1793 in Great Britain

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1793 English cricket season

Events from the year 1793 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch – George III
• Prime Minister – William Pitt the Younger (Tory)
• Parliament – 17th

Events

• 1 February – French Revolutionary Wars: The French First Republic declares war on Britain, the Dutch Republic and (soon afterwards) Spain.[1]
• 13 April
  • The Bank of England issues the first £5 note.[2]
  • Manchester Penny Post launched, the first such service in the English provinces.[3]
• May – Bennelong and Yemmerrawanne become the first Aboriginal Australians to visit Britain, landing at Falmouth, Cornwall, with Arthur Phillip.
• 31 May – The ambassador of the Kingdom of Naples to Great Britain, Giambattista Tocco, Duke de Sicignano, commits suicide in London.[4]
• 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.[1]
• 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.[5]
• 23 August – the Board of Agriculture founded.[1]
• 12 September – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson meets Emma, Lady Hamilton in Naples.[6]
• 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 – with them.[1]
• 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.[7][8]
• 30 September – Bristol Bridge Riot against tolls: 11 people killed and 45 injured.[9][10][11]
• 5 October – French Revolutionary Wars: Raid on Genoa – the Royal Navy boards and captures French warships sheltering in the neutral port of Genoa.

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.[1]
• 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.[12]

Births

• 22 February – Mary Elizabeth Mohl, née Clarke, saloniste (died 1883 in France)
• 3 March – William Charles Macready, actor (died 1873)
• 6 March – William Dick, founder of Edinburgh Veterinary College (died 1866)
• 1 June
  • Augustus Earle, painter (died 1838)
  • Henry Francis Lyte, hymn-writer (died 1847)
• 25 September – Felicia Hemans, poet (died 1835)
• 17 November – Charles Lock Eastlake, painter (died 1865)
• Sarah Booth, actress (died 1867)

Deaths

• 5 January – John Howie, biographer (born 1735)
• 1 February – William Wildman Shute 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)
• 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)

References

1. Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1793". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
2. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
3. Blake, Richard. The Book of Postal Dates, 1635–1985. Caterham: Marden. p. 5.
4. Daniel Lysons (1811). The Environs of London: Middlesex. T. Cadell and W. Davies. p. 634.
5. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 343–345. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
6. "Timeline: Emma Hamilton". Great Yarmouth: Nelson Museum. 2013. Archived from the original on 26 October 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
7. Perry, James (2005). Arrogant Armies: Great Military Disasters and the Generals Behind Them. Edison: Castle Books. pp. 64–65.
8. "British History Timeline". BBC History. Archived from the original on 9 September 2007. Retrieved 4 September 2007.
9. Jones, Philip D. (1980). "The Bristol Bridge Riot and Its Antecedents: Eighteenth-Century Perception of the Crowd". The Journal of British Studies. 19 (2): 74–92. doi:10.1086/385756. Archived from the original on 3 April 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
10. "'Riot!' The Bristol Bridge Massacre of 1793" (audio file). Bristol Radical History Group. Retrieved 7 March 2007.
11. Manson, Michael (1998). Riot! The Bristol Bridge Massacre of 1793. Past & Present Press.
12. "Plymouth Gin". Attractions in Devon. Archived from the original on 7 February 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2009.

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