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Year 1794 (MDCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1794

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January - June

• February 4 - The French Republic abolishes slavery.
• February 11 - The first 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 authorizes the building of the first 6 United States Navy vessels (in 1797 the first 3 frigates, USS United States, USS Constellation and USS Constitution go into service), not to be confused with October 13, 1775 which is observed as the Navy's Birthday.
• April 5 - Georges Danton is executed.
• April 30 - Battle of Boulou: The French defeat the Spanish and Portuguese forces.
• May 8 - French chemist Antoine Lavoisier is executed by guillotine.
• May 18 - Battle of Tourcoing: French troops defeat British forces.
• May 28 - June 1 - The Glorious First of June (Battle of Ushant): British and French ships battle to a draw.
• June 4 - British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
• June 26 - Battle of Fleurus: French forces defeat the Austrians.

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July - December

• July 27 - (9 Thermidor) - Maximilien Robespierre is arrested.

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Undated

• Horatio Nelson loses the sight in his right eye at Calvi in Corsica.
• Coffee is forbidden by royal decree in Sweden.
• France occupies Aachen.
• The Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry, a British Yeomanry Cavalry Regiment, is formed by the Earl of Cassillis at Culzean Castle, Ayrshire.
• The Reign of Terror ends.
• Colombian Antonio Nariño translates and publishes the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.

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Ongoing events

• French Revolution (1789-1799)
• French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-First Coalition

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Births

• February 20 - William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869)
• February 21 - [[Antonio López de Santa Anna california

]], 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 24 - William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher, and historian of science (d. 1866)
• 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)
• November 10 - Robert Towns, merchant and founder of Townsville, Queensland, Australia (d. 1873)
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  • Charles Thomas Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1868)
  • Mirza Shafi Vazeh, Azeri poet (d.1852)

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Deaths

• January 4 - Nicolas Luckner, Marshal of France (executed) (b. 1722)
• January 6 - Louis d'Elbée, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1752)
• January 8 - Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720)
• January 16 - Edward Gibbon, English historian (b. 1737)
• January 28 - Henri de la Rochejaquelein, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1772)
• January 31 - Mariot Arbuthnot, British admiral (b. 1711)
• February 12 - Srinath Madhavji Shinde alias Srinath Mahadji Shinde, The Great Maratha Emperor of India (1764-1794)
• March 24 - Jacques Hébert, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1757)
• 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)
  • Camille Desmoulins, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1760)
  • Marie Jean Hérault de Séchelles, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1759)
  • Fabre d'Églantine, French dramatist and revolutionary (executed) (b. 1750)
  • François Joseph Westermann, French Revolutionary leader and general (executed)
• April 13 - Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1763)
• April 13 - 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 - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (executed) (b. 1721)
• April 27 - Sir William Jones, British philologist (b. 1746)
• May 8 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (executed) (b. 1743)
• June 14 - Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (b. 1718)
• June 17 - Marguerite-Élie Guadet, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1753)
• June 18
  • François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French Revolutionary leader (suicide) (b. 1760)
  • James Murray, British military officer and administrator
• June 27
  • Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
  • Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (executed) (b. 1715)
  • Charles-Louis-Victor, prince de Broglie, French soldier (executed) (b. 1756)
• July 13 - James Lind, pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy (b. 1716)
• July 17 - John Roebuck, English inventor (b. 1718)
• 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)
  • Augustin Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1763)
  • Louis de Saint-Just, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1767)
  • François Hanriot, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1761)
• August 6 - Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)
• 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)
• October 21 - Francis Light, founder of the British colony of Penang (b. 1740)
• 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 16 - Jean-Baptiste Carrier, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1756)
• November 22 - John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
• November 28 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (b. 1730)

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