1794 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1794 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

*Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - William Pitt the Younger, Tory

Events

* 23 March - British troops capture Martinique from the French."1794." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006. 5 Jun, 2007]
* 19 April - Britain signs a treaty of alliance with Prussia and the Netherlands against France.
* 21 April - British troops seize Guadeloupe but the French regained control on 7 June.
* 8 May - Robert Burns' song "Scots Wha Hae" published in the "Morning Chronicle".
* 1 June - Glorious First of June: A British victory over the French in the first major naval battle of the French Revolutionary Wars.
* 4 June - British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti from the French.
* 12 July - Admiral Lord Nelson loses his right eye during a military operation in Corsica.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 21 August - British troops capture Corsica following bombardment by Lord Nelson.
* 28 September - Britain allies with Russia and Austria against France.
* 19 November - The United States and Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to clear up some of the lingering issues left over from the American Revolutionary War.

Undated

* Thomas Paine's "The Age of Reason" published.
* The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane opens.

Births

* 17 May - Anna Brownell Jameson, writer (died 1860)
* 24 May - William Whewell, scientist, philosopher, and historian of science (died 1866)
* 14 July - John Gibson Lockhart, writer and editor (died 1854)
* 28 July - Charles Thomas Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1868)

Deaths

* 16 January - Edward Gibbon, historian (born 1737)
* 31 January - Mariot Arbuthnot, admiral (born 1711)
* 18 April - Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1714)
* 27 April - Sir William Jones, philologist (born 1746)
* 18 June - James Murray, military officer and administrator (born 1721)
* 13 July - James Lind, pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy (born 1716)
* 17 July - John Roebuck, inventor (born 1718)
* 6 August - Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, politician (born 1714)
* 21 October - Francis Light, founder of the British colony of Penang (born 1740)

References

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