* 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 )

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

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.

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

James Lind FRSE FRCPE ( 4 October 1716 in Edinburgh – 13 July 1794 in Gosport ) was a Scottish physician.

The elder son, John ( 1751 – 1794 ), studied medicine and succeeded James Lind as Chief Physician at Haslar Hospital in 1783.

Joseph Priestley himself was driven from the town, leaving England entirely for the United States in 1794, William Withering's house was invaded by rioters and Matthew Boulton and James Watt had to arm their employees to protect the Soho Manufactory.

** James B. Longacre, fourth Chief Engraver of the U. S. Mint ( b. 1794 )

G. Charles James Fox and the Disintegration of the Whig Party, 1782 – 1794, ( 1971 )

* James Murray ( British Army officer ) ( 1721 / 22 – 1794 ), Scottish military officer and governor of Quebec

* James Murray ( of Strowan ) ( 1734 – 1794 ), Scottish general of the Seven Years ' War and the American Revolution

Their children were born on his family's plantation near Timber Ridge Church, including Sam Houston on March 2, 1793, the fifth of nine children and the fifth son born: Children-Paxton 1783, Robert 1787, James 1788, John Paxton 1790 ( first clerk of Izard County, Arkansas 1819-1838 ), Samuel 1793, William 1794, Isabella 1796, Mary Blair 1797, and Elizabeth Ann 1800.

Miniature of Dolley, painted by James Peale, 1794

* Bolton, Arthur T. ( 1922, reprinted 1984 ) The Architecture of Robert & James Adam, 1785 – 1794, 2 volumes ISBN 0-907462-49-9

It is named after James Geddes, a prominent early settler who settled at the head of Onondaga Lake in 1794 and developed the salt industry.

A tract at the hamlet of Tyre was granted to Revolutionary War Colonel James Livingston The first outside settler, Ezekiel Crane, arrived about 1794.

In 1794, James Madison married " Dolly " Todd at Harewood, the home of George Steptoe Washington, son of Colonel Samuel Washington, just outside of Charles Town.

On August 4, 1794, Justice James Wilson delivered his opinion that western Pennsylvania was in a state of rebellion.

In early August 1794, Washington dispatched three commissioners, all of them Pennsylvanians, to the west: Attorney General William Bradford, Justice Jasper Yeates of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and Senator James Ross.

In Australia the most popular Amber Ale is from Malt Shovel Brewery, branded James Squire in honour of Australia's first brewer, who first brewed beer in Sydney in 1794.

Three sons from Stephen's first marriage ( m. Anna Stent at St Leonard, Shoreditch 1783 ) survived him, and achieved prominence in law, abolition and the civil service: Sir James Stephen ( 1789 – 1859 ), Henry John Stephen ( 1787 – 1864 ), and George Stephen ( 1794 – 1879 ).

Bowdoin College was chartered in 1794 by Governor Samuel Adams of Massachusetts, of which Maine was then a district, and was named for former Massachusetts governor James Bowdoin, whose son James Bowdoin III was an early benefactor.

** James Ross ( P ), from April 24, 1794

James Monroe ( A ), until May 11, 1794

James White, seated September 3, 1794