Editing 1794 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; The [[Stibo]] Group is founded by Niels Lund as a printing company in [[Aarhus]] (Denmark).
* [[January 13]] &ndash; The [[U.S. Congress]] enacts a law providing for, effective May 1, 1795, a [[Flag of the United States#Later flag acts|United States flag of 15 stars and 15 stripes]], in recognition of the recent admission of [[Vermont]] and [[Kentucky]] as the 14th and 15th states.<ref>"Flag of the United States". ''The Port Folio'' (July, 1818) p. 18.</ref> A subsequent act restores the number of stripes to 13, but provides for additional stars upon the admission of each additional state.
* [[January 21]] &ndash; King [[George III of Great Britain]] delivers the speech opening Parliament and recommends a continuation of Britain's war with France.
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[French Revolution]]: The [[National Convention]] of the [[French First Republic]] abolishes slavery.
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Wreck of the Ten Sail]] on [[Grand Cayman]].
* [[February 11]] &ndash; The first session of the [[United States Senate]] is open to the public.
* [[March 4]] &ndash; The [[Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution]] is passed by Congress for submission to the states for ratification.<ref name=Harper>{{cite book|title=Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1909|editor1-first=Benson John|editor1-last=Lossing|editor2-first=Woodrow|editor2-last=Wilson|publisher=Harper & Brothers|year=1910|page=170}}</ref>
* [[March 11]] &ndash; Canonsburg Academy (modern-day [[Washington & Jefferson College]]) is chartered by the Pennsylvania General Assembly.<ref>{{cite book|last=Coleman|first=Helen Turnbull Waite|title=Banners in the Wilderness: The Early Years of Washington and Jefferson College|publisher=[[University of Pittsburgh Press]]|year=1956|url=https://archive.org/details/bannersinthewild012852mbp|oclc=2191890|page=[https://archive.org/details/bannersinthewild012852mbp/page/n257 204]}}</ref>
* [[March 12]] &ndash; General [[Antoni Madaliński]], a commander of the [[National Cavalry]] in the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], disobeys an order from the ruling [[Russian Empire]] and [[Kingdom of Prussia]] imposing [[demobilization]], advancing his troops from [[Ostrołęka]] to [[Kraków]].
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Eli Whitney]] is granted a United States [[patent]] for the [[cotton gin]].
* [[March 22]] &ndash; Congress prohibits American ships from supplying slaves to any nation other than the United States, setting a penalty of forfeiture of the ship and a $2,000 fine.<ref name=Harper/>
* [[March 23]] &ndash; British troops capture [[Martinique]] from the [[France|French]].<ref name="The People's Chronology1">{{cite book|chapter=1794|title=The People's Chronology|editor=Everett, Jason M.|publisher=Thomson Gale|year=2006|url=http://www.enotes.com/peoples-chronology|access-date=2007-06-05|archive-date=August 22, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070822205439/http://www.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Tadeusz Kościuszko]] makes [[Kościuszko's proclamation|his proclamation]] starting the [[Kościuszko Uprising]] against the [[Russian Empire]] and [[Kingdom of Prussia]] in the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] and [[Prussian Partition]].
* [[March 26]] &ndash; The U.S. lays a 60-day embargo on all shipping to and from Great Britain.<ref name=Harper/>
* [[March 27]]
**The United States Government authorizes the building of the first six [[United States Navy]] vessels; in [[1797]] the first three frigates, {{USS|United States|1797|2}}, {{USS|Constellation|1797|2}} and {{USS|Constitution||2}} will go into service (not to be confused with October 13, 1775, which is observed as the Navy's Birthday).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.history.navy.mil/birthday.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150101222021/http://www.history.navy.mil/birthday.htm|url-status=dead|title=Navy's Birthday|archivedate=January 1, 2015}}</ref>
**The U.S. Senate passes a rule ending its policy of closing all of its sessions to the public.<ref name=Harper/>

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[Battle of Racławice]]: Polish supporters of the [[Kościuszko Uprising]] defeat forces of the [[Russian Empire]].
* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[Reign of Terror]]: [[Georges Danton]] and [[Camille Desmoulins]] are executed.
* [[April 17]]&ndash;[[April 19|19]] &ndash; [[Kościuszko Uprising]] &ndash; [[Warsaw Uprising (1794)|Warsaw Uprising]]: The Polish people overthrow the [[Russian Empire|Russian]] garrison in [[Warsaw]].
* [[April 19]] &ndash; Britain, [[Prussia]] and the [[Dutch Republic|Netherlands]] sign a treaty of alliance against France.<ref name="The People's Chronology1"/>
* [[April 28]] &ndash; [[Sa die de sa Sardigna|Sardinian Vespers]]: The people of [[Cagliari]] in [[Sardinia]] oust the viceroy and his Piedmontese functionaries.
