1793 in Great Britain

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Events from the year 1793 in Great Britain.

## Incumbents

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* Monarch – George III
* Prime Minister – William Pitt the Younger (Tory)[1]
* Foreign Secretary – Lord Grenville

## Events

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* 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
* The Bank of England issues the first £5 note.[4]
* Manchester Penny Post launched, the first such service in the English provinces.[5]
* 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 - with them.[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.

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* 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

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* 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
* Augustus Earle, painter (died 1838)
* Henry Francis Lyte, hymn-writer (died 1847)
* 13 July
* John Clare, "peasant poet" (died 1864)
* George Green, mathematician (died 1841)
* 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

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* 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

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* 1793 in Wales

## References

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1. ^ "History of William Pitt 'The Younger' - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
2. ^ a b c d e Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1793". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
3. ^ The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793, as amended, from the National Archives.
4. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
5. ^ Blake, Richard. The Book of Postal Dates, 1635–1985. Caterham: Marden. p. 5.
6. ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 343–345. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
7. ^ "Timeline: Emma Hamilton". Great Yarmouth: Nelson Museum. 2013. Archived from the original on 26 October 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
8. ^ Perry, James (2005). Arrogant Armies: Great Military Disasters and the Generals Behind Them. Edison: Castle Books. pp. 64–65.
9. ^ "British History Timeline". BBC History. Archived from the original on 9 September 2007. Retrieved 4 September 2007.
10. ^ 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.
11. ^ "'Riot!' The Bristol Bridge Massacre of 1793" (audio file). Bristol Radical History Group. Retrieved 7 March 2007.
12. ^ Manson, Michael (1998). Riot! The Bristol Bridge Massacre of 1793. Past & Present Press.
13. ^ "Plymouth Gin". Attractions in Devon. Archived from the original on 7 February 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
14. ^ "History of Thomas Pelham-Holles 1st Duke of Newcastle - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
15. ^ Lysons, Daniel (1811). The Environs of London: Middlesex. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies. p. 634.

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