Feb 4French National Convention proclaims abolition of slavery

Feb 10Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E premieres, in London, England

Mar 14Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin, revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states[1]

Mar 23 Polish generalTadeusz Kościuszko returns to Kraków, Poland to led the Kościuszko Uprising against Russian and Prussian control

Mar 27 Naval Act of 1794 is signed by PresidentGeorge Washington, authorizing the building of six frigates and establishing a permanent US Navy

Apr 7 English chemist and theologianJoseph Priestley departs England for America on board Sansom at Gravesend

Apr 21Joséphine de Beauharnais, future Empress of French and first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, is imprisoned during the Reign of Terror

May 6 In HaitiToussaint Louverture changes sides, ambushing his former ally the Spanish at San Raphael

Jun 23 Russian EmpressCatherine II (Catherine the Great) grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev

Jun 26 Battle of Fleurus: Major victory by forces of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburgs) with the first use of a reconnaissance balloon

Jul 23Alexandre de Beauharnais, the first husband ofJoséphine de Beauharnais, is executed for treason during the Reign of Terror

Jul 27Maximilien Robespierre is overthrown in a coup in Paris

Jul 28 French Revolutionary figureMaximilien Robespierre and 22 other leaders of "the Terror" are guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris

Aug 20 Battle of Fallen Timbers: Major General "Mad Anthony" Wayne defeats a joint British-Native American force at Fallen Timbers, Ohio in the final battle of the Northwest Indian War

Sep 21 French National Convention orders the remains ofComte de Mirabeau be removed from the Panthéon after his double-dealings with court revealed

Sep 21Jean-Paul Marat's remains are transferred to the Panthéon in Paris, with the eulogy given by theMarquis de Sade

Oct 31John Dalton's first lecture to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society is titled "Extraordinary Facts Relating to the Vision of Colours," describing his own color blindness, which later becomes known as Daltonism