Explore the major historical events, famous births, and notable deaths that occurred in the year 1794. This year saw 51 significant events. 1 notable figure was born. 3 notable figures passed away.
Eli Whitney Jr. (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped...
Naval Act of 1794 is signed by President George Washington, authorizing the building of six frigates and establishing a permanent US Navy
Battle of Fleurus: Major victory by forces of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburgs) with the first use of a reconnaissance balloon
French Revolutionary figure Maximilien Robespierre and 22 other leaders of "the Terror" are guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris
4th US President James Madison (43) weds Dolley Madison (26) in Jefferson County, West Virginia
Physicist Alessandro Volta (49) weds Teresa Peregrini
2nd Earl Grey Charles Grey (30) weds only daughter of 1st Baron Ponsonby Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby
U.S. Marshal Robert Forsyth is killed in Augusta, Georgia, trying to serve court papers, first US marshal to die carrying out his duties
Congress changes US flag to 15 stars and 15 stripes
Dr. Jesse Bennett performs the first successful cesarean section in the United States on his wife, Elizabeth, delivering a baby girl at their home in Edom, Virginia
Franz Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was pivotal in the evolution of chamber music forms like the string quartet and piano trio.
First session of US Senate open to the public
First US textile machinery patent is granted to James Davenport in Philadelphia
Christiansborg Palace is a palace and government building on the islet of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen, Denmark.
US Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin
Theatre Royal in London's Dury Lane opens after being rebuilt
The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 (2 Stat. 426, enacted March 2, 1807) is a United States federal law that prohibits the importation of slaves into the United States.
American inventor Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine
Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact
The Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition, also known as the Flanders campaign, was a series of campaigns in the Low Countries conducted from 20 April 1792 to 7 June 1795 during the...
The War of the Pyrenees, also known as War of Roussillon or War of the Convention, was the Pyrenean front of the First Coalition's war against the First French Republic.
Influential Gothic romance "The Mysteries of Udolpho" is published by Ann Ratcliffe in London
Hard frost in southern New England
Battle of Tourcoing; French Republican army defeats a Habsburg coalition bear Lille, France, during War of the First Coalition
Glorious First of June; first naval battle between Britain (under Admiral Lord Howe) and France (Vice-Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse) during French Revolutionary Wars. Britain gains tactical win.
US Congress passes the Neutrality Act, banning Americans from serving in foreign armed forces
The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the AME Church or AME, is a Methodist denomination based in the United States.
1st stone laid at biggest Dutch grain windmill De Walvisch in Schiedam
Maine ( MAYN) is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the contiguous United States.
French troops occupy Charleroi
Seige of Fort Recovery, Ohio, Anglo American army holds off an attack on the fort by an Indian confederacy
The Battle of Fleurus was fought on 26 June 1794 during the War of the First Coalition between the French Revolutionary Army under Jean-Baptiste Jourdan and an Austro-Dutch army commanded by Prince...
The French Revolutionary Wars (French: Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802.
Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church
The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas (AECST) was founded in 1792 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the first black Episcopal Church in the United States.
All Jacobin clubs gather in Haarlem
The Whiskey Rebels is a 2008 historical novel by American writer David Liss, inspired by events in the early history of the United States.
Joseph Whidbey and George Vancouver lead an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska
Ignác Martinovics (Serbo-Croatian: Ignjat Martinović, Игњат Мартиновић; 20 July 1755 – 20 May 1795) was a Hungarian scholar, chemist, philosopher, writer, secret agent, Freemason and a leader of the...
French troops conquer Dutch fortress Fort Crèvecoeur after a short siege
's-Hertogenboschˈbɔs] ), colloquially known as Den Bosch, is a city and municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 160,783.
The Southern Netherlands, also called the Catholic Netherlands, were the parts of the Low Countries belonging to the Holy Roman Empire which were at first largely controlled by Habsburg Spain...
French troops conquer Maastricht
The siege of Nijmegen occurred from 27 October to 8 November 1794 during the Flanders campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
The Warsaw Uprising of 1794 or Warsaw Insurrection (Polish: insurekcja warszawska) was an armed insurrection by the people of Warsaw early in the Kościuszko Uprising.
Jakobin Club forms in Paris
Honolulu Harbor discovered
Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision and wearing of beards
1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published
The Revolutionary Tribunal (French: Tribunal révolutionnaire; unofficially Popular Tribunal) was a court instituted by the National Convention during the French Revolution for the trial of political...
The Directory (also called Directorate; French: le Directoire [diʁɛktwaʁ] ) was the system of government established by the French Constitution of 1795.
Santa Anna, Mexican 8th president of mexico, known for 8th president of mexico, was born on 1794-02-21.
Edward Gibbon, British essayist, historian and politician, known for british essayist, historian and politician, died on 1794-01-16.
Marquis de Condorcet, French philosopher and mathematician, known for french philosopher and mathematician, died on 1794-03-28.
