January 11 » The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyterian Ministers (now part of Unum Group), is incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
January 15 » The British Museum opens to the public.
May 1 » Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.
August 19 » Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France.
November 25 » An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000-40,000.
December 31 » Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.
Day of marriage November 26, 1793
The temperature on November 26, 1793 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: betrokken mist. Source: KNMI
January 9 » Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
January 13 » Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome
February 1 » French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
June 10 » French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
September 18 » The first cornerstone of the United States Capitol is laid by George Washington.
December 25 » General "Mad Anthony" Wayne and a 300 man detachment identify the site of St. Clair's 1791 defeat by the large number of unburied human remains at modern Fort Recovery, Ohio.
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