WHAT HAPPENED IN 1793.
Look what happened the 1793.

The Rhône and Loire départments are created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two. (12. August 1793)

French Revolution: a levée en masse is decreed by the National Convention. (16. August 1793)

French Revolutionary Wars: the city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces. (27. August 1793)

French Revolution: the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror. (5. September 1793)

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote. (8. September 1793)

The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington. (18. September 1793)

French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France. (5. October 1793)

The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina. (12. October 1793)

Queen Marie-Antoinette of France is tried and convicted in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day. (15. October 1793)

Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution. (16. October 1793)

The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory. (16. October 1793)

French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined. (3. November 1793)

William Carey reaches the Hooghly River. (9. November 1793)

A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Chaumette. (10. November 1793)

Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined. (12. November 1793)

French Revolution: Ninety anti-republican Catholic priests are executed by drowning at Nantes. (16. November 1793)

New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster. (9. December 1793)

Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Samuel Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck. (18. December 1793)

The Battle of Savenay: a decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in War in the Vendée during the French Revolution. (23. December 1793)

Second Battle of Wissembourg: France defeat Austria. (26. December 1793)