- 1794 in France
"See also:"
1793 in France ,
other events of 1794,1795 in France .----
Events from the year
1794 inFrance .Events
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4 February - TheFrench Republic abolishes slavery.
*26 February -Ventôse Decrees , proposed to confiscate the property of exiles and opponents of the Revolution, and redistribute it to the needy.
*3 March - Ventôse Decrees.
*5 April - Execution ofGeorges Danton .
*30 April -War of the Pyrenees :Battle of Boulou , French victory against Spain and Portugal.
*8 May -Antoine Lavoisier is executed byguillotine .
*18 May - Battle of Tourcoing, French victory over Austrian and British forces.
*22 May -Battle of Tournay , Coalition forces (Austrian, British, and Hanoverian troops) defeated the French.
*1 June -Glorious First of June , French naval battle with the British. Both sides claimed victory.
*10 June -Law of 22 Prairial enacted, also known as the "loi de la Grande Terreur".
*26 June - Battle of Fleurus, French victory against Austria.
*13 July - Battle of Platzberg, French defeat Prussian forces.
*13 July -Battle of the Vosges , French defeat Austrian, Prussian and Saxony forces.
*27 July -Thermidorian Reaction began against the excesses of theReign of Terror . Robespierre and leaders of theParis city government arrested.
*28 July - Robespierre, Saint-Just, Georges Couthon, and others, including members of the Paris Commune were guillotined.
*15 September -Battle of Boxtel .
*2 October - Battle of Aldenhoven, French defeat Austrian forces.
*17 November -20 November - War of the Pyrenees:Battle of San-Lorenzo de la Muga , French defeat Spanish forces.
*22 November - Siege of Luxembourg. French siege of Austrian forces began (ended in French victory in June 1795).Births
January to March
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10 January -Jean Philibert Damiron ,philosopher (d.1862).
*13 January -Prosper Garnot , surgeon and naturalist (d.1838).
*17 January -Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps , naturalist andpalaeontologist (d.1867).
*25 January -Garcin de Tassy , orientalist (d.1878).
*25 January -François-Vincent Raspail ,chemist ,physiologist andsocialist (d.1878).
*9 February -Jacques-François Ancelot , dramatist (d.1854).
*5 March -Jacques Babinet , physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (d.1872).
*20 March -René-Primevère Lesson , surgeon and naturalist (d.1849).April to June
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4 April -Sabin Berthelot , naturalist andethnologist (d.1880).
*12 April -Germinal Pierre Dandelin ,mathematician ,soldier , andprofessor ofengineering (d.1847).
*15 April -Jean Pierre Flourens ,physiologist (d.1867).
*26 April -Jean-Pierre Falret ,psychiatrist (d.1870).
*29 May -Antoine Bussy ,chemist (d.1882).
*23 June -Louis Petitot , sculptor (d.1862).July to December
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29 July -Auguste Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély ,Marshal of France (d.1870).
*9 August -Achille Valenciennes ,zoologist (d.1865).
*29 August -Léon Cogniet , painter (d.1880).
*10 September -François Benoist ,composer andorganist (d.1878).
*September -Auguste Simon Paris , notary andentomologist (d.1869).
*22 October -Armand-Benjamin Caillau ,Roman Catholic priest, a missionary and writer (d.1850).
*6 November -Aimable Pélissier ,Marshal of France (d.1864).Full date unknown
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Etienne Arnal , actor (d.1872).
*Pierre-Médard Diard , naturalist andexplorer (d.1863).
*Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant , soldier and musicologist (d.1882).
*Jean Baptiste Douville , traveller and writer (d.1837).
*Frédéric Monod , [Protestant] pastor (d.1863).
*Pierre Adolphe Piorry , physician (d.1879).
*Jeanne Villepreux-Power , marine biologist (d.1871).
*Brutus de Villeroi ,submarine engineer (d.1874).Deaths
January to March
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28 January -Henri de la Rochejaquelein , youngest general of the Royalist Vendéan insurrection (b.1722).
*24 March -Jacques Hébert , editor of radical newspaper "Le Père Duchesne ", executed (b.1757).
*28 March -Marquis de Condorcet ,philosopher ,mathematician and political scientist (b.1743).April to June
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5 April -Georges Danton , leading figure early in theFrench Revolution , executed (b.1759).
*5 April -Camille Desmoulins , journalist and leading figure in the French Revolution, executed (b.1760).
*5 April -Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles , Revolutionary politician, executed (b.1759).
*5 April -Fabre d'Églantine , actor, dramatist and Revolutionary politician, executed (b.1750).
*5 April -François Joseph Westermann , General and Revolutionary politician, executed (b.1751).
*13 April -Pierre Gaspard Chaumette , Revolutionary politician, executed (b.1763).
*13 April -Lucile Duplessis , wife ofCamille Desmoulins , executed (b.1770).
*23 April -Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes , statesman and Minister, executed (b.1721).
*8 May -Antoine Lavoisier , nobleman and chemist, executed (b.1743).
*17 June -Marguerite-Élie Guadet , Royalist politician, executed (b.1753).
*18 June -François Buzot , revolutionary politician (b.1760).
*27 June -Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy ,Marshal of France , executed (b.1715).
*27 June -Charles-Louis-Victor, prince de Broglie , soldier and politician, executed (b.1756).July to December
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23 July -Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais , General and politician, executed (b.1760).
*25 July -André Chénier , poet, executed (b.1762).
*28 July -Maximilien Robespierre , Revolutionary leader, executed (b.1758).
*28 July -Augustin Robespierre , Revolutionary politician, executed (b.1763).
*28 July -Louis de Saint-Just , Revolutionary leader, executed (b.1767).
*28 July -François Hanriot , Revolutionary leader, executed (b.1761).
*25 September -Paul Rabaut ,Huguenot pastor (b.1718).
*3 November -François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis , Cardinal and statesman (b.1715).
*16 November -Jean-Baptiste Carrier , revolutionary politician, executed (b.1756).References
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