| 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. |
| 1793 | France [painting] | The French artist Jacques-Louis David paints The Death of Marat, depicting the assassinated revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat dead in his bath. |
| 1793 | Spain [painting] | The Spanish artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes paints Burial of the Sardine. |
| 1793 | Germany [philosophy] | The German philosopher Immanuel Kant publishes Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen des blossen Vernunft/Religion within the Boundaries of Reason, in which he argues that although belief in God cannot be established by reason, it is acceptably based on ‘practical reason’. |
| 1793 | England [poetry] | The English writer and artist William Blake publishes his Marriage of Heaven and Hell. His major prose work with his own engravings, it is a satire on conventional religion and morality. |
| 1793 | France [media and communication] | French inventor Claude Chappe originates semaphore and builds a long-distance signalling system in France. |
| 1793 | Germany [education] | Johann Friedrich Guts Muth's Gymnastik für die Jugend/Gymnastics for the Young, a pioneering work on physical education, is published. |
| 1793 | Russia, Crimea-Ottoman [political events] | Russia annexes the Khanate of the Crimea – including the Kuban region of the western Caucasus – following the steady growth of Russian influence in the Khanate after the 1774 Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainardzhi had confirmed its independence from the Ottoman Empire. |
| 21 January 1793 | France [births and deaths] | Louis XVI, King of France 1774–92, now known as ‘Citizen Capet’, is guillotined in Paris, France (38). |
| 1 February 1793 | France, UK, United Netherlands [French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1801)] | France declares war on Britain and the Dutch Republic. |
| 13 February 1793 | France, UK, Austria-HM, Prussia, Spain [French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1801)] | The First Coalition against France is formed by Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, the Dutch Republic, Spain, and Sardinia. |
| 7 March 1793 | France, Spain [French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1801)] | France declares war on Spain. Spanish forces invade the French-occupied territories of Roussillon and Navarre on the border between the two countries. |
| 13 March 1793 | France [French Revolution] | French royalists revolt in the Vendée, west France, against the revolutionary government. |
| 18 March 1793 | France, Austrian Netherlands, Belgium, Austria-HM [French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1801)] | French forces under General Charles-François Dumouriez are defeated at Neerwinden in the Netherlands by Austrian forces under Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg, leading to the Austrian reconquest of the Austrian Netherlands. |
| 6 April 1793 | France [administration] | The Committee of Public Safety is established in France as the executive organ of the revolutionary government, effectively headed by the Jacobin leader Georges Danton. |
| 7 May 1793 | Poland, Russia, Prussia [political events] | The Second Partition of Poland is effected, with half of Poland's remaining territory being divided between Russia and Prussia. Russia takes Lithuania and west Ukraine; Prussia takes Danzig (Gdansk), Thorn (Torun), Posen (Poznan), Gnesen (Gniezno), and Kalisch (Kalisz). |
| 2 June 1793 | France [French Revolution] | The final overthrow of the Girondins by the Jacobins, and the arrest of the Girondin leader, Jacques Brissot, begins the Reign of Terror in France. |
| 10 June 1793 | France [everyday life] | The world's first public zoo opens in Paris, France. |
| 1 August 1793 | France [weights and measures] | The first metric weight system is introduced, in France. |
| 5 October 1793 | France [religious freedom] | The revolutionary government in France abolishes Christianity. |
| 16 October 1793 | France, Holy Roman Empire [births and deaths] | Marie-Antoinette, Queen Consort of King Louis XVI of France, 11th daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and Maria Theresa, is guillotined on the orders of the Committee of Public Safety in Paris, France (37). |
| 1 November 1793 | England [births and deaths] | Lord George Gordon, English lord who in 1780 instigated the Gordon riots against the Catholic Relief Act, dies in Newgate prison, London, England (41). |
