calendrier révolutionnaire français ) was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and for 18 days by the Paris Commune in 1871.

Internally, popular sentiments radicalized the Revolution significantly, culminating in the rise of Maximilien Robespierre and the Jacobins and virtual dictatorship by the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror from 1793 until 1794 during which between 16, 000 and 40, 000 people were killed.

During the more radical phase of the Revolution from 1793 to 1794, the usage and depiction of Hercules changed.

In an earlier work from 1793 dealing with the ideals and politics of the French Revolution, Beiträge zur Berichtigung der Urteile des Publikums über die Französische Revolution ( Contributions to the Correction of the Public's Judgment concerning the French Revolution ), he called Jews a " state within a state " that could " undermine " the German nation.

Members of the Mountain went on to establish the Committee of Public Safety in April 1793 under Robespierre, which would be responsible for The Terror ( 5 September 1793 – 28 July 1794 ), the bloodiest and one of the most controversial phases of the French Revolution.

Starting in September 1793, a period known as the Reign of Terror ensued for approximately 12 months, the bloodiest and one of the most controversial phases of the French Revolution.

* 1793 – French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.

* 1793 – French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.

Thus the ceremony held at the site of the demolished Bastille, organized by the foremost artistic director of the Revolution, Jacques-Louis David, in August 1793 to mark the inauguration of the new republican constitution, an event coming shortly after the final abolition of all forms of feudal privilege, featured a cantata based on Rousseau's democratic pantheistic deism as expounded in the celebrated " Profession de foi d ' un vicaire savoyard " in Book Four of Émile.

* 1793 – French Revolution: Ninety anti-republican Catholic priests are executed by drowning at Nantes.

* 1793 – French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.

* 1793 – Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.

The Reign of Terror ( 5 September 1793 – 28 July 1794: the latter is date 10 Thermidor, year II of the French Revolutionary Calendar ), also known simply as The Terror (), was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of " enemies of the revolution.

Many historians have debated the reasons why the French Revolution took such a radical turn during the Reign of Terror of 1793 – 94.

Jacques Roux's Manifesto of the Enraged in 25 June 1793 describes the extent to which, four years into the Revolution, these goals were largely unattained by the common people.

Francois Furet, however, argues that circumstances could not have been the sole cause of the Reign of Terror because " the risks for the Revolution were greatest " in the middle of 1793 but at that time " the activity of the Revolutionary Tribunal was relatively minimal.

" On July 26, 1793, the death penalty was instituted for hoarders of grain and other ' blood-suckers ', including currency speculators ", writes Dr. Miguel Faria, who dubbed this phase the " Economic Terror " of the French Revolution: " The armées révolutionnaires were empowered to search around the towns and countryside, ransacking houses, barns and warehouses, looking for stored grain.