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1793

• The Reign of Terror flourishes in France; Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are beheaded
• Jacobin firebrand Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated by Charlotte Corday
• An uprising in Poland is put down by Russian troops
• Carlo Goldoni dies (February 6)
• The U.S. Congress passes the first Fugitive Slave Law (February 12)
• John Clare is born (July 13)
• Eli Whitney patents his cotton gin, which greatly simplifies the processing of cotton bolls and leads to an increased demand for slave labor to supply the nation’s demand for cotton (March 14)