Events from the year 1793 in Poland
Incumbents Monarch – Stanisław II August
Events
Poznań witch trial- witch trial in village of Doruchów that was the last of such in the Polish-Lithuanian Commomwealth. It would result in six women executed. Second Partition of Poland- ended existence of Polish-Lithuanian Commonweallh by 1795.
Births
Chaim Halberstam of Sanz- Hasidic Rabbi and spiritual leader who founded Sanzer Hasidic dynasty and also authored Divrei Chaim, a rabbinic text. Antoni Malczewski- Romantic poet best known for writing Gothic work Maria in 1825. He was also the first Pole to climb Mont Blanc. Count Aleksander Fredro- known as creator of Polish national comedy and wrote the comedy Zemsta (The Revenge)
Deaths
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