Year (''' 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 ).
- July 13 - Battle Of The Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria .
- July 17 - The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs Of Compiegne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign Of Terror .
- ousts Maximilien Robespierre - he is arrested when he encourages the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution."
- July 28 - Maximilien Robespierre is Guillotine d in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution .
- of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on Liquor and distilled drinks.
- August 20 - Battle Of Fallen Timbers - American troops force a confederacy of Shawnee , Mingo , Delaware , Wyandot , Miami , Ottawa , Chippewa and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat.
- October 22 - Fort Wayne founded in what is now the U.S. state of Indiana .
- October 2 - Battle Of Aldenhoven between French forces and those Austria .
- November 19 - The United States and the Kingdom Of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty , which attempts to clear up some of the lingering issues left over from the American Revolutionary War .
- November 20 - Battle Of St-Laurent-de-la-Muga fought between French and Spanish forces.
- December 8 - The Great New Orleans Fire (1794) burns over 200 buildings in the French Quarter .
- December 23 - In New Orleans , St. Louis Cathedral is dedicated.
- 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 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Charles Thomas Longley , Archbishop Of Canterbury (d. 1868 )
- --- Mirza Shafi Vazeh , Azerbaijani poet (d.1852)
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- 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 )
- 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
- --- Georges Danton , French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1759 )
- --- Camille Desmoulins , French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1760 )
- --- Marie Jean Hérault De Séchelles , French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1759 )
- --- Fabre D'Églantine , French dramatist and revolutionary (executed) (b. 1750 )
- --- François Joseph Westermann , French Revolutionary leader and general (executed)
- 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
- --- François Nicolas Leonard Buzot , French Revolutionary leader (suicide) (b. 1760 )
- --- James Murray , British military officer and administrator
- June 27
- --- Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz , Austrian statesman (b. 1711 )
- --- Philippe De Noailles, Duc De Mouchy , French soldier (executed) (b. 1715 )
- --- Charles-Louis-Victor, Prince De Broglie , French soldier (executed) (b. 1756 )
- 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
- --- Maximilien Robespierre , French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1758 )
- --- Augustin Robespierre , French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1763 )
- --- Louis De Saint-Just , French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1767 )
- --- François Hanriot , French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1761 )
- 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 )
- December 7 - Victor Maitre , French aristocrat (b. 1740 )
: ''See also .''
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