January 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Day of death September 20, 1793
The temperature on September 20, 1793 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 13 » Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome
June 10 » The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
August 12 » The Rhône and Loire départments are created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two.
August 16 » French Revolution: A levée en masse is decreed by the National Convention.
September 17 » War of the Pyrenees: France defeats a Spanish force at the Battle of Peyrestortes.
October 12 » The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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