Timeline November 1793

Events in November 1793 5

• 1736 – 1793 Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793) Died 12 November 1793, aged 57 An astronomer and the first mayor of Paris, Jean Sylvain Bailly had presided over the Estates-General and administered the Tennis Court Oath in 1789. He was guillotined during the Terror after being implicated in a massacre of protesters.
• 1748 – 1793 Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793) Died 3 November 1793, aged 45 A playwright and political activist, Olympe de Gouges wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen in 1791. She was guillotined after being convicted of sedition for her writings criticizing the revolutionary government.
• 1754 – 1793 Manon Roland (1754-1793) Died 8 November 1793, aged 39 A salon hostess and influential voice among the Girondin faction, Manon Roland was guillotined in Paris after being accused of counter-revolutionary conspiracy. Her memoirs, written in prison, became an important account of the Revolution's early years.
• 1761 – 1793 Antoine Barnave (1761-1793) Died 29 November 1793, aged 32 A moderate revolutionary leader and orator, Antoine Barnave had advised the royal family after their failed flight to Varennes. He was guillotined after being convicted of treason for his secret correspondence with Marie Antoinette.
• 1793 Yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia Epidemic kills thousands in the US capital A severe outbreak of yellow fever struck Philadelphia, then the capital of the United States, killing roughly five thousand people and prompting a mass exodus of residents including government officials. The epidemic exposed the limits of contemporary medical knowledge about the disease's transmission.