May 12 » Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
May 19 » Jean-Pierre Christin developed the centigrade temperature scale.
June 27 » In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.
September 13 » Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.
Day of death August 17, 1793
The temperature on August 17, 1793 was about 16.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
May 23 » Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
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 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.
November 16 » French Revolution: Ninety dissident Roman Catholic priests are executed by drowning at Nantes.
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