Timeline December 1793

Events in December 1793 2

• 1743 – 1793 Madame du Barry (1743-1793) Died 8 December 1793, aged 50 Jeanne Becu, Comtesse du Barry, had been the last official mistress of King Louis XV of France. She was guillotined in Paris during the Reign of Terror after being denounced as a counter-revolutionary.
• 1793 Siege of Toulon Royalist port city besieged by revolutionary forces Republican forces besieged the Mediterranean port of Toulon after royalist rebels had handed the city and its fleet to British and Spanish forces. A young artillery officer named Napoleon Bonaparte distinguished himself in the siege, which ended with the city's recapture in December.