February 1 » French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
April 6 » During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
July 9 » The Act Against Slavery in Upper Canada bans the importation of slaves and will free those who are born into slavery after the passage of the Act at 25 years of age.
July 13 » Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.
November 16 » French Revolution: Ninety dissident Roman Catholic priests are executed by drowning at Nantes.
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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