January 9 » Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
January 23 » Second Partition of Poland.
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.
August 16 » French Revolution: A levée en masse is decreed by the National Convention.
October 13 » French Revolutionary Wars: Austro-Prussian victory over Republican France at the First Battle of Wissembourg.
December 26 » Second Battle of Wissembourg: France defeats Austria.
Christening day December 29, 1793
The temperature on December 29, 1793 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
March 1 » French Revolutionary War: Battle of Aldenhoven during the Flanders Campaign.
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.
October 15 » Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted, and condemned to death the following day.
November 10 » A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette.
December 23 » The Battle of Savenay: A decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in War in the Vendée during the French Revolution.
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