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| 1791 |
| | | Mozart dies, at the age of just 35, leaving his Requiem unfinished | |
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| 1791 |
| | | The first ten amendments to the US Constitution, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, are ratified by the states | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Thomas Paine publishes the first part of The Rights of Man, his reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France | |
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| 1792 |
| | | The Swedish king Gustavus III is assassinated at a midnight masquerade in Stockholm – an event later dramatized by Verdi | |
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| 1792 |
| | | France declares war on the Austrian emperor, an event that plunges Europe into more than 20 years of conflict | |
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| 1792 |
| | | In a first demonstration of the gullotine, a highwayman is beheaded in a Paris square | |
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| 1792 |
| | | A French officer, Rouget de Lisle, writes a stirring anthem for France, soon to be known as the Marseillaise | |
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| c. 1792 |
| | | Scottish painter Henry Raeburn depicts the Reverend Robert Walker skating on Duddingston Loch | |
|  | Raeburn, The Reverend Robert Walker Skating (detail)
National Gallery of Scotland
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| 1792 |
| | | George Washington is unanimously elected for a second term as president of the USA | |
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| 1792 |
| | | The Brazilian rebel Tiradentes is beheaded in public in Rio de Janeiro as a warning to would-be revolutionaries | |
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| 1792 |
| | | Charlotte Square in Edinburgh begins to be built to the design of Robert Adam | |
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| 1792 |
| | | English author Mary Wollstonecraft publishes a passionately feminist work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | |
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| 1792 |
| | | Thomas Paine moves hurriedly to France, to escape a charge of treason in England for opinions expressed in his Rights of Man | |
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| 1792 |
| | | A French revolutionary army defeats the Austrians and Prussians at Valmy, and thus saves Paris from attack | |
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| 1792 |
| | | After their success at Valmy, French republican armies overrun much of the Austrian Netherlands | |
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| 1792 |
| | | During four September days, thugs are encouraged to massacre some 1400 aristocrats and priests held in Paris prisons | |
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| 1792 |
| | | Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific coast of Canada, becoming the first known person to cross the north American continent | |
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| 1792 |
| | | The National Convention abolishes royalty in France and establishes the first republic | |
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| 1792 |
| | | The first political parties, Hamilton's Federalists and Jefferson's Republicans, emerge in the USA | |
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| 1792 |
| | | George III sends Lord Macartney on an embassy to the Chinese emperor Qianlong | |
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| 1792 |
| | | Beethoven leaves Bonn and goes to Vienna to study composition with Haydn | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Louis XVI is guillotined after a majority of just one in the national Convention has voted for death without delay | |
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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 |
| | | 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 |
| | | 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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| 1793 |
| | | Horatio Nelson, with his ship docked in Naples, meets Lady Hamilton, wife of the British envoy | |
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| 1793 |
| | | The French Convention adopts imaginative names for the months in their new republican calendar | |
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