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John Hammond Moore. Theophilus Harris's Thoughts on Emigrating to America in 1793. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 36, No. 4 (October 1979), pp. 602–614. William A. Hunter. John Badollet's "Journal of the Time I Spent in Stony Creeck Glades," 1793–1794.
A. Christianus Carolus Henricus van der Aa; Andrew Adgate; Louis-Auguste-Augustin d'Affry; Francisco Agüero Velasco; William Aiton; Giambattista Almici; Pierre Ignace Liévin van Alstein
During the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, 5,000 or more people were listed in the register of deaths between August 1st and November 9th. The vast majority of them died of yellow fever , making the epidemic in the city of 50,000 people one of the most severe in United States history.
At least 25 major outbreaks followed in North America, such as in 1793 in Philadelphia, where several thousand people died, more than nine percent of the total population. The American government, including President George Washington , had to flee the city, which was the capital of the United States at the time.
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1500 to 1799 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1500 and 1799. Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.
Lemuel Shattuck (1793-1859) of Boston promoted legislation that required a better statewide system for the local registration of vital information on births and deaths. He specified the need for precise details on age, sex, race, and occupation, as well as standard terminology for diseases and cause of death.
For a given epidemic or pandemic, the average of its estimated death toll range is used for ranking. If the death toll averages of two or more epidemics or pandemics are equal, then the smaller the range, the higher the rank. For the historical records of major changes in the world population, see world population. [3]
1793 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1793rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 793rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 93rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1793, the ...