January 13 » Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome
February 1 » French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
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.
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.
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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