Timeline July 1793

Events in July 1793 3

• 1743 – 1793 Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793) Died 13 July 1793, aged 50 A radical journalist and politician, Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday, a Girondin sympathizer. His assassination made him a martyr of the Revolution, commemorated in Jacques-Louis David's famous painting.
• 1793 Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat Girondin sympathizer stabs the radical journalist Charlotte Corday, a Girondin sympathizer, stabbed the radical journalist and politician Jean-Paul Marat to death in his bath in Paris. His death turned him into a martyr of the Revolution and intensified the Terror against perceived enemies of the Republic.
• 1793 Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean overland First recorded crossing of North America north of Mexico Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie and his party reached the Pacific coast near present-day Bella Coola, British Columbia, completing the first known overland crossing of North America north of Mexico. The journey opened new routes for the fur trade across the continent.