January 9 » Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
May 15 » Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5–6 meters, during one of the first attempted manned flights.
June 10 » The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
July 13 » Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.
September 8 » French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.
December 23 » The Battle of Savenay: A decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in War in the Vendée during the French Revolution.
Christening day December 8, 1793
The temperature on December 8, 1793 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
April 6 » During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
June 10 » The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
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 15 » Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted, and condemned to death the following day.
December 9 » New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
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