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.
July 13 » Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.
July 23 » Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
September 17 » War of the Pyrenees: France defeats a Spanish force at the Battle of Peyrestortes.
December 18 » Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Samuel Hood; renamed HMSLutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
Christening day May 9, 1793
The temperature on May 9, 1793 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
April 6 » During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
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.
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.
December 26 » Second Battle of Wissembourg: France defeats Austria.
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