Important Events in 1794
- Mar 14 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states
- 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
- Jul 28 French Revolutionary figure Maximilien Robespierre and 22 other leaders of "the Terror" guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris
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Did You Know?Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom, Virginia, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation in the US on his wife
On January 14, 1794
Matthew C. Perry
Santa AnnaFamous People in 1794
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer
Ludwig van BeethovenWorld Leaders in 1794
- George Washington
First US President - William Pitt the Younger
British Prime Minister
George Washington
William Pitt the YoungerFamous Weddings in 1794
- Sep 15 4th US President James Madison (43) weds Dolley Madison (26) in Jefferson County, West Virginia
- Sep 22 Physicist Alessandro Volta (49) weds Teresa Peregrini
- Nov 18 2nd Earl Grey Charles Grey (30) weds only daughter of 1st Baron Ponsonby Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby
Edward Gibbon
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Georges Danton
John Witherspoon
Marquis de Condorcet
Maximilien Robespierre