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In 1793, the largest yellow fever epidemics in U. S. history killed at least 4, 000 and up to 5, 000 people in Philadelphia, roughly 10 % of the city's population.
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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 ).
In 1793, one of the largest yellow fever epidemics in U. S. history killed as many as
The Louvre in Paris is one of the most famous and the largest art museums in the world, created by the new revolutionary regime in 1793 in the former royal palace.
The capital and largest city in the district is George Town ( permanent population 1, 000 ), founded 1793 and located on Great Exuma.
On April 30, 1793, the largest flotilla of military barges ever assembled on the Ohio River departed Legion Ville for Fort Washington, Cincinnati, Ohio.
In the 18th century, Newcastle was the country's largest print centre after London, Oxford and Cambridge, and the Literary and Philosophical Society of 1793, with its erudite debates and large stock of books in several languages predated the London Library by half a century.
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In August 1793, a yellow fever epidemic broke out in Philadelphia.
During his presidency, George Washington and his family lodged at the Deshler-Morris House in Germantown to escape the city and the yellow fever epidemic of 1793.
Rush wrote a descriptive account of the yellow fever epidemic that struck Philadelphia in 1793 ( during which he treated up to 120 patients per day ), and what is considered to be the first case report on dengue fever ( published in 1789 on a case from 1780 ).
Benjamin Rush identified an outbreak in August 1793 as a yellow fever epidemic, the first in 30 years, which lasted four months.
After he succumbed to yellow fever in the great epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia, he was saved from a pauper's grave by a neighbor, who had him interred in Christ Church Burial Ground.
One of the foremost surgeons of the time, Dr. Physick was among the few doctors who remained in the city to care for the sick during Philadelphia's decimating yellow fever epidemic of 1793.
In 1793, there was an outbreak of yellow fever in Philadelphia.
In 1793 he became totally blind from an attack of yellow fever.
During the yellow fever epidemic of 1793, he suffered an attack of the disease contracted while caring for his patients.
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* 1793 " An account of the scarlet fever and sore throat ..." 2nd ed Publ Robinson, London
During his time with this regiment Brock served in the Caribbean, where he fell ill with fever and nearly died, only recovering once he had returned to England in 1793.
Roger Sherman died in his sleep on July 23, 1793 after a two-month illness diagnosed as typhoid fever.
Yellow fever outbreaks recurred in Philadelphia and other major ports through the nineteenth century, but none had as many fatalities as that of 1793.
In October of the same year, Gordon caught the typhoid fever that had been raging in Newgate throughout 1793.
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* 1721 – Roger Sherman, American statesman and signer of the U. S. Declaration of Independence ( d. 1793 )
He was elected to the U. S. House under the new national government, and served in Congress from 1789 to 1793.
When Britain and France went to war in 1793, the U. S. was caught in the middle.
* John Brown ( Kentucky ) ( 1757 – 1837 ), U. S. representative ( VA, 1789 – 1792 ) and U. S. senator ( KY, 1793 – 1805 ); member of Continental Congress from Virginia
The U. S. Supreme Court held that Kentucky's jurisdiction ( and, implicitly, that of West Virginia ) extended only to the low-water mark of 1793 ( important because the river has been extensively dammed for navigation, so that the present river bank is north of the old low-water mark.
For example, J. Wilson's comments in U. S. Republic, 1793:
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 created the mechanism for recovering a fugitive slave, overruled any state laws giving sanctuary, made it a federal crime to assist an escaped slave, and allowed slave-catchers into every U. S. state and territory.
* April 15 – Isaiah Stillman, U. S. Army Major in the Black Hawk War ( b. 1793 )
* Sam Houston ( 1793 – 1863 ), born in Rockbridge County, the only man to be Governor of two U. S. states ( Texas, Tennessee ).
* John Flournoy Henry ( 1793 – 1873 ), U. S. Representative from Kentucky
The town dropped " Ayre " from its name by the time what would become the U. S. Postal Service opened a branch office there in 1793.
* Wilson, Peter H. War, State and Society in Württemberg, 1677 – 1793 ( Cambridge U. P.
The first law degree granted by a U. S. university was a Bachelor of Law in 1793 by the College of William and Mary, which was abbreviated L. B.
* Nathanael G. Pendleton ( 1793 – 1861 ), U. S. Representative from Ohio
A hero of the American Revolution, he later served as a member of the New York Assembly ( 1792 – 1793 ) and as a congressman in the U. S. House of Representatives ( 1793 – 1794 ) from that district.
Cave Johnson ( January 11, 1793 – November 23, 1866 ) was for fourteen years a Democratic U. S. Congressman from Tennessee.
William Paterson ( December 24, 1745September 9, 1806 ) was a New Jersey statesman, a signer of the U. S. Constitution, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, who served as the 2nd governor of New Jersey, from 1790 to 1793.
He resigned the governorship to become an associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court ( 1793 – 1806 ).
Aside from being used in Spanish territories, the picayune and other Spanish currency was used throughout the colonial U. S .. Spanish dollars were made legal tender in the United States by an act on February 9, 1793 until it was demonetized on February 21, 1857.
The first was built in 1792, when Philadelphia was still the U. S. capital, and began operation in 1793.
:" Back in 1800, he was among the signers of a petition to the U. S. Congress calling for the abolition of the slave trade and the modification of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793.
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