When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.

A dinner and celebration in honor of this piece of engineering took place July 4, 1793, in a tavern erected by the corporation on the island.

After an earthquake in Japan in 1793 people on the coast at Tugaru were so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground.

* 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.

Psyché revived by the kiss of Love by Antonio Canova, c. 1793.

* 1793 – French Revolution: a levée en masse is decreed by the National Convention.

Napoleon and his mother, Laetitia, were taken out by ship in June 1793, by friends while two of the girls found refuge with other friends.

Timur died in 1793, and was then succeeded by his fifth son Zaman Shah

Browne Willis built a mansion in 1711, but this was pulled down by Thomas Harrison, who had acquired the property in 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 – Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Hood ; renamed, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.

* 1793 – New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.

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.

On 13 July 1793, David's friend Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corday with a knife she had hidden in her clothing.

File: Death of Marat by David. jpg | The Death of Marat ( 1793 ), Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

An exception is the 1789 publication Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White ( 1720 – 1793 ), considered by some to be one of the earliest texts on ecology.

" The Murder of King Edmund at Pucklechurch ", drawn by R. Smirke, published in Ashburton's History of England, 1793

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.

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.

On 17 January 1793 Louis was condemned to death for " conspiracy against the public liberty and the general safety " by a close majority in Convention: 361 voted to execute the king, 288 voted against, and another 72 voted to execute him subject to a variety of delaying conditions.

* 1793 – James Madison Porter, American politician, 18th United States Secretary of War and a founder of Lafayette College ( d. 1862 )

In July 1793, Jefferson convened a five-member commission, bringing Hallet and Thornton together, along with James Hoban, to address problems with and revise Thornton's plan.

* Robert Havell, Jr. ( 1793 – 1878 ), British-American engraver who printed and colored John James Audubon ’ s monumental Birds of America series, also painter in the style of the Hudson River School

Their children were born on his family's plantation near Timber Ridge Church, including Sam Houston on March 2, 1793, the fifth of nine children and the fifth son born: Children-Paxton 1783, Robert 1787, James 1788, John Paxton 1790 ( first clerk of Izard County, Arkansas 1819-1838 ), Samuel 1793, William 1794, Isabella 1796, Mary Blair 1797, and Elizabeth Ann 1800.

The 1792 and 1793 almanacs contained lengthy commendations that James McHenry, a signer of the United States Constitution and self-described friend of Banneker, had written in 1791.

In James Gillray's Britannia between Scylla and Charybdis ( 1793 ), Britannia is shown without the weapons which would invariably characterise her in the 19th century

* The 1793 organ by James Davis

Depiction of the destruction of Dagon by Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1793.

* James Archbald, born 1793, Little Cumbrae island, Ayrshire Coast, Scotland.

James Augustus Black, ( 1793 – 1848 ), was born in Ninety Six and became a United States Congressman from South Carolina.

In 1793, James Hubbert, who lived along Dumplin Creek, established Hubbert's Flat Landing to trade with flatboats moving up and down the river.

James, who had owned shares in the Company since 1793, had a wide interest in turnpike roads and railways, and following a tour of the north of England between 1802 and 1804, on which he investigated railways and canals, he expanded his business interests to include coal mining.

The street became a commercial success upon the opening of Carlisle Bridge, designed by James Gandon, in 1793 for pedestrians and 1795 for all traffic.

Guesswork ended when James Dinwiddie of the Macartney Embassy of 1793 brought back, at considerable personal risk ( smuggling of paktong ore was a capital crime by the Chinese Emperor ) some of the ore from which paktong was made.

Columbia College appointed its first Professor of Law, James Kent, in 1793.

* Howard, R., " James Tilly Matthews in London and Paris 1793: His First Peace Mission — in His Own Words ", History of Psychiatry, Vol. 2, No. 5, ( March 1991 ), pp. 53-69.

* Williams, D., " The Missions of David Williams and James Tilly Matthews to England ( 1793 )", The English Historical Review, Vol. 53, No. 212, ( October 1938 ), pp. 651-668.

1793: The first recognized split from the Methodist Episcopal Church was led by a preacher named James O ' Kelly who wanted clergy to be free to refuse to serve where the bishop appointed them.

Columbia College appointed its first professor of law, James Kent, in 1793.

William, along with his father William and brother James, was a founding partner in the import-export mercantile firm, the William Seton Company, which had become Seton, Maitland and Company in 1793.

A painting commissioned in the last year of Macnaghten's life, by James Atkinson ( Persian scholar ) | James Atkinson. Sir William Hay Macnaghten, 1st Baronet ( 24 August 1793 – 23 December 1841 ) was a British civil servant in India, who played a major part in the First Anglo-Afghan War.

Kellys wrote of the church and its history: The church of St. James is a building of stone, in the Decorated style, erected in 1845-6 from designs by Mr. G. G. Place, of Nottingham, and consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and a tower, as yet unfinished: it has a very elaborately carved Perpendicular font, and the east window and some others are stained ... the destruction of the earlier church in 1643 services were afterwards held in the Chapel of St. Mary, a small building in the middle of the village, which was taken down in 1793, and a church erected on the same site: the present edifice will seat 400 persons.