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| * [[Claude Chappe]] successfully demonstrates the first [[semaphore line]], between Paris and Lille. | * [[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. | * [[Mary Wollstonecraft]]'s ''[[A Vindication of the Rights of Woman]]'' is published. | ||
| * [[Denmark]] is the first country in the world to outlaw [[slavery]]. | * [[Denmark]] is the first country in the world to outlaw [[slavery]]. | ||
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| * [[August 25]] – [[Jacques Cazotte]], French writer (b. [[1719]]) | * [[August 25]] – [[Jacques Cazotte]], French writer (b. [[1719]]) | ||
| - | * [[September 3]] – [[Marie-Louise, princesse de Lamballe|Princesse de Lamballe]], French princess, friend of [[Marie Antoinette]] (murdered during the French Revolution) (b. [[1749]]) | + | * [[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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Art and culture
- 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 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.
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Births
- 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 – Princesse de Lamballe, French princess, friend of Marie Antoinette (murdered during the French Revolution) (b. 1749)
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