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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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