1794
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1794 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
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Events
- February 11 - 1st session of the United States Senate is open to the public.
- March 14 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
- March 27 - The United States Government established a permanent United States Navy and authorized the building of six vessels (in 1797 the first three frigates, USS United States, USS Constellation and USS Constitution went into service).
- April 6 - Execution of Georges Danton
- April 30 - Battle of Boulou between French and Spanish forces.
- May 8 - French chemist Antoine Lavoisier is executed by guillotine.
- May 18 - Battle of Tourcoing between French and British forces.
- May 28-June 1 - The Glorious First of June (Battle of Ushant), naval battle between British and French.
- June 4 - British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
- June 26 - Battle of Fleurus between French forces and those Austria.
- July 13 - Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria
- July 27 - French Revolution: French Convention ousts Maximilien Robespierre - he is arrested when he encourages the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution."
- July 28 - Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution.
- August 7 - Whiskey Rebellion begins: Farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.
- August 20 - Battle of Fallen Timbers - American troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat.
- October - Fort Wayne founded in what is now the U.S. state of Indiana.
- October 2 - Battle of Aldenhoven between French forces and those Austria.
- November 19 - The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to clear up some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
- November 20 - Battle of St-Laurent-de-la-Muga fought between French and Spanish forces.
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Unknown dates
- Horatio Nelson loses a right eye at Calvi in Corsica
- Coffee forbidden by royal decree in Sweden
- France occupies Aachen.
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Ongoing events
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Births
- February 20 - William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869)
- February 21 - Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican general and President of Mexico (d. 1876)
- April 10 - Matthew Calbraith Perry, American commodore (d. 1858)
- May 17 - Anna Brownell Jameson, British writer (d. 1860)
- May 27 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1877)
- July 5 - Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist and inventor (d. 1851)
- November 3 - William Cullen Bryant, American poet (d. 1878)
- Charles Thomas Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1868)
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Deaths
- January 16 - Edward Gibbon, English historian (b. 1737)
- January 31 - Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral (b. 1711)
- March 28 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist (died in prison) (b. 1743)
- April 5 - Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1759)
- April 18 - Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
- April 27 - Sir William Jones, British philologist (b. 1746)
- May 8 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (executed) (b. 1743)
- June 18 - François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French Revolutionary leader (suicide) (b. 1760)
- June 27 - Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
- July 23 - Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais, French politician and general (executed) (b. 1760)
- July 25, André Chénier, French writer (executed) (b. 1762)
- July 28 - Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1758)
- August 6 - Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)
- November 3 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1715)
- November 28 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (b. 1730)af:1794
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