Page 3: Historical Events In 1794

Jul 02   Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer, dies at 65   

Jul 03   Eberhard F Walcker, German organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt)   

Jul 05   Sylvester Graham, developed graham cracker   

Jul 07   Pascal Boyer, composer, dies at 51.   

Jul 12   Heinrich Christian Pander, Russian zoologist.   

Jul 13   Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria   

Jul 14   John G Lockhart, [Scorpion], biographer (Life of Sir Walter Scott).   

Jul 17   African Church of St Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated.   

Jul 17   Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45.   

Jul 17   Richard Allen organizes Phila's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church   

Jul 22   Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, composer, dies at 59   

Jul 25   Andrea-Marie Chenier, French poet (Avis aux Francais sur leurs), dies   

Jul 27   Coup of thermidor/fall of Robespierre in Paris.   

Jul 28   Georges Couthon, French politician, beheaded at 39.   

Jul 31   All Jacobijnse clubs together in Haarlem   

Aug 01   Whiskey Rebellion begins.   

Aug 08   Joseph Whidbey and George Vancouver lead an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska   

Aug 10   Leopold Zunz, German scientist (Synagogical Poetry)   

Aug 11   Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, composer, dies at 72   

Aug 14   George Colman, the Elder, playwright, dies   

Aug 15   Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (System mycologicum).   

Aug 16   Hungarian revolutionary Ignác Martinovics arrested in Vienna.   

Aug 20   Gen Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at Fallen Timbers Ohio.   

Aug 20   Gen Mad Anthony Wayne routes Indians at Fallen Timbers, Ohio   

Aug 26   French troops occupy Lock.   

Aug 28   Johannes Zwijsen, archbishop (Utrecht Netherlands)   

Sep 27   French troops conquer Crèvecoeur   

Sep 28   Britain, Austria and Russia form alliance against France   

Sep 29   William Michael Rooke, composer   

Oct 09   French troops occupy Hertogenbosch.   

Oct 12   James Lyon, composer, dies at 59   

Oct 13   Anselm Huttenbrenner, composer.   

Oct 18   Ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer   

Oct 20   James Adam, System architect (essays on agriculture), dies at about 64.   

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Jan 06   Kaspar masek: Composer   

Jan 10   Georg forster: German scientist and revolutionary    

Jan 25   François-vincent raspail: French chemist    

Feb 12   Alexander petrov: Russian chess player   

Feb 20   William carleton: Irish novelist   

Feb 21   Antonio lopez de santa anna: President of mexico (1833-36)   

Feb 25   Gerrit schimmelpenninck: Dutch earl of nijenhuis/peckedam   

Mar 05   Jacques babinet: French physicist/mathematician/astronomer   

Jan 08   Justus möser: German statesman (b. 1720)   

Jan 10   Georg forster: German scientist and revolutionary    

Jan 16   Edward gibbon: Historian (decline & fall),   

Jan 31   Marriott arbuthnot: British admiral (b. 1711)   

Mar 04   Henri d count de larochejacquelin: Fr royalist army leader,    

Mar 29   Marie-j-a-n c condorcet: Mathematician (theory of comets),    

Apr 05   Georges-jacques danton: French revolutionary leader, guillotined at 34   

Apr 08   Marie-jean-antoine-nicholas-caritat: Mathematician