This page relates to the year 1794 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

America

North America

  • June: Formation of Association for the maintenance of the laws, the constitution and the government of the province of the Low-Canada “whose object is to detect revolutionary hearths”.

  • the farmers of the west of the Pennsylvania, producers of grains, take the weapons and rise against the collection of the tax on the Whiskey. The secretary with the Treasury Hamilton leads itself the troops which repress the rebellion.

  • November 19th: Treaty of London between the the United States and the British solving the different ones at the border from western north from the United States (ratified in 1795).

Africa

Oceania & the Pacific

Asia

  • Bankruptcy of the Dutch Company of the Eastern Indies (VOC).
  • the Siam removes the Kampuchean provinces of Battambang and Angkor (fine in 1907).

The Middle East

  • eunuque Kadjar Aga Muhammad is made proclaim Chah with Teheran and founds the Dynastie of Kadjars (fine in 1925). It subjects all the Iran on which it imposes its tyranny (end in 1797). It takes again the Georgia with the Russians, overcomes Afchar Chah Rukh.

Europe

  • 17 and April 18th: Engagements of Arlon.
  • April 30th: French Victoire with the Battle of Boulou.
  • May 18th: French Victoire with the Battle of Tourcoing.
  • May 22nd: Victoire of the united to the Bataille of Turned.
  • June 1st: 13 meadow year Battle II with broad of Ushant.
  • June 26th: The French Army of Jourdan carries the victory over the troops britanno-Dutchwomen with the battles of Fleurus. The army of Convention occupies the Belgium during the summer, then invades the Netherlands (1794 - 1795).
  • August 10th: End of the Head office of Calvi.
  • 17 and September 18th: French Victoire with the Battle of Sprimont.
    • the Belgian Flanders is divided into two French departments.
  • 17 - November 20th: French Victoire with the Battle of the Sierra Negra.
    • the French occupy the Guipúzcoa and the Catalogne. Figueras falls to the end of the year, in the panic which follows the death of the Count of Unión. The French do not succeed in awaking the independence feeling of its areas, because of plunderings and déchristianisatrice measurements of the occupying armies.
  • November 22nd: Beginning of the Head office of Luxembourg (1794-1795).

    • Discovered of a plot Jacobin to Vienna.
    • Ignace Martinovics and Joseph Hajnoczy organizes the plot of the Hungarian Jacobins. It is liquidated soon in a brutal way. 18 of the 49 marked ones are condemned to died for high treason.
    • Suspension of the Habeas corpus to fight against the radicals in Great Britain.
    • Foundation of Odessa.

France

See also: 1794 in France

Poland

  • March 23rd: Insurrection of the Polish patriots against the Russia with Cracow. Tadeusz Kościuszko is invested of a “dictatorial capacity” by the immigrant patriots of Dresden.
  • March 24th: Tadeusz Kościuszko promulgates with Cracow a new constitution and indicates an insurrectionary government, called supreme National council; courses martial are instituted to continue the traitors, of the local commissions formed for half of noble and for half of middle-class man must manage the country. An army is formed by obligatory recruitment of a infantryman per farm and of a rider for fifty, that is to say 100  000 infantrymen and 10  000 riders. Kosciuszko obtains the support of the peasants (it softens the mode of serfdom) but will not join together more 70  000 men.
  • Mars: Intervention of the Prussia.
  • April 4th (March 24th of the Calendar Julien): Winner of the Russians to the Battle of Racławice, Tadeusz Kościuszko manages to drive out the Prussians and the Russians of Warsaw thanks to the rising of the people of the capital (April).
  • April 23rd (April 11th of the Calendar Julien): Vilno is raised in its turn. The “Jacobins” there seize the power and devote themselves to executions. With Warsaw, the council is moderate, but a “club of the Jacobins” obliges it to make hang the chiefs of the preserving confederation of Targowica. A revolutionary climate develops with Cracow as with Warsaw, where brackets are placed at the crossroads, but the Jacobins and the moderate ones are opposed on the problem of terror.
  • During the summer, from great portions of the Poland occupied by the Russians is released.
  • June 6th: The Prussia Kosciuszko pack with Szczekonicy and occupies Cracow the June 15th.
  • June 28th: With Warsaw, a massacre is perpetrated in the prisons, by fear of the Russians and the Prussians who encircle the capital: 20  000 Polish soldiers oppose 40  000 enemies. Kosciuszko intervenes, fights battles in the suburbs and completes important work of fortification. The seat is raised in August by the rising of the Large-Poland, then Prussian, who causes the retirement of the troops of Frederic-Guillaume II of Prussia. But the Poles must incline themselves in front of the numerical superiority of the Russians.
  • October 10th Kosciuszko is beaten and made captive at the time of the Bataille of Majociewice by the army of Aleksandr Souvorov.
  • November 4th: Warsaw capitulates after the massacre of the population of the suburb of Praga by the troops of Souvorov. 20  000 civilians are killed by the Russian soldiers.

  • the insurrectionary government of Kosciuszko takes important measures concerning the peasants: abolition of personal serfdom, freedom of displacement, guarantee of the possession of the ground, reduction in the drudgeries. They will be repealed at once by the powers partageantes.

Religion

Art & Culture

See also: 1794 with the theater, 1794 in literature

Sciences and technology

  • September 1st: the line of semaphore of Chappe informs the Parisian ones of the victory of Cop-on-the Scheldt over the Austrians less than one hour after the event.

Economy & Company

  • Creation of the Institute asturien devoted to the coal mining.
  • First spinning mill of Cotton in Germany.
  • Russia: The “Funds of the Room”, private goods of the imperial family (1,5 million roubles) are given to the Treasury to make up the deficit.

Births in 1794

Death in 1794

* Fabre d' Églantine, French poet (guillotine).
* Georges Jacques Danton, French politician (guillotine).
* Herault de Séchelles, statesman (guillotine).
* Camille Desmoulins, revolutionary French (guillotine).
* Claude Basire (guillotine). * Maximilien de Robespierre, lawyer and politician French (guillotine).
* Augustin de Robespierre, his younger brother, deputy with the Convention (guillotine).
* Louis Antoine Leon de Saint-Just, poet and politician French (guillotine).
* Georges Couthon, lawyer (guillotine).
* Philippe-François-Joseph Bottom, politician (guillotine).
* Jacques-Claude Bernard (guillotine).

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