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 +* [[Claude Chappe]] successfully demonstrates the first [[semaphore line]], between Paris and Lille.
 +* [[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]]
 +*[[April 25]]
 +** [[Highwayman]] [[Nicolas Jacques Pelletier|Nicolas Pelletier]] becomes the first person executed by [[guillotine]] in France.
 +** ''[[La Marseillaise]]'', the [[France|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]] [[bishop]]s and more than 200 [[priest]]s.
 +* [[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 [[trial in absentia|tried ''in absentia'']] during December and [[outlaw]]ed.
 +* [[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 [[Calendar era|Era]] of the historical [[French Republican Calendar]] begins.
 +* [[December 26]] – The trial of [[Louis XVI of France]] begins.
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-*''[[A Vindication of the Rights of Woman]]'' by [[Mary Wollstonecraft]] 
-*[[Goya becomes deaf]] 
== Births == == Births ==
-==Deaths == 
-* [[Princesse de Lamballe]] +* [[August 4]] – [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], British poet (d. [[1822]])
 +* [[November 28]] – [[Victor Cousin]], French philosopher (d. [[1867]])
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 +== Deaths ==
 +* [[August 25]] – [[Jacques Cazotte]], French writer (b. [[1719]])
 +* [[September 3]] – [[Princess Marie Louise of Savoy|Princesse de Lamballe]], French princess, friend of [[Marie Antoinette]] (murdered during the French Revolution) (b. [[1749]])
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