1793 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1793 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

1 February - French Revolutionary Wars: The French First Republic declares war on Britain, the Dutch Republic and (soon afterwards) Spain.^[1]
15 April
- The Bank of England issues the first £5 note.^[2]
- Manchester Penny Post launched, the first such service in the English provinces.^[3]
June - The Macartney Embassy, a diplomatic mission to China led by George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, reaches Canton, but will be rebuffed by the Qianlong Emperor.^[1]
20 July - Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie's 1792–1793 Peace River expedition to the Pacific Ocean reaches its goal at Bella Coola, British Columbia, making him the first known person to complete a transcontinental crossing of northern North America.^[4]
23 August - The Board of Agriculture founded.^[1]
18 September–18 December - French Revolutionary Wars: Siege of Toulon - Admiral Hood's squadron of Royal Navy ships supporting French Royalists is forced to withdraw from Toulon after a successful siege by Napoleon, taking a number of French ships – including the Lutine – with them.^[1]
30 September - Bristol Bridge Riot against tolls: 11 people killed and 45 injured.^[5]^[6]^[7]
5 October - French Revolutionary Wars: Raid on Genoa - The Royal Navy boards and captures French warships sheltering in the neutral port of Genoa.

British troops invade the island of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) to suppress a slave rebellion but are forced to withdraw by disease and the army of Toussaint Louverture.^[8]
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson meets Emma, Lady Hamilton in Naples.^[1]
Westminster Quarters first written, for the bells of a new clock at the Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge, by Prof. Joseph Jowett, probably with Prof. John Randall or William Crotch.
Lansdown Crescent, Bath, designed by John Palmer, is completed.^[1]
Fritchley Tunnel, the world's oldest surviving railway tunnel is constructed at Fritchley in Derbyshire.
Thomas Minton establishes his ceramics manufactory, Thomas Minton and Sons, in Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire.
Plymouth Gin Distillery begins production.^[9]

5 January - John Howie, biographer (born 1735)
1 February - William Wildman Shute Barrington, statesman (born 1717)
2 February - William Aiton, botanist (born 1731)
6 February – Thomas Turner, diarist (born 1729)
20 March - William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, judge and politician (born 1705)
26 March - John Mudge, physician and inventor (born 1721)
29 April - John Michell, scientist (born 1724)
11 June - William Robertson, historian (born 1721)
26 June - Gilbert White, ornithologist (born 1720)
7 October - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, politician (born 1718)
16 October - John Hunter, surgeon (born 1728)
18 October - Highflyer, racehorse (born 1774)

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1793". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ Blake, Richard. The Book of Postal Dates, 1635-1985. Caterham: Marden. p. 5.
↑ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 343–345. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
↑ Jones, Philip D. (1980). "The Bristol Bridge Riot and Its Antecedents: Eighteenth-Century Perception of the Crowd". The Journal of British Studies 19 (2): 74–92. doi:10.1086/385756.
↑ "'Riot!' The Bristol Bridge Massacre of 1793" (audio file). Bristol Radical History Group. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
↑ Manson, Michael (1998). Riot! The Bristol Bridge Massacre of 1793. Past & Present Press.
↑ "British History Timeline". BBC History. Archived from the original on 9 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-04.
↑ "Plymouth Gin". Attractions in Devon. Archived from the original on 7 February 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-22.