360What happened in 1793?
2 moments from 1793 on 360n60, each told in 60 words or fewer.
- On this day · 10 August 1793
The Louvre opens as a public museum
On 10 August 1793, the Louvre, a former royal palace in Paris, opened to the public as a museum, displaying hundreds of paintings. It is now the world's most visited museum, home to the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo, with almost 10 million visitors in some years.
- 1793 · from The 1790s: the first vaccine and the metric system
Whitney's cotton gin