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Scottish painter Henry Raeburn depicts the Reverend Robert Walker skating on Duddingston Loch
English author Mary Wollstonecraft publishes a passionately feminist work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Thomas Paine moves hurriedly to France, to escape a charge of treason in England for opinions expressed in his Rights of Man
A French revolutionary army defeats the Austrians and Prussians at Valmy, and thus saves Paris from attack
After their success at Valmy, French republican armies overrun much of the Austrian Netherlands
During four September days, thugs are encouraged to massacre some 1400 aristocrats and priests held in Paris prisons
Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific coast of Canada, becoming the first known person to cross the north American continent
The National Convention abolishes royalty in France and establishes the first republic
George III sends Lord Macartney on an embassy to the Chinese emperor Qianlong
Napoleon's soldiers capture Toulon and his artillery fire forces the Anglo-Spanish fleet to withdraw from the harbour
Louis XVI is guillotined after a majority of just one in the national Convention has voted for death without delay
Britain joins other European nations in war against France, mainly in naval engagements in the West Indies and Atlantic
Russia and Prussia agree on a second partition of Poland
Rebellion breaks out in the Vendée and a peasant army marches against republican Paris
25-year-old Charlotte Corday gains access to prominent republican Jean-Paul Marat and stabs him in his bath
France becomes the first nation to attempt national conscription, calling up bachelors between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five
Horatio Nelson, with his ship docked in Naples, meets Lady Hamilton, wife of the British envoy
The French Convention adopts imaginative names for the months in their new republican calendar
The Terror begins in republican France, with executions rising to more than 3000 in December
English revolutionary Thomas Paine spends nearly a year in a French prison after opposing the execution of Louis XVI
Robespierre and St Just succeed in sending Danton and his faction to the guillotine in April
French chemist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier is guillotined for having been involved with tax collection in the ancien régime
The treaty agreed by US envoy John Jay restores some degree of friendship between the USA and Britain
Goethe and Schiller become friends, and together create the movement known as Weimar classicism
Robespierre and his faction go to the guillotine in July, in the final bloodletting of the Terror
