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The Terror begins in republican France, with executions rising to more than 3000 in December
English revolutionary Thomas Paine spends nearly a year in a French prison after opposing the execution of Louis XVI
Robespierre and St Just succeed in sending Danton and his faction to the guillotine in April
French chemist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier is guillotined for having been involved with tax collection in the ancien régime
The treaty agreed by US envoy John Jay restores some degree of friendship between the USA and Britain
Goethe and Schiller become friends, and together create the movement known as Weimar classicism
In his Science of Knowledge Johann Gottlieb Fichte contrasts the I, or Ego, and its opposing non-I, or non-Ego
Robespierre and his faction go to the guillotine in July, in the final bloodletting of the Terror
George Washington uses military force to assert government authority on rebels in Pennsylvania refusing to pay a federal tax on whisky
Virtuoso violinist Nicolo Paganini gives his first public performances, in churches in his native Genoa
Charles Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, publishes Zoonomia, in which he speculates that all living organisms have developed over time 'from one living filament'
William Blake's volume Songs of Innocence and Experience includes his poem 'Tyger! Tyger! burning bright'
Dutch Boers begin calling themselves Afrikaners, to emphasize that Africa is their native land
Beethoven makes his first public appearance in Vienna as a pianist, playing either his first or second piano concerto
Mungo Park sets off on his first expedition to explore the Niger on behalf of the African Association
Two extra stars are added to the American flag for Vermont and Kentucky, two new states that have joined since the original union of thirteen
The Netherlands, forced by invasion into the French camp, is transformed into the Batavian republic
Indian tribes, at peace talks in Fort Greenville, cede much of Ohio to the USA
Thomas Paine publishes his completed Age of Reason, an attack on conventional Christianity
After the Fort Greenville concessions, the Shawnee leader Tecumseh emerges as a champion of Indian territorial rights
A secret Protestant group, the Orange Society, is formed in Co. Armagh to resist Irish nationalism
The 26-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte comes to public attention for his part in saving the Convention in Paris from an assault by rebels
With the Dutch entering the war on the side of the French, Britain seizes their valuable Cape colony in South Africa
Poland's neighbours – Russia, Prussia and Austria – are all on hand for the final partition of the kingdom
A treaty negotiated by US minister Thomas Pinckney provides a temporary resolution of disputes between Spain and the USA
