1794 - What happened in 1794 ?

February 1794

Tuesday 04:

The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic.

Tuesday 11:

First session of United States Senate open to the public.

Wednesday 26:

Christiansborg Castle, Copenhagen burns down.

March 1794

Friday 14:

Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.

Thursday 27:

Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.

Friday 28:

Allies under the prince of Coburg defeated French forces at Le Cateau.

April 1794

Wednesday 30:

The Battle of Boulou is fought, in which French forces defeated the Spanish under General Union.

May 1794

Thursday 08:

Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, was tried, convicted, and guillotined all on one day in Paris.

June 1794

Wednesday 04:

British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.

Monday 23:

Empress Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.

July 1794

Sunday 13:

Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria

Sunday 27:

French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution." (See 9 Thermidor.)

Monday 28:

Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution.

August 1794

Thursday 07:

Whiskey Rebellion begins: Farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.

Wednesday 20:

American troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat.

November 1794

Wednesday 19:

The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to clear up some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.