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Events on Wednesday 16 October 1793 3
1755 – 1793Marie Antoinette (1755-1793)Died 16 October 1793, aged 37The 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.
1793Battle of WattigniesFrench victory lifts the siege of MaubeugeA 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.
1793Execution of Marie AntoinetteFrench queen guillotined during the TerrorMarie 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.