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unusual facts about French constitutional referendum, 1793



Antoinette Gabrielle Danton

Back in Paris on 17 February 1793, Danton was so affected by her death that he recruited sculptor Claude André Deseine and brought him by night to Sainte-Catherine cemetery to excavate Charpentier's body and execute a death mask.

Battle of Méribel

The Battle of Méribel took place at Méribel, above Sallanches, Haute-Savoie, France, on 13 September 1793, when the forces of the Duchy of Savoy were defeated by the French Army.

Battle of Saorgio

On 28 February 1793, 12,000 French troops under Lieutenant General Armand Louis de Gontaut, Duke of Biron battled with 7,000 Sardinian soldiers under the Count of Saint-André at Levens.

Cameron Highlanders

The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (1793–1961), former infantry regiment of the British Army

Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie

In March 1793, the war in the Vendée breaks loose and Sapinaud joins the insurgents serving under his uncle Charles Sapinaud de La Verrie, himself under the orders of Charles de Royrand, chief general of the Vendéens of the Catholic and Royal army of the Centre which originated from the east side of the Vendée department.

Claude Antoine, comte Prieur-Duvernois

In 1793 he was a representative on mission surveying the ports of Lorient and Dunkirk, but he was arrested in Normandy upon the fall of the Girondists (June 1793) by the rebel authorities of Caen, and only released in July 1793 after the defeat of their forces at Vernon.

Diên Khánh District

The Citadel was built by the French officer Olivier de Puymanel for Nguyễn Ánh in 1793 with an area of 36,000 square meters according to the Vauban military architecture which was popular in Western Europe in 17th - 18th centuries.

Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Her niece Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, daughter of Duke Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, married Frederick William III of Hohenzollern in 1793 and became queen consort of Prussia in 1797.

Eden Agreement

The treaty collapsed in 1793, following claims in the National Convention that the Aliens Act 1793 breached the terms of the treaty and the outbreak of war in early February between Great Britain and France ended any chance of a compromise.

Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough

These were John Law (1745–1810), bishop of Elphin; Thomas Law (1759–1834), who settled in the United States in 1793, and married, as his second wife, Eliza Custis, a granddaughter of Martha Washington; and George Henry Law (1761–1845), bishop of Chester and of Bath and Wells.

Epileptic spasms

It is named after the English physician, William James West (1793–1848), who first described it in an article published in The Lancet in 1841.

Federalist revolts

The federalist revolts were uprisings which broke out from 2 June to December 1793 in the French provinces, after the 'Days of 31 May and 2 June 1793' during which the Jacobins eliminated the Girondins from the French National Convention.

Fort York

In 1793, Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe authorized a garrison on the present site of Fort York, just west of the mouth of Garrison Creek on the north eastern shore of Lake Ontario.

French Aerostatic Corps

Numerous suggestions had been made for the use of balloons during the French Revolutionary Wars, and in 1793 the Committee of Public Safety began testing their potential.

French constitutional referendum, 1800

A referendum ratifying the constitution of the French consulate was held in January 1800.

French theatre of the late 18th century

For example, in December 1793, a member of the Committee for Public Safety, Bertrand Barère, demanded that playwrights create work about the French capture of Toulon.

Gaunless Bridge

Pont-y-Cafnau, an earlier iron bridge of 1793, although built for a wagonway rather than a railway

Hendrik Meijer

Hendrik de Meijer (1744-1793), painter from the Northern Netherlands

Italy national cricket team

The earliest mention of cricket in Italy is of a match played by Admiral Nelson's sailors in Naples in 1793.

Jean-Louis Laneuville

During the French Revolution (1789–95) he portrayed deputies to the Convention, including Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac (1792-3; Kunsthalle Bremen), Pierre-François-Joseph Robert and Joseph Delaunay (1793; Palace of Versailles) and Jules-François Paré (1795; Carnavalet Museum).

Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve

He was elected in March 1793 to the first Committee of Public Safety; and he attacked Robespierre, who had accused him of having known and having kept secret Dumouriez's project of treason.

Johann Stadler

Like his more famous brother Anton, Johann Nepomuk Stadler started out as an employee of the Russian ambassador in Vienna, Dmitry Mikhaylovich Galitzine (1721–1793).

John Crewe, 2nd Baron Crewe

In 1793, when he held the rank of a lieutenant, he was a member of the Macartney Embassy to China, led by Lord Macartney, who was his mother's cousin.

John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare

FitzGibbon opposed the Irish Catholic Relief Act of 1793 personally, but apparently recommended its acceptance (Although he opposed the act personally he recommended its acceptance in the House of Lords) of 1793, being forced out of necessity when that Act had been recommended to the Irish Executive by the British Cabinet led by William Pitt the Younger.

