CHRONOLOGY.

1793. On the 21st of January, Louis XVI. was beheaded at Paris, in the

thirty-ninth year of his age, and nineteenth of his reign, under

circumstances which are in the recollection of many, and known to most

persons. A similar instrument to the _guillotine_, the machine by which

Louis XVI. was put to death, was formerly used in England. It was first

introduced into France, during the revolution, by Dr. Guillotine, a

physician, and hence its name.