Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1794
Birthdays
- January 25 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)
- February 12 - Alexander Petrov, Russian chess player (d. 1867)
- February 20 - William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869)
- February 21 - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican president (d. 1876)
- March 5 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist (d. 1872)
- March 5 - Robert Cooper Grier, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1870)
- March 16 - Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (d. 1881)
- March 26 - Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (d. 1872)
- March 31 - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician (d. 1852)
- April 9 - Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (d. 1881)
- April 10 - Matthew C. Perry, American commodore (d. 1858)
- April 11 - Edward Everett, 15th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1865)
- April 12 - Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (d. 1847)
- April 15 - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867)
- April 17 - Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (d. 1868)
- April 23 - Wei Yuan, Chinese scholar (d. 1856)
- May 13 - Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835)
- May 17 - Anna Brownell Jameson, British writer (d. 1860)
- May 24 - William Whewell, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1866)
- May 27 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1877)
- May 29 - Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874)
- July 5 - Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist (d. 1851)
- July 24 - Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (d. 1865)
- August 11 - James Barton Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869)
- August 17 - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest (d. 1849)
- October 10 - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (d. 1871)
- October 26 - Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (d. 1881)
- November 3 - William Cullen Bryant, American poet and journalist (d. 1878)
- December 14 - Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (d. 1872)
Deaths
- January 8 - Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720)
- January 10 - Georg Forster, German scientist and revolutionary (d. 1754)
- January 16 - Edward Gibbon, English historian (b. 1737)
- January 31 - Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral (b. 1711)
- March 28 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1743)
- April 5 - Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1759)
- April 5 - Camille Desmoulins, French journalist and politician (b. 1760)
- April 13 - Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (b. 1741)
- April 18 - Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
- April 23 - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (executed) (b. 1721)
- May 8 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (executed) (b. 1743)
- June 14 - Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford
- June 18 - François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1760)
- June 18 - James Murray, British military officer and administrator (b. 1721)
- June 27 - Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
- June 27 - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy
- June 27 - Anne d'Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles
- July 17 - John Roebuck, British inventor (b. 1718)
- July 25 - Andr¨¦ Ch¨¦nier, French writer (b. 1762)
- July 28 - Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1758)
- July 28 - Louis de Saint-Just, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1767)
- August 6 - Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst
- August 25 - Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-born Austrian diplomat (b. 1727)
- September 4 - John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b. 1724)
- September 15 - Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)
- September 25 - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
- November 3 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1715)
- November 15 - John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1723)
- November 17 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738)
- November 22 - John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
- November 28 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (b. 1730)
Events
- January 11 - Robert Forsythe, a U.S. Marshal is killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US marshal to die while carrying out his duties.
- February 4 - The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic.
- February 11 - First session of United States Senate open to the public.
- February 26 - Christiansborg Castle, Copenhagen burns down.
- March 4 - The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress.
- March 14 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
- March 27 - The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
- March 27 - Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
- March 28 - Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau.
- April 30 - The Battle of Boulou is fought, in which French forces defeated the Spanish under General Union.
- May 8 - Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on one day in Paris.
- June 1 - The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
- June 4 - British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
- June 23 - Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
- June 24 - Bowdoin College is founded.
- July 13 - Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria
- July 17 - The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
- July 27 - French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution." (See 9 Thermidor.)
- July 28 - Maximilien Robespierre is executed by guillotine in Paris during the French Revolution.
- August 7 - The Whiskey Rebellion begins: farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.
- August 8 - Joseph Whidbey and George Vancouver lead an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
- August 20 - Battle of Fallen Timbers
- 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.
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