1794

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

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Years: 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793 - 1794 - 1795 1796 1797 1798 1799

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Ongoing events 3 Year in topic 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Monarchs/Presidents

Events

• February 11 - 1st session of US Senate 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).
• May 8 - French chemist Antoine Lavoisier is executed by guillotine.
• May 28-June 1 - The Glorious First of June (Battle of Ushant), naval battle between British and French.
• July 27 - French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging 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 Pottawatomie warriors into a disorganized retreat.
• October - Fort Wayne founded in what is now the U.S. state of Indiana.
• 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.

• French Revolution (1789-1799)

• 1794 in literature
  • The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
  • The Old English Baron - Clara Reeve

• April 10 - Matthew Perry, American Commodore.
• May 17 - Anna Brownell Jameson, British writer (+ 1860)
• May 27 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, entrepreneur
• July 5 - Sylvester Graham, inventor of Graham cracker (+ 1851)

• January 16 - Edward Gibbon historian
• March 28 - Marquis de Condorcet, mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist
• April 27 - Sir William Jones, British philologist and discoverer of the Indo-European languages family.
• May 8 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and father of modern chemistry
• July 28 - Maximilian Robespierre (executed)

• China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)