Notable Historical Events - 1794
1794 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 11 |
Robert Forsythe, a U.S. Marshal is killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US marshal to die while carrying out his duties. |
Jan 13 |
Congress changes US flag to 15 stars & 15 stripes |
Jan 14 |
Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom, Va, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation in the US on his wife |
Feb 4 |
French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery |
Feb 10 |
Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres |
Feb 11 |
1st session of US Senate open to the public |
Feb 14 |
1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Phila |
Feb 26 |
Christiansborg Castle, Copenhagen burns down. |
Feb 28 |
US Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin |
Mar 3 |
1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D |
Mar 3 |
Richard Allen founded AME Church |
Mar 12 |
Theatre Royal in London's Dury Lane opens after being rebuilt |
Mar 14 |
Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing cotton industry in the southern US states |
Mar 22 |
Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries |
Mar 23 |
Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine |
Mar 23 |
Lt-general Tadeusz Kosciuszko returns to Poland |
Mar 27 |
The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates. |
Mar 27 |
Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact. |
Mar 28 |
Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August) |
Mar 28 |
Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau. |
Apr 21 |
NYC formally declares coast of Ellis Island publically owned, so they can build forts to protect NYC from British |
Apr 30 |
The Battle of Boulou is fought, in which French forces defeated the Spanish under General Union. |
May 6 |
Haiti, under Toussaint L'Ouverture, revolts against France |
May 17 |
Hard frost in southern New England |
May 18 |
2nd battle of Bouvines (France-Austria) |
Jun 1 |
Glorious First of June; first naval battle between Britain (under Admiral Lord Howe) and France (Vice-Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse) during French Revolutionary Wars. Britain gains tactical win. |
Jun 4 |
Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers |
Jun 5 |
US Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces |
Jun 10 |
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia forms |
Jun 10 |
France revolutionary regime begins trials |
Jun 16 |
1st stone layed at Dutch biggest grain windmill (De Walvisch) |
Jun 23 |
Russian Empress Catherine II (Catherine the Great) grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev |
Jun 24 |
Bowdoin College is founded in Maine, USA |
Jun 25 |
French troops occupy Charleroi |
Jun 26 |
Battle of Fleurus; major victory by forces of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburgs) first use of reconnaissance balloon |
Jun 30 |
Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio |
Jul 2 |
2nd Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria |
Jul 13 |
Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria |
Jul 17 |
Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church |
Jul 27 |
Coup of thermidor/fall of Robespierre in Paris |
Jul 28 |
French Revolution figure Robespierre & 22 other leaders of "the Terror" guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris |
Jul 29 |
African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated |
Jul 31 |
All Jacobijnse clubs together in Haarlem |
Aug 1 |
Whiskey Rebellion begins in western Pennsylvania |
Aug 8 |
Joseph Whidbey and George Vancouver lead an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska. |
Aug 16 |
Hungarian revolutionary Ignác Martinovics arrested in Vienna |
Aug 20 |
Gen Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at Fallen Timbers Ohio |
Aug 26 |
French troops occupy Lock |
Sep 27 |
French troops conquer Crèvecoeur |
Oct 9 |
French troops occupy Hertogenbosch |
Oct 29 |
French troops occupies Venlo |
Oct 31 |
John Dalton's first lecture to Manchester Literary/Philosophical Society |
Nov 3 |
French troops conquer Maastricht |
Nov 7 |
French troops conquer Nijmegen |
Nov 9 |
Russian troops occupy Warsaw |
Nov 19 |
Jakobin Club forms in Paris |
Nov 19 |
Jay Treaty, first US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain |
Nov 21 |
Honolulu Harbor discovered |
Nov 22 |
Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision & wearing of beards |
Dec 8 |
1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published |
Dec 15 |
Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France |
Dec 30 |
French troops conquer Grave Neth |
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