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1793
 
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Toussaint L'Ouverture, a former slave, joins a Spanish force invading the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti)    See in Google maps   
1793
 
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The Terror begins in republican France, with executions rising to more than 3000 in December      
1793
 
     
English revolutionary Thomas Paine spends nearly a year in a French prison after opposing the execution of Louis XVI        
1793
 
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Napoleon's soldiers capture Toulon and his artillery fire forces the Anglo-Spanish fleet to withdraw from the harbour      
1794
 
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Robespierre and St Just succeed in sending Danton and his faction to the guillotine in April        
1794
 
   
French chemist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier is guillotined for having been involved with tax collection in the ancien régime      
1794
 
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The treaty agreed by US envoy John Jay restores some degree of friendship between the USA and Britain      
1794
 
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Goethe and Schiller become friends, and together create the movement known as Weimar classicism        
1794
 
    
In his Science of Knowledge Johann Gottlieb Fichte contrasts the I, or Ego, and its opposing non-I, or non-Ego       
1794
 
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Robespierre and his faction go to the guillotine in July, in the final bloodletting of the Terror