* 1741 – Nicolas Chamfort, French writer ( d. 1794 )

* 1794 – Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician ( d. 1847 )

* 1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general ( d. 1794 )

* 1794 – U. S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.

* 1794 – Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.

* 1767 – Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French military leader and politician ( d. 1794 )

* 1794 – Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist ( d. 1868 )

* 1794 – James Barton Longacre, American engraver ( d. 1869 )

In the late eighteenth and during the nineteenth century, Lithuanian participants in the 1794, 1830 – 1831, and 1863 rebellions against the Russian czarist rule were exiled to Abakan.

* 1794 – Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish statesman and soldier, father of Axel von Fersen the Younger ( b. 1719 )

" Migration, Radicalism, and State Security: Legislative Initiatives in the Canada and the United States c. 1794 – 1804 " in Studies in American Political Development, Volume 16, Issue 1, April 2002, 48 – 60

* William Placid Morris ( 1794 – 1872 )

* John Polding ( 1794 – 1877 )

Chemistry came of age when Antoine Lavoisier ( 1743 – 1794 ) developed the theory of Conservation of mass in 1783 ; and the development of the Atomic Theory by John Dalton around 1800.

Clausewitz served in the Rhine Campaigns ( 1793 – 1794 ) including the Siege of Mainz, when the Prussian army invaded France during the French Revolution, and served in the Napoleonic Wars from 1806 to 1815.

* Cyril VII Siaj, Melkite patriarch of Antioch 1794 – 1796

*" The Commodore ", the nickname of American entrepreneur Cornelius Vanderbilt ( 1794 – 1877 )

* 1721 – Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman ( d. 1794 )

* 1715 – Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier ( d. 1794 )

* 1850 – Józef Bem, Polish general ( b. 1794 )

* 1720 – Justus Möser, German statesman ( d. 1794 )

* 1794 – Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician ( d. 1872 )

* 1868 – Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist ( b. 1794 )

* Limburg of the States ( 1648 – 1794 ), territories controlled by the Dutch States-General, see Generality Lands

Eli Whitney's original cotton gin patent, dated March 14, 1794.

Although simple handheld roller gins have been used since at least 500 AD, the first modern mechanical cotton gin was created by American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793, and patented in 1794.

* 1794 – Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.

* March 14, 1794: Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gin

In 1794, Eli Whitney, a Massachusetts-born artisan residing in Savannah, patented a cotton gin, mechanizing the separation of cotton fibres from their seeds.

After 1794, Eli Whitney's cotton gin allowed cotton plantations for short-staple cotton to be widely developed.

Whitney applied for a patent on October 28, 1793 ; the patent was granted on March 14, 1794, but was not validated until 1807.

Cotton did not become a mainstay until much later, after technological developments, especially the Whitney Cotton gin of 1794, greatly increased the profitability of cotton cultivation.

From 1597 to 1794, Bonn was the residence of the Archbishops and Prince-electors of Cologne, and is the birthplace of Ludwig van Beethoven ( born 1770 ).

In Following the Fashion ( 1794 ), James Gillray caricatured a figure flattered by the short-bodice d gowns then in fashion, contrasting it with an imitator whose figure is not flattered.

* 1794 – Robert Forsythe, a U. S. Marshal is killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US marshal to die while carrying out his duties.

* 1794 – The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.

* 1794 – The Battle of the Vosges is fought between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria.

* 1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17, 000 " enemies of the Revolution ".

On September 15, 1794, James Madison married Dolley Payne Todd, a young widow, at Harewood, in what is now Jefferson County, West Virginia.

* 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.

Dąbrowski, for whom the anthem is named, was a commander in the failed 1794 Kościuszko Uprising against Russia.

* 1794 – The 11th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution is passed by the U. S. Congress.

The Reign of Terror ( 5 September 1793 – 28 July 1794: the latter is date 10 Thermidor, year II of the French Revolutionary Calendar ), also known simply as The Terror (), was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of " enemies of the revolution.

On 5 February 1794 Robespierre stated, more succinctly that, " Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.

With the boiling point of 1794 ° C, samarium is the third most volatile lanthanide after ytterbium and europium ; this property facilitates separation of samarium from the mineral ore. At ambient conditions, samarium normally assumes a trigonal structure ( α form ).

He died in Calcutta on 27 April 1794 at the age of 47 and is buried in South Park Street Cemetery.

The person celebrated as the " father of modern chemistry " is Antoine Lavoisier ( 1743 – 1794 ) who developed his law of Conservation of mass in 1789, also called Lavoisier's Law.

* 1794: Jay's Treaty concluded between Great Britain and the United States, by which the Western outposts in the Great Lakes are returned to the U. S., and commerce between the two countries is regulated.

* February 17 – Miami University ( Ohio ) is established on the township of land required to be set aside for it under the conditions of the Miami Purchase in 1794.

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* The Ayrshire ( Earl of Carrick's Own ) Yeomanry, a British Yeomanry Cavalry Regiment, formed by The Earl of Cassillis at Culzean Castle, Ayrshire in 1794, is adopted onto the British Army List.

Perrish Grignon, who visited Chicago in about 1794, is said to have described Point du Sable as a large man who was a wealthy trader.

The period from June 1793 to July 1794 in France is known as the Reign of Terror or simply " the Terror ".

It is one of several North American locations named after George Vancouver, the British Royal Navy officer who explored the Pacific Northwest coast of North America between 1791 and 1794.

* Neutrality Act of 1794, outlaws military operations against nations with which the U. S. is at peace ; still in force in amended form

They finally defeated an Indian confederacy at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794, imposing the Treaty of Greenville, which ceded most of what is now Ohio, part of present-day Indiana, and the lands that include present-day Chicago and Detroit, to the United States federal government.