January 15 » American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present-day Vermont) declares its independence.
July 7 » American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
August 6 » American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
October 22 » American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
November 15 » American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
December 19 » American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
Day of death December 20, 1793
The temperature on December 20, 1793 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
June 10 » French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
August 16 » French Revolution: A levée en masse is decreed by the National Convention.
August 27 » French Revolutionary Wars: The city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.
October 13 » French Revolutionary Wars: Austro-Prussian victory over Republican France at the First Battle of Wissembourg.
November 3 » French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
December 23 » The Battle of Savenay: A decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in War in the Vendée during the French Revolution.
Day of burial December 24, 1793
The temperature on December 24, 1793 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
March 18 » Flanders Campaign of the French Revolution, Battle of Neerwinden.
June 24 » The French Constitution of 1793 is formally adopted, although it is effectively suspended by the Committee of Public Safety.
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.
October 15 » Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted, and condemned to death the following day.
October 16 » War of the First Coalition: French victory at the Battle of Wattignies forces Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge.
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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