January 9 » Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
June 24 » The French Constitution of 1793 is formally adopted, although it is effectively suspended by the Committee of Public Safety.
August 10 » The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France.
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.
November 10 » A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette.
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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