History
1794
General
Population: 980 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include William Blake, Goethe, Xavier de Maistre, Jean Paul, Fichte, Thomas Paine The Age of Reason
Art includes Goya "Procession of the Flagellants", John Trumbell "The Declaration of Independence"
Music includes Burns "Auld Lang Syne", American opera "Tammany or the Indian Chief" by Hewitt, Haydn
- Science: Erasmus Darwin writes about the laws of Organic life
Adrien Legendre writes about geometry
Hutton publishes suggesting natural selection
- Technology: First military use of balloons
First semaphore signals sent via optical telescope
- Deaths: Poet Alison Cockburn, Explorer James Bruce, General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Dramatist Ramon de la Cruz, Author Girolamo Tiraboschi,
Historian Edward Gibbon, Chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Author Gottfries August Burger, Frenchman Maximilien de Robespierre (executed), Frenchman George Jacques Danton (executed),
Revolutionist Camille Desmoulins (executed), Poet Andre de Chenier (executed), Philosopher and mathematician Condorcet, Historian Edward Gibbon,
John Kendrick in 21-gun salute accident
Americas
- Ecuador: Tunquraohua erupts killing 40,000
- Mexico: Tuxtla volcano erupts
Asia
- China: Britisn missionary Mcartney arrives
Europe
- General: Start of Anglo-Corsican Kingdom
- France: End of Jacobian Reign of Terror with "Feast of the Supreme Being" - 17,000 guillotined total
The Commine of Paris abolished
Jacobin Club closed
Execution of revolutionaries including de Chenier, Desmoulins, Robspierre, St. Just, Danton, the chemist Lavoisier
First telegraph made between Paris and Lille
slavery abolished in French colonies
Ecole Normale founded in Paris
Ecole Polytechnique the worlds first technical college opens in Paris
- Great Britain: Habeas Corpus Act suspended
Drury Lane Theater in London reopened
Britain defeats France at Battle of the First of June
- Italian States: Mt. Vesuvius erupts
- Netherlands: Dutch republic invaded and fleet captured by France
- Poland: Polish Kosciuszko defeats Russians at Battle of Raclawice, but shortly Poland reabsorbed into Russia
- Russia: Rising of Political patriots under T.A. Kosciusko suppressed
Russia wins control of northern Black Sea coast from Ottoman Empire – founds city of Odessa
Middle East
- Persia: Aga (Agha) Mohammed founds Kajar dynasty and unites Persia
Qajar Dynasty in Persia to 1925
Pacific
- Hawaii: John Kendrick killed in Hawaii when other ship tries to send salute but cannon was accidentally loaded
President:
Pres: George Washington
General
- Abolition: Congress outlaws slave exportation
- Law: 11th Amendment passes
- Military: US Navy founded
John Kenrick – US captain and patriot dies in misfired 13-gun salute
- Natives: Little Turtle defeated at Battle of Fallen Timbers
US given right to settle in NW territories after defeating Natives
End of US Chickamauga wars from 1777
Treaties with Cherokee Six Nations and Oneida tribes
Iroquois sign treaty with United States government
- Politics: Thomas Paine freed from French prison
Jay's Treaty – US British trade treaty
- Technology: First US built steam engine by John Hewett at Beleville waterworks
East
- Pennsylvania: Bethel AME (African Methodist Episcopal Church) founded
Yellow fever outbreak
"Whiskey Insurrection" begins - Bootleggers refuse to pay tax and militia shuts down rebellion