"Negro Revolution in Haiti." See xiv, [236].
Flight of the French royal family; they are stopped at Varennes and taken back to Paris. Insurrections in La Vendée and Brittany; massacres at Avignon, Marseilles, and Aix.
A new constitution adopted by the King and Diet of Poland, which gives offence to Catharine of Russia.
Hungary secures constitutional liberties from Leopold II; the rights of Protestants sanctioned.
1792. Washington reëlected President of the United States. The national mint established at Philadelphia. Admission of Kentucky into the Union.
Confiscation of the property of the French Émigrés; a Girondist ministry formed by Louis XVI; he is compelled to declare war against Austria and Prussia. See "Republican France Defies Europe: Battle of Valmy," xiv, [252].
1793. Congress passes the first fugitive-slave law of the United States. Washington begins his second administration.
"Invention of the Cotton-gin." See xiv, [271].
"Execution of Louis XVI: Murder of Marat: Civil War in France." See xiv, 295.
Toulon retaken by the French from the English; Napoleon Bonaparte commands the French artillery.