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In 1793, there were several cases of the plague on two ships, and consequently the island was transformed into a temporary confinement station for the ill ( Lazzaretto ); this role became permanent in 1805, under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte, who also had the old church of San Vitale destroyed ; the old bell tower was converted into a lighthouse.
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From the Penzance school Davy went in 1793 to Truro Grammar School, finishing his education there under the Rev.
* 1793 – John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
The North West Company established a trading post there in 1793, and many natives began settling there permanently, while they continued to hunt and fish in the area.
Blanchette settled there in 1769 under the authority of the Spanish governor of Upper Louisiana, and served as its civil and military leader until his death in 1793.
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.
In July 1793, Bailly left Nantes to join his friend Pierre Simon Laplace at Melun, but was there recognised and arrested.
Under the definition of a regicide in common usage in England, there have been two other such events since 1649: the execution of Louis XVI of France in 1793, after sentence of death by the National Convention and Maximilian I of Mexico in 1867 by a Mexican court-martial.
In 1793 during the debates on the Aliens Act designed to prevent French Revolutionary spies and saboteurs from flooding into the country, Edmund Burke made a speech in which he claimed there were thousands of French agents in Britain ready to use weapons against the authorities.
By 1793 steam power had been introduced to the Stalybridge cotton industry and by 1803 there were eight cotton mills in the growing town containing 76, 000 spindles.
In 1793 he moved to Lexington, Kentucky and began to practice law there.
In 1793 there was a small, unsuccessful slave rebellion in Saint Pierre.
Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first mayor of Paris, became a victim of his own revolution and was guillotined there on 12 November 1793.
Flood also asserted that Field's family moved to Bath, Somerset, in 1793 and lived there for a short time, and this too is considered unlikely by modern researchers.
He left for Canada again on 18 August 1793 to resume his duties there.
According to a recent study by Klaus Martin Kopitz, there is flimsy evidence that the piece was written for the German soprano singer Elisabeth Röckel ( 1793 – 1883 ), later the wife of Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
The family would make their home there, and they would have three children: Margaret ( 1771 – 1809 ), Mildred ( 1773 – 1837 ) and Fredrik ( 1774 – 1793 ).
The 60-gun ships were also dying out, superseded initially by the 74-gun third rates, although by 1793 there were still four 60-gun ships left in harbour service.
The romantic poet Erik Johan Stagnelius was born in the Öland parish of Gärdslösa in 1793 and lived there until 16 years of age.
Friedrich Accum felt the pull and relocated there in 1793.
After the loss of HMS Sirius off Norfolk Island, Hunter returned to England in 1792, and there he prepared for publication his interesting An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, With the Discoveries That Have Been Made in New South Wales and the Southern Ocean Since the Publication of Phillip's Voyage, published at the beginning of 1793.
When the succeeding National Convention met in 1792, the seating arrangement continued, but following the coup d ' état of June 2, 1793, and the arrest of the Girondins, the right side of the assembly was deserted, and any remaining members who had sat there moved to the centre.
When the seat of the Parliament was moved to Warsaw, the town became the seat of the highest court of Poland, the Royal Tribunal, and trials were held there from 1578 – 1793 ; the highest Lithuanian court was held in Hrodna ( Grodno ).
In 1789 his daughter sold the house to Richard Davenport, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, who lived there for 10 years, during which, Court Garden was described in Boydells ‘ History of the River Thames ’, published in 1793, as " a fine Georgian house standing on a gentle eminence, a lawn of some extent descending gradually from it to the river ".
In 1793, due to the fact that he was on a mission to the King of Sardinia in Turin, he was near at hand when British forces captured the French port of Toulon, and he briefly took command of the British land forces there, before withdrawing upon the arrival of more senior officers.
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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.
Returning from Sardinia Napoleon with his family and all his supporters were instrumental in getting Paoli denounced at the National Convention in Paris in 1793.
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.
Most inhabitants of Diego Garcia through the period from 1793 to 1971 were plantation workers, but also included Franco-Mauritian managers, Indo-Mauritian administrators, Mauritian and Seychellois contract employees, and in the late 19th Century, Chinese and Somali employees.
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.
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.
Almost immediately, French forces faced defeat on many fronts, and were driven out of their newly conquered territories in the spring of 1793.
At the end of 1793, the army began to prevail and revolts were defeated with ease.
Women were, nonetheless, " denied political rights of ‘ active citizenship ’ ( 1791 ) and democratic citizenship ( 1793 ).
Later, on 20 May 1793, women were at the fore of a crowd that demanded " bread and the Constitution of 1793.
From 1691 to 1793, Dissenters and Roman Catholics were excluded from membership.
Royalist invasion forces were defeated at Toulon in 1793, leaving the French republican forces in an offensive position and granting a young officer, Napoleon Bonaparte, a certain fame.
The British embassies of George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney ( 1793 ) and William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst ( 1816 ) were foiled, since kowtowing would mean acknowledging their King as a subject of the Emperor.
In 1793, during the Napoleonic Wars, the Irish militia were reorganized to form thirty-seven county and city regiments.
The extensive period of conflict during the American Revolutionary War ( or American War of Independence ) and Napoleonic Wars ( 1793 – 1815 ), followed by the Anglo-American War of 1812, led to the emergence of a cartel system for the exchange of prisoners, even while the belligerents were at war.
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.
It is estimated that, between 1493 and 1793, sejms were held 240 times, the total debate-time sum of which was 44 years.
Humboldt's plans for reforming the Prussian school system were not published until long after his death, together with his fragment of a treatise on the ' Theory of Human Education ', which had been written in about 1793.
The Louvre in Paris was established in 1793, soon after the French Revolution when the royal treasures were declared for the people.
In 1793, Cimarosa returned to Naples, where Il matrimonio segreto and other works were received with great acclaim.
On 25 June 1793 Avignon and Comtat-Venaissin were integrated along with the former principality of Orange to form the present republican département Vaucluse.
Around 1790 Dalton seems to have considered taking up law or medicine, but his projects were not met with encouragement from his relatives – Dissenters were barred from attending or teaching at English universities – and he remained at Kendal until, in the spring of 1793, he moved to Manchester.
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