Page 3: Historical Events In 1793

Jun 04   Jan Ekels de Young, Dutch painter, dies at 34.   

Jun 10   1st public zoo opens in Paris.   

Jun 11   1st American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick   

Jun 16   Louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies   

Jun 20   Eli Whitney applies for a cotton gin patent   

Jun 20   Eli Whitney patents his cotton gin.   

Jun 24   1st republican constitution in France adopted   

Jun 24   The inaugural republican constitution in France adopted.   

Jun 26   Gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies.   

Jul 01   Yellow fever attacks Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States killing several thousand people   

Jul 01   Yellow fever attacks Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, killing several thousand people.   

Jul 02   Antoine Prumier, composer   

Jul 03   John Claire, England, poet   

Jul 04   Franz Xaver Pechacek, composer   

Jul 05   Pavel I Pestel, Russian officer   

Jul 06   Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch lawyer/min of Internal Affairs (1848-49).   

Jul 13   French rev writer Jean Paul Marat murdered by Charlotte Corday   

Jul 13   Jean Paul Marat French revolutionary, murdered by Charlotte Corday.   

Jul 13   Jean Paul Marat, French revolutionary, murdered by Charlotte Corday.   

Jul 13   Jean Paul Marat, one of the leaders of the French revolution, is murdered   

Jul 13   John Clare, Northamptonshire peasant poet (Shepard's Calendar).   

Jul 14   Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist, dies in battle at 44.   

Jul 17   Charlotte Corday, murderer (Jean-Paul Marat), is guillotined   

Jul 20   Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer (Pan Jowiolski).   

Jul 22   Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the inaugural Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada   

Jul 23   Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer.   

Jul 23   The Prussians conquer Mayence   

Jul 23   Thomas Mckean, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 72.   

Jul 24   France passes 1st copyright law.   

Jul 29   John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there   

Jul 30   Josepf Francois Snel, composer.   

Aug 01   France is recorded as becoming 1st country to use the metric system   

Aug 01   The metric unit of mass, the kilogram, is introduced in France   

Aug 08   The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution   

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Jan 03   Lucretia coffin mott: Us, teacher/minister/abolitionist/feminist   

Jan 06   James madison porter: American politician   

Jan 14   John c. clark: American politician    

Jan 18   William henry havergal: Composer   

Feb 06   Pietro rovelli: Composer   

Mar 02   Sam[uel] houston: 1st president of texas (1836-38, 1841-44)   

Mar 03   Ch sealsfield: Writer   

Mar 03   William charles macready: English actor    

Jan 01   Francesco guardi: Italian painter,    

Jan 04   Bengt lidner: Swedish poet (medea/yttersa domen),    

Jan 21   Louis xvi: French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38   

Feb 01   William wildman shute barrington: British statesman (b. 1717)   

Feb 02   William aiton: English botanist (kew gardens),   

Feb 06   Carlo goldoni: Italian author (l'avaro),    

Mar 02   Carl gustaf pilo: Swedish-born artist   

Mar 04   Isaac ouwater: Amsterdam painter/cartoonist,