Major Events
- Mar 14 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states [1]
- Jun 26 Battle of Fleurus: major victory by forces of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburgs) first use of reconnaissance balloon
- Jul 28 French Revolutionary figure Maximilien Robespierre and 22 other leaders of "the Terror" guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris
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Did You Know?
Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom, Virginia, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation in the US on his wife
Santa Anna
Matthew C. Perry
Cornelius VanderbiltMore People Born in 1794
Edward Gibbon
Marquis de Condorcet
Georges Danton
Maximilien Robespierre
John Witherspoon
Friedrich Wilhelm von SteubenMore 1794 Deaths
Famous Weddings in 1794
- Sep 15 4th US President James Madison (43) weds Dolley Madison (26) in Jefferson County, West Virginia
- Sep 22 Physicist Alessandro Volta (49) weds Teresa Peregrini
- Nov 18 2nd Earl Grey Charles Grey (30) weds only daughter of 1st Baron Ponsonby Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby
Ludwig van Beethoven
George Washington
William Pitt the Younger