In 1794, the town was seized by French troops, becoming a part of the First French Empire.

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.

During the Kościuszko Uprising Polish army under general Jan Henryk Dąbrowski liberated the town in September 1794 and defeated a Prussian Army north of Gniezno near Łabiszyn.

From 1794 beers, wines and spirits were distributed from Lewes under the Harveys name, and the town is today the site of Harvey & Son's brewery celebrated as one the finest ale producers in England.

Hampden County was split from Hampshire County in 1812, because Northampton, Massachusetts was made Hampshire County's " shire town " in 1794 ; however, Springfield-theretofore Hampshire County's traditional shire town, dating back to its founding in 1636-grew at a pace far quicker than Northampton and was granted shire town-status over its own, southerly jurisdiction.

In 1794, this town was attacked and burned.

On August 20, 1794, near the present-day town of Maumee, American forces led by General Anthony Wayne won a decisive victory over Indian forces at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.

There are also several private and alternative schools in the town, including Cheshire Academy ( originally the Episcopal Academy of Connecticut ), which was founded in Cheshire in 1794 and currently educates students in the Middle School ( grades 7 – 8 ) and the Upper School ( grades 9-12 / Post-Graduate Year ).

The town was incorporated in 1794 following approval of the CT Assembly, and was carved from northern part of the Town of Voluntown.

Settled in 1794, Cornville was incorporated on 24 February 1798 as the 116th town in Maine.

On February 29, 1794, the area was incorporated as part of Prospect, but then set off and incorporated as a town on March 13, 1857, named Stockton after a port in England.

Centreville became an incorporated town in 1794, two years after the courthouse was completed.

The town is named in honor of Moses Gill, a member of Massachusetts ' Executive Council who became lieutenant governor in 1794 and acting governor in 1799 when Governor Increase Sumner died.

The town was the site of the Battle of Boxtel fought in September 1794 during the Flanders campaign.

First settled in 1769 as Protectworth, the town adopted the name Springfield when it was incorporated in 1794.

The town was first settled in 1794.

The town was first settled around 1794.

The town was first settled around 1794.

William Floyd, for whom the town is named, became a resident of Oneida County in 1794.

When Onondaga County was formed in 1794, the town was established originally from parts of the Towns of Marcellus, Pompey, and Manlius.

The town of Pompey was formed in 1789, but not completely organized until 1794, when Onondaga County was established.

The original town was divided and sub-divided into many other towns in the region, including all of the towns of Fabius ( 1798 ), Tully, Preble, and Scott ( the latter two now in Cortland County ), along with parts of the towns of Spafford, Otisco ( 1806 ), LaFayette ( 1825 ), Onondaga ( 1794 ), Truxton and Cuyler ( the latter two now in Cortland County ).

Wynantskill, in the northeastern corner of the town was first settled around the end of the 18th century with a Dutch Reformed Church established around 1794, and a post office was established in 1820.

Milford separated from neighboring Amherst in 1794.

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier ( also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution ; 26 August 17438 May 1794 ; ), the " father of modern chemistry ," was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology.

He was branded a traitor by the Assembly under Robespierre, during the Reign of Terror, in 1794.

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 1794, this fortress was used by the French astronomer Pierre François André Méchain for observations relating to a survey stretching to Dunkirk that provided the official basis of the measurement of a metre.

Nelson was a highly experienced officer who had been blinded in one eye during fighting in Corsica in 1794 and subsequently commended for his capture of two Spanish ships of the line at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in February 1797.

The most fateful of the new generation was Ludwig van Beethoven, who launched his numbered works in 1794 with a set of three piano trios, which remain in the repertoire.

In November 1794, ten vessels, which were part of a convoy escorted by HMS Convert, were wrecked on the reef in Gun Bay, on the East end of Grand Cayman, but with the help of local settlers, there was no loss of life.

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.

Edward Gibbon ( 27 April 173716 January 1794 ) was an English historian and Member of Parliament.

The stalemate was broken in the summer of 1794 with dramatic French victories.

By the spring of 1794, forced collection of food was not sufficient to feed even Paris and the days of the Committee were numbered.

* The national flag of France was designed in 1794.

In 1794, a " Jacobin " conspiracy was discovered in the Austrian and Hungarian armies.

The regime was overthrown in the coup of 9 Thermidor ( 27 July 1794 ) and Robespierre was executed.

It was not until word of France's ratification of emancipation arrived back in the colony that Toussaint Louverture and his corps of well-disciplined, battle-hardened former slaves came over to the French Republican side in early May 1794.

Tadeusz Kościuszko was chosen as its leader ; the popular general came from abroad and on March 24, 1794 in Cracow ( Kraków ) declared a national uprising under his supreme command.

The time between 1792 and 1794 was dominated by the ideology of the Mountain until the execution of Robespierre on 28 July 1794.

John Taylor Gilman was the last governor to serve longer than six years, serving 14 one-year terms as governor between 1794 and 1816.

In February 1794, the Governor-in-Chief Lord Dorchester, anticipating that the Americans would honour their treaty with France, said that war was likely to break out between the United States and Great Britain before the year was out.

" Lord Dorchester was given an official reprimand for his strong speech against the Americans in 1794.

Rousseau, a Freemason, was interred as a national hero in the Panthéon in Paris, in 1794, 16 years after his death.