1794 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1794 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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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.[1]
- 19 April - Britain signs a treaty of alliance with Prussia and the Netherlands against France.[1]
- 21 April - British troops seize Guadeloupe but the French regained control on 7 June.[1]
- 8 May - Robert Burns' song Scots Wha Hae published in the Morning Chronicle.[1]
- 1 June - Glorious First of June: A British victory over the French in the first major naval battle of the French Revolutionary Wars.[1]
- 4 June - British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti from the French.[1]
- 12 July - Admiral Lord Nelson loses his right eye during a military operation in Corsica.[2]
- 21 August - British troops capture Corsica following bombardment by Lord Nelson.[1]
- 28 September - Britain allies with Russia and Austria against France.[1]
- 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.[1]
Ongoing
Undated
- Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason published.[1]
- The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane opens.[1]
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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