1794 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1794?
- February 4, 1794 – The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic.
- February 11, 1794 – First session of United States Senate open 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 27, 1794 – Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
- March 28, 1794 – Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau.
- 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 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 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 – Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution’s new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
- June 23, 1794 – Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
- June 30, 1794 – Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery.
- July 13, 1794 – The Battle of the Vosges is fought between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria.
- 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 27, 1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 “enemies of the Revolution”.
- 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.
- 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.
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