1794
Events
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January–March
- January 1 – The Stibo Group is founded by Niels Lund as a printing company in Aarhus (Denmark).
- January 13 – The U.S. Congress enacts a law providing for, effective May 1, 1795, a United States flag of 15 stars and 15 stripes, in recognition of the recent admission of Vermont and Kentucky as the 14th and 15th states. A subsequent act restores the number of stripes to 13, but provides for additional stars upon the admission of each additional state.
- January 21 – King George III of Great Britain delivers the speech opening Parliament and recommends a continuation of Britain's war with France.
- February 4 – French Revolution: The National Convention of the French First Republic abolishes slavery.
- February 8 – Wreck of the Ten Sail on Grand Cayman.
- February 11 – The first session of the United States Senate is open to the public.
- March 4 – The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed by Congress for submission to the states for ratification.
- March 11 – Canonsburg Academy (modern-day Washington & Jefferson College) is chartered by the Pennsylvania General Assembly.
- March 12 – General Antoni MadaliÃ
Âski, a commander of the National Cavalry in the PolishâÂÂLithuanian Commonwealth, disobeys an order from the ruling Russian Empire and Kingdom of Prussia imposing demobilization, advancing his troops from OstroÃ
ÂÃÂka to Kraków.
- March 14 – Eli Whitney is granted a United States patent for the cotton gin.
- March 22 – Congress prohibits American ships from supplying slaves to any nation other than the United States, setting a penalty of forfeiture of the ship and a $2,000 fine.
- March 23 – British troops capture Martinique from the French.
- March 24 – Tadeusz KoÃ
Âciuszko makes his proclamation starting the KoÃ
Âciuszko Uprising against the Russian Empire and Kingdom of Prussia in the PolishâÂÂLithuanian Commonwealth and Prussian Partition.
- March 26 – The U.S. lays a 60-day embargo on all shipping to and from Great Britain.
- March 27
- The United States Government authorizes the building of the first six United States Navy vessels; in 1797 the first three frigates, , and will go into service (not to be confused with October 13, 1775, which is observed as the Navy's Birthday).
- The U.S. Senate passes a rule ending its policy of closing all of its sessions to the public.
April–June
July–September
October–December
Date unknown
Births
- January 7 – Eilhard Mitscherlich, German chemist (d. 1863)
- February 8 – Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, German chemist (d. 1867)
- February 11 – Charlotta Eriksson, Swedish actor (d. 1862)
- February 20 – William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869)
- February 21 – Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican general and President of Mexico (d. 1876)
- March 5
- Robert Cooper Grier, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1870)
- Joseph Livesey, English temperance movement campaigner (d. 1884)
- April 10 – Matthew Calbraith Perry, American commodore (d. 1858)
- April 11 – Edward Everett, American politician (d. 1865)
- May 17 – Anna Brownell Jameson, British writer (d. 1860)
- May 24 – William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher and historian of science (d. 1866)
- May 27 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1877)
- June 16 – MarÃÂa Trinidad Sánchez, heroine of the Dominican War of Independence (d. 1846)
- July 5 – Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist, inventor (d. 1851)
- July 7 – Frances Stackhouse Acton, British botanist, archaeologist, writer and artist (d. 1881)
- July 18 – Feargus O'Connor, Irish political radical, Chartist leader (d. 1855)
- July 28 – Charles Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1868)
- August 8 – Francesco Puccinotti, Italian pathologist (d. 1872)
- September 24 – Jeanne Villepreux-Power, French marine biologist (d. 1871)
- November 3 – William Cullen Bryant, American poet (d. 1878)
- November 10 – Robert Towns, merchant, founder of Townsville, Queensland, Australia (d. 1873)
Date unknown
Deaths
- January 4 – Nicolas Luckner, Marshal of France (executed) (b. 1722)
- January 6
- Pierre Bouchet, French physician (b. 1752)
- Maurice d'Elbée, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1752)
- January 8 РJustus M̦ser, German statesman (b. 1720)
- January 11 – Caroline Townshend, 1st Baroness Greenwich, English peeress (b. 1717)
- January 16 – Edward Gibbon, English historian (b. 1737)
- January 17 – Peniston Portlock Powney, English politician (b. 1743)
