List of 1794 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1794
Date | Event |
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February 4, 1794 | The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French First Republic. |
February 11, 1794 | First session of United States Senate opens to the public. |
February 26, 1794 | The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down. |
March 4, 1794 | The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress. |
March 14, 1794 | Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. |
March 22, 1794 | The Slave Trade Act of 1794 bans the export of slaves from the United States, and prohibits American citizens from outfitting a ship for the purpose of importing slaves. |
March 24, 1794 | In Kraków, Tadeusz Kościuszko announces a general uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia, and assumes the powers of the Commander in Chief of all of the Polish forces.[17][18] |
March 27, 1794 | The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates. |
April 26, 1794 | Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition. |
April 28, 1794 | Sardinians, headed by Giovanni Maria Angioy, start a revolution against the Savoy domination, expelling Viceroy Balbiano and his officials from Cagliari, the capital and largest city of the island. |
May 7, 1794 | French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic. |
May 8, 1794 | Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris. |
May 18, 1794 | Battle of Tourcoing during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition. |
June 1, 1794 | The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars. |
June 8, 1794 | Maximilien Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France. |
June 17, 1794 | Foundation of Anglo-Corsican Kingdom. |
June 23, 1794 | Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kyiv. |
June 26, 1794 | French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marked the first successful military use of aircraft. |
June 30, 1794 | Northwest Indian War: Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery. |
July 13, 1794 | The Battle of Trippstadt between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria begins. |
July 17, 1794 | The 16 Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne are executed ten days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. |
July 27, 1794 | French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution". |
July 28, 1794 | French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris, France. |
August 7, 1794 | U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania. |
August 8, 1794 | Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska. |
August 20, 1794 | Northwest Indian War: United States troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. |
September 15, 1794 | French Revolutionary Wars: Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) sees his first combat at the Battle of Boxtel during the Flanders Campaign. |
September 17, 1794 | Flanders Campaign: France completes its conquest of the Austrian Netherlands at the Battle of Sprimont. |
November 19, 1794 | The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War. |