* 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

The Great Auk had disappeared from Funk Island by 1800, and an account by Aaron Thomas of HMS Boston from 1794 described how the bird had been systematically slaughtered until then:

By 1794 Watt had been chosen by Thomas Beddoes to manufacture apparatus to produce, clean and store gases for use in the new Pneumatic Institution at Hotwells in Bristol.

Thomas Paine wrote the definitive book on the natural religion of Deism, The Age of Reason ( 1794 – 1807 ).

* October 27 – Charles Thomas Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury ( b. 1794 )

Thomas was raised in poverty by his mother Janet Jackson ( d. 1794 ).

No settlement is shown in the Athens area during the time immediately prior to the founding of Athens, according to a 1794 map by Thomas Kitchin.

* The Diary of Thomas Lloyd kept in Newgate Prison, 1794 – 1796

Forquer was born in Pennsylvania in 1794, and came to Illinois with his mother, Mrs. Ford, and his younger half brother, Thomas Ford, ( afterwards Gov.

He was conspicuous in the Whiskey Insurrection and having been prominent in some of the meetings of the insurgents, his arrest was ordered but in the meantime before any action could be taken he appeared November 6, 1794, before Thomas McKean, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and in the presence of William Bradford, Attorney General of the United States, voluntarily entered into recognizance to the United States for his appearance before the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States at the next special session of the Circuit Court held for the district of Pennsylvania " then and there to answer such charges of treasonable and seditious practices and such other matters of misdemeanor as shall be alleged against him in behalf of the United States and that he will not depart that court without license.

In April 1794, a group of travelers was ambushed by a band of Creeks, killing early Cumberland County settler Thomas " Big Foot " Spencer.

Abishai Thomas, a friend of William Blount, visited Knoxville in 1794 and wrote that while he was impressed by the town's modern frame buildings, the town had " seven taverns " and no church.

Spencer is named after Thomas Sharp Spencer ( d. 1794 ), a long hunter who passed through the Van Buren County area in the mid-18th century.

As early as 1794, Greenville was platted and divided into 14 lots of and sold by Thomas and Jane Steele.

They obtained another Act of Parliament in 1794, which aimed to rectify the situation, but it was not until 1801 that Thomas Wright replied to their requests, and some repairs were made.

Sympathetic to the early ideals of the French Revolution, Holcroft assisted in the publication of the first part of Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man in 1791 He joined the Society for Constitutional Information ( SCI ) in 1792 and was appointed a member of a liaison committee to work with the LCS in early 1794.

In early December 1794, Holcroft was discharged without trial after those cases, against London Corresponding Society secretary Thomas Hardy, and SCI figure John Horne Tooke, resulted in acquittals.

for Thomas Anson, the 1st Viscount Anson and his wife Anne Margaret Coke, daughter of Thomas Coke, the 1st Earl of Leicester, whom he married in 1794.

* Aristotle's Poetica, his most important work, published after his death under the superintendence of Thomas Burgess, bishop of Salisbury, in 1794.

* An Enquiry into the Principles and Tendency of Certain Public Measures ( Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1794 ).

* Thomas Hamilton, 7th Earl of Haddington ( 1721 – 1794 )

In 1794 he took Owen Rees as a partner ; in the same year, Thomas Brown ( c. 1777 – 1869 ) entered the house as an apprentice.

Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring originally published a clear, accurate and precise system in German ( 1791 – 1796 ), then in Latin ( 1794 – 1800 ).

He did not, as it turned out, return until the summer of 1794, after an absence of seven years, having in the meantime executed another ideal commission ( a " Cephalus and Aurora ") for Thomas Hope, and having sent home models for several sepulchral monuments, including one in relief for the poet William Collins in Chichester cathedral, and one in the round for Lord Mansfield in Westminster Abbey.