- January 24 – Marie-Adélaïde de La Touche-Limouzinière, French aristocrat, counter-revolutionary and combatant in the War of the Vendée (b. 1760)
- January 28 – Henri de la Rochejaquelein, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1772)
- January 31 – Mariot Arbuthnot, British admiral (b. 1711)
- February 10 – Jacques Roux, French priest (b. 1752)
- February 12 – Mahadaji Shinde, Maratha emperor of India (1764âÂÂ1794)
- March 24 РJacques H̩bert, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1757)
- March 29 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher and political scientist (died in prison) (b. 1743)
- April 5
- Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1759)
- Camille Desmoulins, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1760)
- Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1759)
- Fabre d'ÃÂglantine, French dramatist, revolutionary (executed) (b. 1750)
- François Joseph Westermann, French Revolutionary leader and general (executed) (b. 1751)
- April 13
- Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1763)
- Lucile Duplessis, wife of Camille Desmoulins (executed) (b. 1770)
- April 18 – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
- April 23 РGuillaume-Chr̩tien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (executed) (b. 1721)
- April 27
- James Bruce, Scottish explorer (b. 1730)
- Sir William Jones, British philologist (b. 1746)
- May 8 – Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (executed) (b. 1743)
- May 10 – ÃÂlisabeth of France, French princess (executed) (b. 1764)
- May 17 – Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 9th Baronet (b. 1752)
- May 27 – Mary Palmer, English writer (b. 1716)
- June 14 – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (b. 1718)
- June 17 – Marguerite-ÃÂlie Guadet, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1753)
- June 18
- François Buzot, French Revolutionary leader (suicide) (b. 1760)
- James Murray, British military officer, administrator (b. 1721)
- June 19 – Richard Henry Lee, 12th President of the Continental Congress (b. 1732)
- June 25 – Jean-Olivier Briand, French-born Catholic bishop of Quebec (b. 1715)
- June 27
- Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
- Philippe de Noailles, French soldier (executed) (b. 1715)
- Victor de Broglie, French soldier (executed) (b. 1756)
- July 13 – James Lind, British pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy (b. 1716)
- July 17 – John Roebuck, English inventor (b. 1718)
- July 23 – Alexandre de Beauharnais, French politician and general (executed) (b. 1760)
- July 25
- André Chénier, French writer (executed) (b. 1762)
- Joseph Frye, American general (b. 1712)
- July 28
- Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1758)
- Augustin Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1763)
- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1767)
- Jean-Baptiste de Lavalette, French general (executed) (b. 1753)
- François Hanriot, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1761)
- August 6 – Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)
- August 14 – Jacoba van den Brande, Dutch cultural personality (b. 1735)
- August 17 – Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach, politically active Electress of Bavaria (b. 1721)
- September 1 РCatherine Th̩ot, French visionary (b. 1716)
- September 4 – John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b. 1724)
- September 15 – Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)
- September 16 – Hester Bateman, English silversmith (bap. 1708)
- September 25 – Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
- October 21
- Francis Light, founder of the British colony of Penang (b. 1740)
- Antoine Petit, French physician (b. 1722)
- November 3 РFran̤ois-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal, statesman (b. 1715)
- November 9 – Thomas Walker, distinguished Virginia physician, explorer (b. 1715)
- November 15
- Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach, German aristocrat (b. 1724)
- John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1723)
- November 22
- John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
- Alison Cockburn, British poet (b. 1712)
- November 28
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (b. 1730)
- Sir James Tylney-Long, 7th Baronet, English politician (b. 1736)
- December 2 – Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, German physician (b. 1715)
- December 12 – Meshullam Feivush Heller, Austrian Hasidic author (b. c. 1742)
- December 16 – Jean-Baptiste Carrier, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1756)
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