* 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

Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot ( 1711 – 31 January 1794 ) was a British admiral, who commanded the Royal Navy's North American station during the American War for Independence.

War with Britain seemed imminent in 1794, as the British seized hundreds of American ships that were trading with French colonies.

It would extend the Jay Treaty of 1794 which had expired after ten years ; Jefferson had fought the Jay Treaty intensely in 1794 – 95 because he felt it would allow the British to subvert American republicanism.

An idealised vision of the new British settlement was given in the novel by Therese Forster, Abentheuer auf einer Reise nach Neu-Holland on a Voyage to New Holland, published in the German women ’ s magazine, Flora for 1793 and 1794:

The duty fell to him of protecting the British army in its disastrous retreat out of Holland, in the winter of 1794 – 1795.

* 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.

* November 17 – Caroline Townshend, 1st Baroness Greenwich, British peeress ( d. 1794 )

* John Farr Abbott ( 1756 – 1794 ), British barrister

In 1794, during a war with Revolutionary France, British troops under Admiral Nelson and Lieutenant-General David Dundas briefly captured Bastia.

It was discovered even earlier by Louis Deschamps in Java between 1791 and 1794, but his notes and illustrations, seized by the British in 1803, were not available to western science until 1861.

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.

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

From 1792 to 1794, George Vancouver charted the Pacific Northwest on behalf of Great Britain, including the Strait of Georgia, the bays and inlets of Puget Sound, and the Johnstone Strait – Queen Charlotte Strait and much of the rest of the British Columbia Coast and southeast Alaska shorelines.

France invaded the Republic of the United Provinces in January 1794, the Stadtholder fled to England and asked the British Government to send the Navy to take care of the possessions of the United East Indies Company that was in dire financial straits and in which he had a huge stake.

Englishmen brought with them British machinery from Birmingham in 1794 and designed American improvements in button making which they patented.

A decisive American victory over the British and their Native American allies at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794 and the conclusion of the War of 1812 opened the way for American expansion and attracted promoters eager to make a fortune in western lands.

He argued against war measures like the stationing of Hessian troops in Britain, the employment of royalist French émigrés in the British army and, most of all, Pitt's suspension of habeas corpus in 1794.

In 1794, Saint-Domingue was invaded by British forces trying to capitalize on the unrest in the formerly wealthy colony.

The Battle of Tourcoing was fought near the town of Tourcoing, just north of Lille in northeastern France on 18 May 1794 and resulted in the victory of the French under Major-Generals Joseph Souham and Jean Moreau over the British under the Duke of York and the Austrians under General the Prince of Saxe-Coburg.

Although Barrow ceased to be officially connected with Chinese affairs after the return of the embassy in 1794, he always took much interest in them, and on critical occasions was frequently consulted by the British government.

Amherstburg and Sandwich were the first towns established in Essex County, both in 1796 after the British ceded Fort Detroit by the terms of the Jay Treaty signed in 1794.

August 2, 1766 saw the birth of Saint-Pierre de Louis Delgrès, a mixed-race free black who would serve in the French army and fight the British in 1794, before becoming the leader of the unsuccessful resistance in Guadeloupe against General Richepance, whom Napoleon had sent to restore slavery to that colony.

On March 30, 1794, the British occupation reinstated the Old Regime, including the Monarchy's Supreme Council and the seneschal's courts of Trinité, Le Marin, and St Pierre.