Great Britain-related events during the year of 1793
Events from the year 1793 in Great Britain .
Incumbents
Events
1 February – French Revolutionary Wars : The French First Republic declares war on Britain, the Dutch Republic and (soon afterwards) Spain .[ 2]
8 April – Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793: From this date, Acts are to be endorsed with the date of royal assent and will come into force on that date unless otherwise specified within; this overturns the previous convention that Acts come into force retrospectively at the date of commencement of the current Parliamentary session.[ 3]
13 April
May – Bennelong and Yemmerrawanne become the first Aboriginal Australians to visit Britain, landing at Falmouth, Cornwall , with Arthur Phillip .
June – the Macartney Embassy , a diplomatic mission to China led by George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney , reaches Canton , but will be rebuffed by the Qianlong Emperor .[ 2]
20 July – Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie 's 1792–1793 Peace River expedition to the Pacific Ocean reaches its goal at Bella Coola, British Columbia , making him the first known person to complete a transcontinental crossing of northern North America .[ 6]
23 August – the Board of Agriculture founded.[ 2]
12 September – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson meets Emma, Lady Hamilton in Naples .[ 7]
18 September–18 December – French Revolutionary Wars: Siege of Toulon – Admiral Hood 's squadron of Royal Navy ships supporting French Royalists is forced to withdraw from Toulon after a successful siege by Napoleon , taking a number of French ships – including the Lutine [ 2]
20 September – British troops from Jamaica land on the island of Saint-Domingue to join the Haitian Revolution in opposition to the French Republic and its newly freed slaves; on 22 September the main French naval base on the island surrenders peacefully to the Royal Navy.[ 8] [ 9]
30 September – Bristol Bridge Riot against tolls: 11 people killed and 45 injured.[ 10] [ 11] [ 12]
5 October – French Revolutionary Wars: Raid on Genoa – the Royal Navy boards and captures French warships sheltering in the neutral port of Genoa .
16 November – Catholic seminarians forced to leave the English College, Douai , settle at St Edmund's College, Ware , Hertfordshire.
Undated
Westminster Quarters first written, for the bells of a new clock at the Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge , by Prof. Joseph Jowett , probably with Prof. John Randall or William Crotch .Lansdown Crescent, Bath , designed by John Palmer , is completed.[ 2] Physician Matthew Baillie publishes The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body , a key text on pathology .
Fritchley Tunnel , the world's oldest surviving railway tunnel is constructed at Fritchley in Derbyshire.Thomas Minton establishes his ceramics manufactory, Thomas Minton and Sons , in Stoke-upon-Trent , Staffordshire .Plymouth Gin Distillery begins production.[ 13]
Births
22 February – Mary Elizabeth Mohl , née Clarke, saloniste (died 1883 in France )
3 March – William Macready , actor (died 1873 )
6 March – William Dick , founder of Edinburgh Veterinary College (died 1866 )
April – Thomas Addison , physician (died 1860 )
1 June
13 July
21 July – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle , politician (d. 1768 )[ 14]
10 August – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute , industrialist (died 1848 )
25 September – Felicia Hemans , poet (died 1835 )
17 November – Charles Lock Eastlake , painter (died 1865 )
3 December – Clarkson Frederick Stanfield , marine painter (died 1867 )
7 December – Joseph Severn , portrait and subject painter (died 1879 )
Sarah Booth , actress (died 1867 )
Deaths
5 January – John Howie , biographer (born 1735 )
1 February – William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington , statesman (born 1717 )
2 February – William Aiton , botanist (born 1731 )
6 February – Thomas Turner , diarist (born 1729 )
20 March – William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield , judge and politician (born 1705 )
26 March – John Mudge , physician and inventor (born 1721 )
29 April – John Michell , scientist (born 1724 )
31 May – Giambattista Tocco, Duke de Sicignano , ambassador of the Kingdom of Naples to London (suicide) (born c. 1760)[ 15]
11 June – William Robertson , historian (born 1721 )
26 June – Gilbert White , ornithologist (born 1720 )
7 October – Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire , politician (born 1718 )
16 October – John Hunter , surgeon (born 1728 )
18 October – Highflyer , racehorse (born 1774 )
See also
References
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