1794 Calendar
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1794 Historical Event(s)
February 11, 1794
– First session of United States Senate open to the public.
March 4, 1794
– The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
March 27, 1794
– Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
May 1, 1794
– War of the Pyrenees: The Battle of Boulou ends, in which French forces defeat the Spanish and regain nearly all the land they lost to Spain in 1793.
May 8, 1794
– 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 the same day in Paris.
June 23, 1794
– Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
July 17, 1794
– The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.
July 28, 1794
– Maximilien Robespierre is executed by guillotine in Paris during the French Revolution.
August 7, 1794
– U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Law 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.
Who Were Born On 1794?
January 25, 1794
– François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)
February 21, 1794
– Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican president (d. 1876)
March 26, 1794
– Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (d. 1872)
April 15, 1794
– Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867)
April 17, 1794
– Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (d. 1868)
April 23, 1794
– Wei Yuan, Chinese scholar (d. 1856)
May 27, 1794
– Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1877)
May 29, 1794
– Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874)
August 11, 1794
– James Barton Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869)
December 14, 1794
– Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (d. 1872)