* [[April 29]]&ndash;[[May 1]] &ndash; [[Battle of Boulou]]: The French defeat the Spanish and Portuguese forces.
* [[May 7]] &ndash; [[Robespierre]] establishes the [[Cult of the Supreme Being]] as the new [[state religion]] of the [[French First Republic]].
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Reign of Terror]]: chemist [[Antoine Lavoisier]] is tried, convicted and executed in Paris with 27 co-defendants also associated with the former ''[[ferme générale]]''.
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Battle of Tourcoing]]: French troops defeat British forces.
*  [[May 21]] &ndash; the [[French Revolution]]ary Government decides that the [[Reign of Terror|Terror]] would be centralised, with almost all the [[revolutionary Tribunal|tribunals]] in the provinces closed and all the trials held in Paris.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=9lWNCwAAQBAJ&dq=government+decided+that+the+Terror+would+be+centralised&pg=PR14-IA87 The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny by Ian Davidson, p. xiv]</ref>
* [[May 28]]&ndash;[[June 1]] &ndash; The [[Glorious First of June]] (Battle of Ushant): The British win a crushing tactical victory over the French fleet, but the merchant convoy escorted by the French fleet arrives safely in France.
* [[May 30]]&ndash;[[June 4]] &ndash; [[Battle of Port-Républicain]]: British troops capture [[Port-au-Prince]] in [[Haiti]] from the French.<ref name="The People's Chronology1"/>
* [[June 17]]
** The [[Anglo-Corsican Kingdom]] is established.
** [[Battle of Mykonos]]: The British [[Royal Navy]] captures {{ship|French frigate|Sibylle|1791|6}}. 
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[Bowdoin College]] is founded in [[Brunswick, Maine]]. 
* [[June 26]] &ndash; [[Battle of Fleurus (1794)|Battle of Fleurus]]: French forces defeat the Austrians and their allies, leading to permanent loss of the [[Austrian Netherlands]] and destruction of the [[Dutch Republic]]. French use of an [[observation balloon]] marks the first participation of an aircraft in battle.
* June&ndash;July &ndash; [[Mount Vesuvius]] erupts in Italy; the town of [[Torre del Greco]] is destroyed.<ref>{{cite book|author-link=David Constantine|first=David|last=Constantine|title=Fields of Fire|location=London|publisher=Phoenix Press|year=2002|isbn=1842125818|pages=194–5}}</ref>

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Horatio Nelson]] loses the sight in his right eye in the British [[Siege of Calvi]] in [[Corsica]].
* [[July 13]] &ndash; [[Battle of Trippstadt]] between [[French First Republic|French]] forces and those of [[Prussia]] and [[Austria]] ([[First Coalition]]).
* [[July 13]]&ndash;[[September 6]] &ndash; [[Kościuszko Uprising]]: [[Siege of Warsaw (1794)|Siege of Warsaw]] &ndash; The Polish people resist a siege by armies of the [[Russian Empire]] and [[Kingdom of Prussia]].
* [[July 17]] &ndash; The sixteen [[Carmelite]] [[Martyrs of Compiègne]] are [[guillotine]]d in Paris in the last stage of the French Revolution's [[Reign of Terror]].
* [[July 27]] ([[9 Thermidor]]) &ndash; [[French Revolution]] &ndash; [[Thermidorian Reaction]]: [[Maximilien Robespierre|Maximilien]], [[Augustin Robespierre]]  and [[Louis Antoine de Saint-Just|Saint-Just]] are arrested on the orders of the French [[National Convention]]; they are executed the next day, ending the French Revolution's [[Reign of Terror]].
* August &ndash; Colombian [[Antonio Nariño]] is denounced as a traitor after he translates and publishes the French ''[[Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Victor M. Uribe-Uran|title=Honorable Lives: Lawyers, Family, and Politics in Colombia, 1780–1850|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kKdqrJfSO28C&pg=PA40|date=15 March 2000|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Pre|isbn=978-0-8229-7732-2|pages=40}}</ref>
* [[August 1]] &ndash; Aristocrats in [[Sweden]] gather to mourn the demise of [[coffee]] after the beverage is forbidden by royal decree.<ref name="WeinbergBealer2001">{{cite book|last1=Weinberg|first1=Bennett Alan|last2=Bealer|first2=Bonnie K.|title=The world of caffeine: the science and culture of the world's most popular drug|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YdpL2YCGLVYC&pg=PA92|access-date=2015-05-12|year=2001|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-92722-2|pages=92–3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Calestous Juma|title=Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gN0mDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA62|year=2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-046703-6|pages=62}}</ref>
* [[August 9]] &ndash; [[Napoleon]] is arrested and put under [[house arrest]] at [[Nice]] for his association with the [[Maximilien Robespierre|Robespierres]] during their fall in the [[Thermidorian Reaction]]. He is later taken to [[Antibes]] and detained in a military fort.<ref>Dwyer, Philip (2015). "Napoleon, the Revolution and the Empire". ''The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution'', p. 157. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-19-963974-8}}.</ref>
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]] in [[Northwestern Ohio]]: American troops under the command of General [[Anthony Wayne]] (nicknamed "Mad Anthony") defeat Native American tribes of the [[Western Confederacy]].<ref name=Harper/>
* [[August 21]] &ndash; British troops capture [[Corsica]] following the bombardment by [[Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson|Nelson]].<ref name="The People's Chronology1"/>
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[Stonyhurst College]] is finally established as a Roman Catholic school in Lancashire, England, having had several European locations.
