January 9 » Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
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.
September 5 » French Revolution: The French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
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 13 » French Revolutionary Wars: Austro-Prussian victory over Republican France at the First Battle of Wissembourg.
November 16 » French Revolution: Ninety dissident Roman Catholic priests are executed by drowning at Nantes.
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