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| 1793 |
| | | Britain joins other European nations in war against France, mainly in naval engagements in the West Indies and Atlantic | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Lord Buckingham dies and the Marble Hill estate passes to Lady Suffolk's great niece Henrietta Hotham. She lives in the house briefly and then rents it out, living some of the time in Little Marble Hill, a house built in the grounds. | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Russia and Prussia agree on a second partition of Poland | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin, enormously speeding up the process of separating cotton fibres from the seeds | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Rebellion breaks out in the Vendée and a peasant army marches against republican Paris | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Corsica and Napoleon's family flees to France | |
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| 1793 |
| | | George Washington lays the cornerstone for the Congress building on Capitol Hill | |
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| 1793 |
| | | 25-year-old Charlotte Corday gains access to prominent republican Jean-Paul Marat and stabs him in his bath | |
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| 1793 |
| | | France becomes the first nation to attempt national conscription, calling up bachelors between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five | |
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| 1793 |
| | | The US Congress passes Fugitive Slave Laws, enabling southern slave owners to reclaim escaped slaves in northern states | |
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