* 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

David later became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien Robespierre ( 1758 – 1794 ), and was effectively a dictator of the arts under the French Republic.

Internally, popular sentiments radicalized the Revolution significantly, culminating in the rise of Maximilien Robespierre and the Jacobins and virtual dictatorship by the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror from 1793 until 1794 during which between 16, 000 and 40, 000 people were killed.

The Committee of Public Safety came under the control of Maximilien Robespierre, a lawyer, and the Jacobins unleashed the Reign of Terror ( 1793 – 1794 ).

The French National Convention, the first elected Assembly of the First Republic ( 1792 – 1804 ), on the 4th of February 1794, under the leadership of Maximilien Robespierre, abolished slavery by law in France and all its colonies.

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

* 1758 – Maximilien Robespierre, French lawyer and politician ( d. 1794 )

Although he has been compared to the Jacobin Maximilien de Robespierre ( 1758 – 1794 ), Francia's policies and ideals perhaps most closely resembled those of François-Noël Babeuf ( 1760 – 1797 ), the French utopian who wanted to abolish private property and communalize land as a prelude to founding a " republic of equals ".

** Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary ( d. 1794 )

* Maximilien Robespierre ( 1758 – 1794 ), French revolutionary leader, born in Arras

The execution of Maximilien Robespierre on 28 July 1794 had ended the Reign of Terror and begun the White Terror, and Babeuf-now self-styled Gracchus Babeuf-defended the fallen Terror politicians with the stated goal of achieving equality " in fact " and not only " by proclamation ," though of the Terror he declared, " I object to this particular aspect of their system.

* Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore de Robespierre ( 1758 – 1794 ), French revolutionary leader

On July 27, 1794 ( 9 Thermidor year II in the French Republican Calendar ), Maximilien Robespierre's Reign of Terror was brought to an end.

Its power peaked under the leadership of Maximilien Robespierre, between August 1793 and July 1794 ; following the downfall of Robespierre, the Committee's influence diminished, and it was disestablished in 1795.

In 1794, Barras sided with the men who sought to overthrow Maximilien Robespierre's faction.

The Thermidorian Reaction, Revolution of Thermidor, or simply Thermidor refers to the coup of 9 Thermidor ( 27 July 1794 ) in which the Committee of Public Safety led by Maximilien Robespierre was sidelined and its leaders arrested and guillotined, resulting in the end of the Reign of Terror.

She was released on 28 September 1794 ( after the fall of Maximilien Robespierre, befriended Joséphine de Beauharnais, and was a prominent figure at the beginning of the empire.

After Maximilien Robespierre's fall ( the Thermidor ), he was the first to advocate the reopening of the churches ( speech of 21 December 1794 ).

* Maximilien Robespierre, Festival of the Supreme Being ( 1794 )

The Rue Robespierre is named after Maximilien Robespierre ( 1758 – 1794 ), who was one of the best-known leaders of the French Revolution.

Couthon was elected to the Committee of Public Safety on 30 May 1793, serving with his friends and close associates Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just during the Reign of Terror until his death in 1794.

Maximilien Robespierre, a leader in the French revolution proclaimed in 1794 that " Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.

He was incarcerated for two months in the Saint-Lazare Prison shortly before the start of Thermidorian Reaction, and released after the fall and execution of Maximilien Robespierre at the end of July 1794.

The term " Red Terror " was originally used to describe the last six weeks of the " Reign of Terror " of the French Revolution, ending on July 28, 1794 with the execution of Maximilien Robespierre, to distinguish it from the subsequent First White Terror.

Thrown into prison during the Reign of Terror, on an unsubstantiated charge of friendliness to the Royalists and the British, he was released after the fall of Maximilien Robespierre in the summer of 1794 ( during the Thermidorian Reaction ), and rose through the ranks until, in 1799, he became chief commissary to the French Revolutionary Army serving under André Masséna in the north of Switzerland.