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

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.

* 1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.

Whitney applied for a patent on October 28, 1793 ; the patent was granted on March 14, 1794, but was not validated until 1807.

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, however, permission was granted, and Brookfield incorporated.

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

A second charter, which allowed for self-government, was granted by the Commonwealth of Virginina in 1794.

Nathaniel Gordon purchased in 1787 and in 1794, or possibly earlier, applied for and was granted a license to operate a tavern.

* March 14, 1794: Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gin

The part of Newtown lying south of King Street was a portion of the two estates granted by Governor Arthur Phillip to the Superintendent of Convicts, Nicholas Devine, in 1794 and 1799.

With the Jay Treaty in 1794, the U. S. granted " most favoured nation " trading status to Britain.

On 7 May 1794, Kościuszko issued an act that became known as the " Proclamation of Połaniec ", in which he partially abolished the serfdom in Poland, granted civil liberty to all peasants and provided them with state help against the abuses by the nobility.

One of the first records of land being granted on the North Shore was of on the North side of the Harbour of Port Jackson opposite Sydney Cove on 20 February 1794 to an expired convict, Samuel Lightfoot.

In the Jay Treaty of 1794, the Maliseet were granted free travel between the United States and Canada because their territory spanned both sides of the border.

In 1794, 22 families were granted land at Bardenarang, now known as Pitt Town Bottoms, near Windsor.

In 1794, Lieutenant-Colonel William Paterson granted more land and convict servants to the military, giving them great powers and undermining Governor Arthur Phillip's good naval government.

John Love, a private was granted here in 1794, described as North Brush, in the Field of Mars Common.

The earliest of these depots was the Receiving House in Hyde Park, on the north bank of the Serpentine, which was built in 1794 on a site granted by George III.

He was granted a further in April 1794 for being the first man to clear and cultivate of land.

It was here, in 1794, that Lieutenant-Governor Francis Grose granted fifteen 30-acre ( 12 hectare ) farms to free settlers.

The earliest land grants in the area were granted to Humphrey Evans and Peter Dargan in 1794.

Land originally granted to Surgeon William Balmain in 1794, in the district of the Field of Mars, was bestowed the name ' Meadow Bank '.

Leases for the eastern and southern sides, designed by Robert Adam, were granted in 1792, building began in 1794

The Dakeyne brothers had previously invented " The Equalinium ", a machine for the preparation of flax for spinning, and their father Daniel Dakeyne ( 1733-1819 ) was granted a patent for this device in 1794.