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* 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.
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* 1793 – During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
* 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.
* 1793 – The Rhône and Loire ( Lêre ) départments are created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two.
* 1721 – Roger Sherman, American statesman and signer of the U. S. Declaration of Independence ( d. 1793 )
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.
* 1793 – Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Hood ; renamed, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
1793 and Queen
Queen Marie Antoinette on the way to the guillotine on 16 October 1793 ( drawing by Jacques-Louis David ).
Marie Antoinette ( or ; ; baptised Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna ( or Maria Antonia Josephina Johanna ); 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793 ) was an Archduchess of Austria from 1755 to 1770, a Dauphine of France from 1770 to 1774 and the Queen of France and of Navarre from 1774 to 1792.
However, when King Louis XVI and Maria Carolina's sister Queen Marie Antoinette were executed following the abolishment of the monarchy, Ferdinand and Maria Carolina joined the first coalition against France in 1793.
On the outbreak of the French Revolution King Ferdinand IV of Naples and Queen Maria Carolina did not at first actively oppose reform ; but after the fall of the French monarchy they became violently opposed to it, and in 1793 joined the first coalition against France, instituting severe persecutions against all who were remotely suspected of French sympathies.
Also within the grounds lie various garden buildings and monuments, including the ' Gothic Ruin ' ( 1793 ), ' Queen Victoria's Tea House ' ( a brick pavilion building of 1869 ) and the ' Indian Kiosk ' commemorating the end of the Indian Mutiny ( 1858 ).
It was opened on July 30, 1793 by Queen Maria I as a replacement for the Tejo Opera House, which was destroyed in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.
His The Sufferings of the Queen of France ( composed in 1793, C 98 ), for example, is an episodic account of Marie Antoinette with interpolated texts relating to the Queen's misfortunes, including her sorrow at being separated from her children and her final moments on the scaffold before the guillotine.
This decision proved fortunate, since during the Reign of Terror that followed many of the Bourbons still living in France were arrested, put on trial and guillotined: King Louis XVI, Queen Marie Antoinette and the Duke of Orleans ( Philippe Égalité ) were executed in 1793, and the king's sister, Madame Élisabeth, was beheaded in 1794.
Yolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastron, Duchess of Polignac ( 8 September 1749 – 9 December 1793 ) was the favourite of Marie Antoinette, whom she first met when she was presented at the Palace of Versailles in 1775, the year after Marie Antoinette became the Queen of France.
Initially aboard the Orion ( 74-gun ) from 1793 as Commander, and later in HMS Queen with the Channel Fleet of Admiral Lord Howe in the Admiral's division, in which post Duckworth saw action in three battles during latter May and 1 June 1794.
1793 and France
After the king's execution in January 1793, these powers, along with Spain and most other European states, joined the war against France.
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 February 1793 a major war broke out between conservative Great Britain and its allies and revolutionary France, launching an era of large-scale warfare that engulfed Europe until 1815.
They must be kept on the run constantly with aggressive patrols, raids, ambushes, sweeps, cordons, roadblocks, prisoner snatches, etc. Mass shootings of War in the Vendée | Vendée royalist rebels in western France, 1793
Some English government officials felt that Louis Bonaparte was seeking foreign adventure in the spirit of his uncle — Napoleon I. Consequently, these officials felt that any close association with Louis Bonaparte would eventually lead Britain into another series of wars, like the wars with France and Napoleon dating from 1793 until 1815.
Prussia and Austria ended their failed wars with France but ( with Russia ) partitioned Poland among themselves in 1793 and 1795.
The Committee of Public Safety, set up by the National Convention on 6 April 1793, formed the twelve-member de facto executive government of France.
* 1793 – Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome
However, in 1793, France adopted as its official unit of length a metre based on provisional results from the expedition.
Webster followed French radical thought and urged a neutral foreign policy when France and Britain went to war in 1793.
* The French Revolutionary Calendar, in force in France from 1793 to 1805 and briefly under the Paris Commune in 1871, began the calendar year on the day of the Southward equinox-September 22, 23 or 24.
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