Georges Danton, French revolutionary, known for french revolutionary, died on 1794-04-05. Georges Jacques Danton was a French politician and leading figure of the French Revolution.
Eli Whitney Jr. (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped...
Naval Act of 1794 is signed by President George Washington, authorizing the building of six frigates and establishing a permanent US Navy
Battle of Fleurus: Major victory by forces of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburgs) with the first use of a reconnaissance balloon
French Revolutionary figure Maximilien Robespierre and 22 other leaders of "the Terror" are guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris
4th US President James Madison (43) weds Dolley Madison (26) in Jefferson County, West Virginia
Physicist Alessandro Volta (49) weds Teresa Peregrini
2nd Earl Grey Charles Grey (30) weds only daughter of 1st Baron Ponsonby Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby
U.S. Marshal Robert Forsyth is killed in Augusta, Georgia, trying to serve court papers, first US marshal to die carrying out his duties
Congress changes US flag to 15 stars and 15 stripes
Dr. Jesse Bennett performs the first successful cesarean section in the United States on his wife, Elizabeth, delivering a baby girl at their home in Edom, Virginia
Franz Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was pivotal in the evolution of chamber music forms like the string quartet and piano trio.
First session of US Senate open to the public
First US textile machinery patent is granted to James Davenport in Philadelphia
Christiansborg Palace is a palace and government building on the islet of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen, Denmark.
US Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin
Theatre Royal in London's Dury Lane opens after being rebuilt
The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 (2 Stat. 426, enacted March 2, 1807) is a United States federal law that prohibits the importation of slaves into the United States.
American inventor Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine
Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact
The Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition, also known as the Flanders campaign, was a series of campaigns in the Low Countries conducted from 20 April 1792 to 7 June 1795 during the...
The War of the Pyrenees, also known as War of Roussillon or War of the Convention, was the Pyrenean front of the First Coalition's war against the First French Republic.
Influential Gothic romance "The Mysteries of Udolpho" is published by Ann Ratcliffe in London
Hard frost in southern New England
Battle of Tourcoing; French Republican army defeats a Habsburg coalition bear Lille, France, during War of the First Coalition
Glorious First of June; first naval battle between Britain (under Admiral Lord Howe) and France (Vice-Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse) during French Revolutionary Wars. Britain gains tactical win.
US Congress passes the Neutrality Act, banning Americans from serving in foreign armed forces
The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the AME Church or AME, is a Methodist denomination based in the United States.
1st stone laid at biggest Dutch grain windmill De Walvisch in Schiedam
Maine ( MAYN) is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the contiguous United States.
French troops occupy Charleroi
Seige of Fort Recovery, Ohio, Anglo American army holds off an attack on the fort by an Indian confederacy
The Battle of Fleurus was fought on 26 June 1794 during the War of the First Coalition between the French Revolutionary Army under Jean-Baptiste Jourdan and an Austro-Dutch army commanded by Prince...
The French Revolutionary Wars (French: Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802.
Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church
The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas (AECST) was founded in 1792 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the first black Episcopal Church in the United States.
All Jacobin clubs gather in Haarlem
The Whiskey Rebels is a 2008 historical novel by American writer David Liss, inspired by events in the early history of the United States.
Joseph Whidbey and George Vancouver lead an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska
Ignác Martinovics (Serbo-Croatian: Ignjat Martinović, Игњат Мартиновић; 20 July 1755 – 20 May 1795) was a Hungarian scholar, chemist, philosopher, writer, secret agent, Freemason and a leader of the...
French troops conquer Dutch fortress Fort Crèvecoeur after a short siege
's-Hertogenboschˈbɔs] ), colloquially known as Den Bosch, is a city and municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 160,783.
The Southern Netherlands, also called the Catholic Netherlands, were the parts of the Low Countries belonging to the Holy Roman Empire which were at first largely controlled by Habsburg Spain...
French troops conquer Maastricht
The siege of Nijmegen occurred from 27 October to 8 November 1794 during the Flanders campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
The Warsaw Uprising of 1794 or Warsaw Insurrection (Polish: insurekcja warszawska) was an armed insurrection by the people of Warsaw early in the Kościuszko Uprising.
Jakobin Club forms in Paris
Honolulu Harbor discovered
Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision and wearing of beards
1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published
The Revolutionary Tribunal (French: Tribunal révolutionnaire; unofficially Popular Tribunal) was a court instituted by the National Convention during the French Revolution for the trial of political...
The Directory (also called Directorate; French: le Directoire [diʁɛktwaʁ] ) was the system of government established by the French Constitution of 1795.
Edward Gibbon, British essayist, historian and politician, known for british essayist, historian and politician, died on 1794-01-16.
Marquis de Condorcet, French philosopher and mathematician, known for french philosopher and mathematician, died on 1794-03-28.
Georges Danton, French revolutionary, known for french revolutionary, died on 1794-04-05. Georges Jacques Danton was a French politician and leading figure of the French Revolution.