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| * [[Denmark]] is the first country in the world to outlaw [[slavery]]. | * [[Denmark]] is the first country in the world to outlaw [[slavery]]. | ||
| *[[Goya becomes deaf]] | *[[Goya becomes deaf]] | ||
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| * [[April 25]] | * [[April 25]] | ||
| ** [[Highwayman]] [[Nicolas Jacques Pelletier|Nicolas Pelletier]] becomes the first person executed by [[guillotine]] in France. | ** [[Highwayman]] [[Nicolas Jacques Pelletier|Nicolas Pelletier]] becomes the first person executed by [[guillotine]] in France. | ||
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Art and culture
- Claude Chappe successfully demonstrates the first semaphore line, between Paris and Lille.
- William Murdoch begins experimenting with gas lighting.
- Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is published.
- Denmark is the first country in the world to outlaw slavery.
- Goya becomes deaf
Dated
- April 25
- Highwayman Nicolas Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine in France.
- La Marseillaise, the French national anthem, is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
- August 10 – French Revolution: The Tuileries Palace is stormed, and Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
- September 2 – During what becomes known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops and more than 200 priests.
- September 11 – Six men steal some of the former French Crown Jewels from a warehouse where the revolutionary government had stored them.
- September 14 – Thomas Paine flees from England to France after being indicted for treason. He is tried in absentia during December and outlawed.
- September 21 – Proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy by the French Convention and establishment of the French First Republic with effect from the following day.
- September 22 – The Era of the historical French Republican Calendar begins.
- December 26 – The trial of Louis XVI of France begins.
Births
- February 10 – Captain Frederick Marryat, British author (d. 1848)
- February 29 – Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer (d. 1868)
- March 7 – John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)
- May 17 – Anne Isabella Milbanke, English wife of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (d. 1860)
- August 4 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, British poet (d. 1822)
- November 28 – Victor Cousin, French philosopher (d. 1867)
Deaths
January–June
- February 15 – John Witherspoon
- February 23 – Sir Joshua Reynolds, British painter (b. 1723)
- March 1 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
- March 3 – Robert Adam, British architect (b. 1728)
- March 10 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1713)
- March 29 – King Gustav III of Sweden (assassinated) (b. 1746)
- April 3 – George Pocock, British admiral (b. 1706)
- April 4 – James Sykes, American politician (b. 1725)
- April 14 – Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (b. 1720)
- April 23 – Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and adventurer (b. 1741)
- April 30 – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (b. 1718)
- May 10 – John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress
- May 12 – Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (b. 1710)
- May 24 – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, British naval officer (b. 1718)
- June 4 – John Burgoyne, British general (b. 1723)
July–December
- July 3 – Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (b. 1721)
- July 18 – John Paul Jones, American naval captain (b. 1747)
- July 29 – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
- August 5 – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1732)
- August 25 – Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)
- September 3 – Princesse de Lamballe, French princess, friend of Marie Antoinette (murdered during the French Revolution) (b. 1749)
- September 8 – Charles d'Abancourt, French statesman (b. 1758)
- September 18 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (b. 1704)
- September 25 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b. 1710)
- September 29 – George Browne, Russian-Irish field-marshal (b. 1698)
- October 7 – George Mason, American patriot (b. 1725)
- October 14 – Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (b. 1714)
- October 22 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)
- October 28
- Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710)
- John Smeaton, English civil engineer (b. 1724)
- December 15 – Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish composer (b. 1756)
- date unknown – Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab, Arabic preacher (b. 1703)
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