1794

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s

Years: 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793 - 1794 - 1795 1796 1797 1798 1799

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Events

• February 11 - 1st session of US Senate open to the public.
• March 14 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
• March 27 - The United States Government established a permanent United States Navy and authorized the building of six vessels (in 1797 the first three frigates, USS United States, USS Constellation and USS Constitution went into service).
• May 8 - French chemist Antoine Lavoisier is executed by guillotine.
• May 28-June 1 - The Glorious First of June (Battle of Ushant), naval battle between British and French.
• November 19 - United States and Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty.

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1794 in literature:
  • The Mysteries of Udolpho[?] - Ann Radcliffe
  • The Old English Baron[?] - Clara Reeve[?]

Births

• April 10 - Matthew Perry, American Commodore.
• May 17 - Anna Brownell Jameson, British writer (+ 1860)
• May 27 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, entrepreneur
• July 5 - Sylvester Graham, inventor of Graham cracker (+ 1851)

Deaths

• January 16 - Edward Gibbon historian
• March 28 - Marquis de Condorcet, mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist
• April 27 - Sir William Jones, British philologist and discoverer of the Indo-European languages family.
• May 8 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and father of modern chemistry
• July 28 - Maximilian Robespierre (executed)