8 August — Admiral Fyodor Ushakov’s squadron defeated the Turkish fleet off Cape Tendra, securing Russia’s dominance in the Black Sea.
6 September — Catherine II ordered all Russian citizens to return to Russia immediately from revolutionary France.
19 September — writer A. Radishchev was exiled to Siberia for his “Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.”
22 December — Russian troops under the command of Alexander Suvorov stormed and captured the Turkish fortress of Izmail.
2 April — after 13 years of imprisonment and a year spent in a mental asylum, the Marquis de Sade was released. Eleven years later he would be arrested again and placed in the same asylum, which would become his refuge for the rest of his life.