What Happened in March 1794

Historical Events

Mar 14 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states

Mar 23 Lt-general Tadeusz Kościuszko 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

Mar 5 Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer
Mar 5 Robert Cooper Grier, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1870)
Mar 16 Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (d. 1881)
Mar 26 Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and designer who figured importantly in the German Nazarene movement, born in Leipzig, Saxony (d. 1872)
Mar 31 Thompson McKennan, American politician who served as the 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1852)

Mar 28 Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, French enlightenment philosopher (Condorcet Method) and mathematician, is murdered or commits suicide in prison at 50