Year 1794 (MDCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). [edit] Events of 1794 [edit] January–June [edit] July–December [edit] Undated [edit] Ongoing events [edit] Births - February 20 – William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869)
- February 21 – Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican general and President of Mexico (d. 1876)
- April 10 – Matthew Calbraith Perry, American commodore (d. 1858)
- May 17 – Anna Brownell Jameson, British writer (d. 1860)
- May 24 – William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher, and historian of science (d. 1866)
- May 27 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1877)
- July 5 – Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist and inventor (d. 1851)
- November 3 – William Cullen Bryant, American poet (d. 1878)
- November 10 – Robert Towns, merchant and founder of Townsville, Queensland, Australia (d. 1873)
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[edit] Deaths - January 4 – Nicolas Luckner, Marshal of France (executed) (b. 1722)
- January 6 – Louis d'Elbée, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1752)
- January 8 – Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720)
- January 16 – Edward Gibbon, English historian (b. 1737)
- January 28 – Henri de la Rochejaquelein, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1772)
- January 31 – Mariot Arbuthnot, British admiral (b. 1711)
- February 12 – Srinath Madhavji Shinde alias Srinath Mahadji Shinde, The Great Maratha Emperor of India (1764–1794)
- March 24 – Jacques Hébert, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1757)
- March 28 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist (died in prison) (b. 1743)
- April 5
- April 13 – Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1763)
- April 13 – Lucile Duplessis, wife of Camille Desmoulins (executed) (b. 1770)
- April 18 – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
- April 23 – Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (executed) (b. 1721)
- April 27 – Sir William Jones, British philologist (b. 1746)
- May 8 – Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (executed) (b. 1743)
- June 14 – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (b. 1718)
- June 17 – Marguerite-Élie Guadet, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1753)
- June 18
- June 27
- July 13 – James Lind, pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy (b. 1716)
- July 17 – John Roebuck, English inventor (b. 1718)
- July 23 – Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais, French politician and general (executed) (b. 1760)
- July 25, André Chénier, French writer (executed) (b. 1762)
- July 28
- August 6 – Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)
- September 4 – John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b. 1724)
- September 15 – Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)
- September 25 – Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
- October 21 – Francis Light, founder of the British colony of Penang (b. 1740)
- November 3 – François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1715)
- November 15 – John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1723)
- November 16 – Jean-Baptiste Carrier, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1756)
- November 22 – John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
- November 28 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (b. 1730)
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