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Feb 11, 1793 |
French Revolution: England declares war on France. |
*French Revolution |
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Feb 14, 1793 |
William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness. |
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Feb 26, 1793 |
Arthur Young, The Example of France, A Warning to Britain. (Popular opinion in England begins to turn against France and, with it, against reform of the British government.) |
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Mar 10, 1793 |
French Revolution: Establishment of the Revolutionary Tribunal (according to some accounts, the unofficial beginning of the Terror; between March 1793 and July 1794, 17,000 people were executed in France). |
*French Revolution |
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Mar 11, 1793 |
French Revolution: Revolt of La Vendée (really the beginning of Civil War in France): an uprising of French royalists vs. the Republican government. |
*French Revolution |
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Apr 1793 |
Ireland: Relief Act granting Irish Catholics parliamentary franchise and certain civil and military rights. St. Patrick's [Catholic] College, Carlow, opened. |
*Ireland |
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Apr 30, 1793 |
The second general convention of Scottish reformers in Edinburgh. |
*Scotland |
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May 1793 |
William Frend is tried by a University Court and banished from Cambridge. |
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May 1793 |
The British Critic begins publication. |
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May 6, 1793 |
Grey's motion on reform: petitions from radical societies are presented to parliament. The petitions are dismissed as disrespectful and tabled; the motion is defeated 282 to 41. |
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May 31, 1793 - June 2, 1793 |
French Revolution: Insurrection leading to arrest of the Girondins in the 1793 National Convention. |
*French Revolution |
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June 15, 1793 |
The Association of the Friends of the Liberty of the Press has its last meeting (too heterogenous a group to hold together). |
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July 1793 |
William Wordsworth tours western England and Wales (including Salisbury Plain, Tintern Abbey, Goodrich Castle). His travel over Salisbury Plain alone on foot (and nap at Stonehenge) leads to the writing of Salisbury Plain, largely composed between now and Sept. of this year, with some work in 1794. (The poem was later revised and expanded between 1795 and 1798 as Adventures on Salisbury Plain; then further altered in 1841 as Guilt and Sorrow; or Incidents upon Salisbury Plain, pub. 1842.) He later remembers this first visit to the Tintern Abbey area in "Tintern Abbey" (1798) after a second visit calls it to mind. |
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July 13, 1793 |
French Revolution: Jean-Paul Marat murdered in his bathtub by a knife-wielding Charlotte Corday (see 17 July). |
*French Revolution |
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July 17, 1793 |
French Revolution: Execution of Charlotte Corday (who assassinated the revolutionary journalist Jean-Paul Marat) officially begins the Terror. |
*French Revolution |
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July 27, 1793 |
French Revolution: Robespierre elected to the Committee of Public Safety. |
*French Revolution |
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Aug 1793 - Sept 1793 |
Scottish radicals Muir and Palmer are sentenced to 7-14 years transportation to Botany Bay by Chief Justice in Edinburgh, Lord Braxfield. |
*Scotland |
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Aug 10, 1793 |
French Revolution: Festival of Republican Reunion; Montagnards (radical Jacobins) and sans-culottes (more of a working-class group than a political party) celebrate their collective victory over the king in 1792 and over the Girondins now. |
*French Revolution |
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Sept 1793 |
Robert Burns, "Scots, wha hae?" a poem responding to outrageous severity of the sentence received by Scotch radicals Muir and Palmer. |
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Sept 5, 1793 |
French Revolution: uprising in Paris; institution of "Terror" as "the order of the day" in the National Convention. |
*French Revolution |
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Sept 17, 1793 |
French Revolution: "The Law of Suspects"; Hébertists push through a law mandating incarceration of suspected traitors to the new regime. |
*French Revolution |
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Sept 25, 1793 |
Felicia Browne (Hemans) born in Liverpool. |
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Oct 1793 |
Execution of Mme. Roland and other leading Girondins. |
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Oct 5, 1793 |
French Revolution: adoption of the revolutionary calendar. |
*French Revolution |
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Oct 16, 1793 |
French Revolution: Execution of Marie-Antoinette. |
*French Revolution |
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