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| 1793 |
| | | Toussaint L'Ouverture, a former slave, joins a Spanish force invading the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) | |
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| 1793 |
| | | The Terror begins in republican France, with executions rising to more than 3000 in December | |
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| 1793 |
| | | English revolutionary Thomas Paine spends nearly a year in a French prison after opposing the execution of Louis XVI | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Napoleon's soldiers capture Toulon and his artillery fire forces the Anglo-Spanish fleet to withdraw from the harbour | |
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| 1794 |
| | | Robespierre and St Just succeed in sending Danton and his faction to the guillotine in April | |
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| 1794 |
| | | French chemist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier is guillotined for having been involved with tax collection in the ancien régime | |
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| 1794 |
| | | The treaty agreed by US envoy John Jay restores some degree of friendship between the USA and Britain | |
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| 1794 |
| | | Goethe and Schiller become friends, and together create the movement known as Weimar classicism | |
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| 1794 |
| | | In his Science of Knowledge Johann Gottlieb Fichte contrasts the I, or Ego, and its opposing non-I, or non-Ego | |
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| 1794 |
| | | Robespierre and his faction go to the guillotine in July, in the final bloodletting of the Terror | |
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| 1794 |
| | | George Washington uses military force to assert government authority on rebels in Pennsylvania refusing to pay a federal tax on whisky | |
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| 1794 |
| | | Virtuoso violinist Nicolo Paganini gives his first public performances, in churches in his native Genoa | |
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| 1794 |
| | | William Blake's volume Songs of Innocence and Experience includes his poem 'Tyger! Tyger! burning bright' | |
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| c. 1795 |
| | | Dutch Boers begin calling themselves Afrikaners, to emphasize that Africa is their native land | |
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| 1795 |
| | | Beethoven makes his first public appearance in Vienna as a pianist, playing either his first or second piano concerto | |
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| 1795 |
| | | Mungo Park sets off on his first expedition to explore the Niger on behalf of the African Association | |
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| 1795 |
| | | Two extra stars are added to the American flag for Vermont and Kentucky, two new states that have joined since the original union of thirteen | |
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| 1795 |
| | | The Netherlands, forced by invasion into the French camp, is transformed into the Batavian republic | |
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| 1795 |
| | | Indian tribes, at peace talks in Fort Greenville, cede much of Ohio to the USA | |
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| 1795 |
| | | Thomas Paine publishes his completed Age of Reason, an attack on conventional Christianity | |
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| 1795 |
| | | After the Fort Greenville concessions, the Shawnee leader Tecumseh emerges as a champion of Indian territorial rights | |
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| 1795 |
| | | A secret Protestant group, the Orange Society, is formed in Co. Armagh to resist Irish nationalism | |
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| 1795 |
| | | The 26-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte comes to public attention for his part in saving the Convention in Paris from an assault by rebels | |
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| 1795 |
| | | With the Dutch entering the war on the side of the French, Britain seizes their valuable Cape colony in South Africa | |
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| 1795 |
| | | Poland's neighbours – Russia, Prussia and Austria – are all on hand for the final partition of the kingdom | |
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| 1795 |
| | | A treaty negotiated by US minister Thomas Pinckney provides a temporary resolution of disputes between Spain and the USA | |
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| 1796 |
| | | Napoleon marries Josephine de Beauharnais, widow of Alexandre de Beauharnais, guillotined in 1794 | |
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| 1796 |
| | | In Berkeley, Gloucestershire, Edward Jenner inoculates a boy with cowpox in the pioneering case of vaccination | |
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| 1796 |
| | | In the armistice of Cherasco the king of Sardinia cedes to France his territories of Savoy and Nice | |
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| 1796 |
| | | Napoleon Bonaparte takes command of the French army of Italy, with astonishingly successful results | |
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| 1796 |
| | | After two rapid victories in north Italy, Napoleon marches on Turin and the king of Sardinia asks for an armistice | |
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| 1796 |
| | | French astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace publishes his nebular hypothesis, arguing that the planets formed from a mass of incandescent gas | |
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| 1796 |
| | | US author Joel Barlow publishes his mock-heroic poem The Hasty Pudding, inspired by a dish eaten in 1793 in France | |
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