* [[September 10]] &ndash; The [[University of Tennessee]] is established at [[Knoxville]].
* [[September 23]] &ndash; France occupies [[Aachen]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Christopher J. Kauffman|title=Tamers of Death: The history of the Alexian Brothers from 1789 to the present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B4UlAQAAIAAJ|date=1 December 1978|publisher=Seabury Press|page=23|isbn=9780816403875}}</ref>
* [[September 28]] &ndash; [[Austria]], Britain and [[Russia]] ally against France.<ref name="The People's Chronology1"/>

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Battle of Aldenhoven (1794)|Battle of Aldenhoven]] between [[French First Republic|French]] forces and those of [[Austria]].
* [[October 4]] &ndash; In the first and only instance of an incumbent United States president leading men into battle, [[George Washington]] arrives at [[Carlisle, Pennsylvania]] to guide the U.S. Army's suppression of the [[Whiskey Rebellion]].<ref>{{cite book|first=William|last=Hogeland|title=The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty|publisher=Simon and Schuster|year=2015|page=213}}</ref>  The rebels soon disperse and the insurrection collapses by the end of the month.
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[Battle of Maciejowice]]: Forces of the [[Russian Empire]] defeat Polish supporters of the [[Kościuszko Uprising]]; [[Tadeusz Kościuszko]] is wounded and captured.
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Fort Wayne, Indiana|Fort Wayne]] founded in what is now the U.S. state of [[Indiana]].
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Battle of Praga]]: Russian General [[Alexander Suvorov]] storms [[Warsaw]] in the war against the Polish [[Kościuszko Uprising]] and captures Praga, one of its suburbs, unwittingly killing many civilians.
* [[November 14]] &ndash; The first recorded meeting of the [[Literary societies at Washington & Jefferson College|Franklin Literary Society]] is held at Canonsburg Academy (modern-day [[Washington & Jefferson College]]).<ref>{{cite book|last=McClelland|first=W. C.|chapter=A History of Literary Societies at Washington & Jefferson College|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t1QyAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA111|publisher=George H. Buchanan and Company|title=The Centennial Celebration of the Chartering of Jefferson College in 1802|year=1903|location=Philadelphia|pages=111–132|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t1QyAAAAYAAJ}}</ref>
* [[November 16]] &ndash; The [[Kościuszko Uprising]] ends in the defeat of [[Tadeusz Kościuszko]] and his forces.
* [[November 19]] &ndash; The United States and Great Britain sign the [[Jay Treaty]] (coming into effect in 1796), which attempts to clear up some issues left over from the [[American Revolutionary War]]<ref name="The People's Chronology 1704">{{cite book|chapter=1794|title=The People's Chronology|editor=Everett, Jason M.|publisher=Thomson Gale|year=2006|url=http://www.enotes.com/peoples-chronology|access-date=2007-06-05|archive-date=2007-08-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070822205439/http://www.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and secures a decade of peaceful trade between the two nations.<ref name=Harper/> Britain agrees to evacuate border forts in the [[Northwest Territory]] (roughly the area north of the [[Ohio River]] and east of the [[Mississippi]]) and thereby end British support for the Indians.
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Battle of St-Laurent-de-la-Muga (1794)|Battle of St-Laurent-de-la-Muga]] fought between French and Spanish forces.
* [[December 8]] &ndash; The [[Great New Orleans Fire (1794)]] burns over 200 buildings in the [[French Quarter]].
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans]] is dedicated.

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* The [[Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry]], a [[British Army|British]] [[Yeomanry]] [[Cavalry]] [[Regiment]], is formed by the [[Marquess of Ailsa|Earl of Cassillis]] at [[Culzean Castle]], [[Ayrshire]].
* The [[Oban distillery]] is built in Scotland.</onlyinclude>