Marie Antoinette died on 16 October 1793 in place de la Concorde, aged 37. The last queen of France before the Revolution, Marie Antoinette was an Austrian archduchess who married the future Louis XVI in 1770 as part of an alliance between the Habsburgs and the Bourbons. Her extravagance, her foreign origin and rumors of intrigue made her unpopular, and she became a target of pamphlets, including the false story that she had said, let them eat cake. After the royal family's failed flight to Varennes in 1791 and the fall of the monarchy, she was imprisoned, tried for treason by the Revolutionary Tribunal and guillotined.
Before and after
- from 29 August 1793 to 19 December 1793Siege of Toulon
- from 2 September 1793 to 28 July 1794Reign of Terror
- 8 September 1793Battle of Hondschoote
- 18 September 1793Construction of United States Capitol
- 16 October 1793Death of Marie Antoinette
- 1794Founding of Musée des Arts et Métiers
- 1794Publication of The Age of Reason
- 20 March 1794Founding of Tehran
- from 24 March 1794 to 16 November 1794Kościuszko Uprising
More in Wars, politics & history
- 4 July 1776United States Declaration of Independence
- 17 September 1787United States Constitution
- from 1803 to 1815Napoleonic Wars
- 1815Congress of Vienna
- from October 1853 to February 1856Crimean War
- from 19 July 1870 to 28 January 1871Franco-Prussian War
The era
This moment belongs to the Industrial era (1760 CE to 1914 CE), steam, factories and revolutions. You can also browse everything in the 18th century.