Execution of Marie Antoinette
October 16, 1793
The widowed queen, hair gone white, was tried on charges including incest with her son and taken to the scaffold in a tumbrel - dressed in plain white, hands bound. She stepped on the executioner's foot on the platform and apologized. The blade fell at quarter past noon. She was thirty-seven.
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Also in 1793 (9 other events on record)
- Execution of Louis XVI · Europe · Politics
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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