John Stuart, Count of Maida

He took part in the sieges and battles of the 1793 campaign, Valenciennes, Lincelles, Dunkirk and Lannoy.

Joseph McDowell, Jr.

He is sometimes credited as also having served in the 3rd United States Congress (1793–1795), but according to the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, it was his cousin, Joseph "Pleasant Gardens" McDowell, who served at that time.

Kłobuck

For hundreds of centuries, until 1793 (see Partitions of Poland), the town belonged to Lelów County of Kraków Voivodeship.

Landévennec Abbey

It existed from its foundation at Landévennec, traditionally by Winwaloe in the late fifth century, to 1793, when the monastery was abandoned and sold.

Lines of Weissenburg

The Lines were stormed on 13 October 1793 by an allied army under Austrian General Dagobert von Wurmser in the First Battle of Wissembourg.

Louis de Noailles

Louis de Noailles, 4th Duke of Noailles (21 April 1713, Versailles – 22 August 1793, Saint-Germain-en-Laye) was a French peer and Marshal of France.

Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau

Guyton de Morveau served on the Committee of Public Safety from 6 April 1793 to 10 July 1793, when he resigned in order to devote his time to the manufacture of firearms, and formation of a corps of balloonists for the French Revolutionary Army.

Loyalty Islands

The first Western contact on record is attributed to the British Captain William Raven from the London trading ship Britannia, who in 1793 was on his way from Norfolk Island to Batavia.

Ludwig Thienemann

Friedrich August Ludwig Thienemann ( 25 December 1793, Freyburg – 24 June 1858, Dresden) was a German physician and naturalist.

Marc David Alba Lasource

He also served as a member of the Committee of General Security (24 January 1793 - April 1793) and as President of the National Convention (18 April 1793 - 2 May 1793).

Marie de Sales Chappuis

Venerable Marie de Sales Chappuis, was born Marie-Thérèse Chappuis (16 June 1793 in Soyhières, today in the Canton of Jura in Switzerland and at that time in the Département du Mont-Terrible in France – 6 October 1875 in Troyes, Aube, France) was a Roman Catholic nun and a spiritual leader in the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary.

Marko Bruerović

In 1793 he was engaged for 4 years in diplomatic work in Travnik (Bosnia and Herzegovina) as merchant attaché, where he also helped the Jewish merchants (based in Sarajevo).

Maxime Julien Émeriau de Beauverger

From 1793, Emeriau captained the Embuscade, taking part in, under Pierre Jean Van Stabel, in the escort of the grain convoy that was the background for the Glorious First of June.

Military General Service Medal

The MGSM was approved on 1 June 1847 as a retrospective award for various military actions from 1793–1814; a period encompassing the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Anglo-American War of 1812.

Oceanic Eclectus Parrot

On Vava'u, it may have survived into historic times because among the drawings which were created in 1793 during Alessandro Malaspina's Pacific expedition, there is one sketch which appears to portray an Oceanic Eclectus Parrot.

Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras

In January 1793 he voted with the majority for the execution of King Louis XVI.

Pestel

Pavel Pestel (1793-1826), revolutionary leader in Russia's 1825 Decembrist revolt

Queen Street West

Since the original survey in 1793 by Sir Alexander Aitkin, commissioned by Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe, Queen Street has had many names.

Rennell and Bellona Province

The first known European to sight the islands was Mathew Boyd of Camberwell, London, Commander of the merchant ship, Bellona, in 1793.

Rezin Bowie

Rezin Pleasant Bowie (September 8, 1793 – January 17, 1841) was an American inventor and designer of the Bowie knife.

Robert Home

He visited Mahabalipuram in January/February 1793 and the two paintings he painted as a result, titled Ruins of Mahabalipuram are now in the collection of The Asiatic Society, Kolkata.

Samuel Story

In 1793, he was appointed captain of the frigate Pollux (40 guns) at Hellevoetsluis.

Schloss Favorite

Lustschloss Favorite (Mainz), baroque chateaux that existed between 1722 and 1793 in Mainz, Germany

St Mary's College, Wellington

Part of the land on which the school is situated was donated by Lord Petre, the 11th Baron Petre (1793-1850), who was a director of the New Zealand Company and whose family seat Thorndon Hall in Essex was an important centre of Catholic Recusancy from the time of Queen Elizabeth I.

Strasburg, Pennsylvania

However, in 1793 construction on the new Strasburg Road started, roughly following the old road, passing through West Chester on the way to Philadelphia.

Une sorte de justice

He was sentenced to death on 31 August 1793 and executed by guillotine in the commune of La Roche-Bernard on 5 September 1793.


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