May 30 Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public

May 17 In Alberta, Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 sights the Rockies.

May 19 Netherlands captures French island of St Maarten (held until 1795)

May 21 Curaçao Island Council forbids criticism on House of Orange

May 25 Father Stephen Theodore Badin is first US Roman Catholic priest ordained

Jan 23 Humane Society of Philadelphia (first aid society) organized

Jan 21 Louis XVI, the King of France, is guillotined during the French revolution

Jan 19 French King Louis XVI sentenced to death

Jan 21 Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided)

Jan 21 Jan 21, King Louis the 16th of France is found guilty of treason and beheaded during the Revolution.

Jan 09 Jean-Pierre Blanchard makes the first successful balloon flight in the U.S. His hydrogen-filled balloon lifts off in Philadelphia, PA and lands 15 miles away in Woodbury, NJ.

Jan 09 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes first balloon flight in North America (Philadelphia)

Jan 09 Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery

Jan 19 King Louis XVI sentenced to death by the French Convention

Jan 23 2nd partition of Poland, between Prussia &Russia

Feb 12 US fugitive slave law passed which requires return of escaped slaves

Feb 25 US President George Washington and his department heads hold their first Cabinet meeting.

Feb 01 France declares war on England & Netherlands

Feb 01 Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, New York, for oiled silk & linen

Feb 11 Prussian troops occupy Venlo Netherlands

Feb 24 French troops conquer Breda

Apr 17 Battle of Warsaw

Nov 26 Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France

Nov 08 Louvre in Paris, opens

Nov 08 The Louvre Museum opens in Paris.

Sep 29 Tennis is first mentioned in an English sporting magazine

Sep 18 Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building

Jun 20 Eli Whitney applies for a cotton gin patent

Jun 02 Jean-Paul Marat, reciting the names of 29 "enemies of the republic", kicks of the French reign of terror.

Jun 24 The first republican constitution in France adopted

Dec 14 First state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky to Cincinnati

Dec 09 Noah Webster establishes New York's first daily newspaper, American Minerva

Aug 01 The metric unit of mass, the kilogram, is introduced in France

Aug 23 In France, the first ever national conscription introduced for unmarried men from ages 18 to 25

Oct 28 Eli Whitney applies for a patent for his cotton gin (the patent is issued in March of 1794).

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