Timeline October 1793

Events in October 1793 6

• 1753 – 1793 Pierre Vergniaud (1753-1793) Died 31 October 1793, aged 40 A leading orator of the Girondin faction in the National Convention, Pierre Vergniaud was guillotined along with other Girondin deputies after their trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal. His downfall marked the Jacobins' consolidation of power.
• 1755 – 1793 Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) Died 16 October 1793, aged 37 The Austrian-born queen of France, Marie Antoinette, was tried before the Revolutionary Tribunal and guillotined in Paris. She had become a symbol of royal excess for revolutionaries and a martyr for royalists.
• 1793 Battle of Wattignies French victory lifts the siege of Maubeuge A French army under Jean-Baptiste Jourdan defeated Austrian forces besieging Maubeuge, forcing them to retreat. The victory was an early success for French Revolutionary forces against the First Coalition.
• 1793 Execution of Marie Antoinette French queen guillotined during the Terror Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, was executed by guillotine in Paris after a trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal. Her death became one of the most remembered images of the French Revolution.
• 1793 French Republican Calendar adopted Revolution reorders time itself The National Convention formally adopted a new calendar dividing the year into twelve thirty-day months with new names, retroactively dated from the proclamation of the Republic in September 1792. The calendar remained in official use in France until 1805.
• 1793 Execution of the Girondins Moderate revolutionary faction purged Leading members of the moderate Girondin faction were tried and guillotined in Paris after being accused of conspiracy against the Republic. Their fall marked the ascendancy of the more radical Jacobins under the Committee of Public Safety.