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Everything about 1794 totally explainedYear 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).
Events of 1794
January - June
July - December
July 27 - 9 Thermidor - Maximilien Robespierre is arrested.
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, was formed by The Earl of Cassillis at Culzean Castle, Ayrshire.
Reign of Terror ends.
Ongoing events
French Revolution (1789-1799).
French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-First Coalition.
Births
February 20 - William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869)
February 21 - Antonio López de Santa Anna, 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)
date unknown
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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)
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
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
June 27
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
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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