1794 in Great Britain

none 1794 yes Events from the year 1794 in Great Britain. Incumbents Monarch – George III Prime Minister – William Pitt the Younger (Tory)History of William Pitt 'The Younger' - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/william-pitt www.gov.uk 1 July 2023 en Foreign Secretary – Lord Grenville Events 12 March – rebuilt Theatre Royal, Drury Lane opens in London. 23 March – British troops capture Martinique from the French.1794 The People's Chronology Everett, Jason M. Thomson Gale 2006 http://www.enotes.com/peoples-chronology 2007-06-05 2007-08-22 https://web.archive.org/web/20070822205439/http://www.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/ dead 19 April – Britain signs a treaty of alliance with Prussia and the Netherlands against France. 21 April – British troops seize Guadeloupe but the French regain control on 7 June. 8 May – Robert Burns' song Scots Wha Hae published in the Morning Chronicle. 9 May – Enlistment Act 1794 is passed, allowing Frenchmen (and other foreigners) to join the British Army. 14 May – Hambletonian wins his first race. He will win every subsequent race he finishes in his career. 1 June – Glorious First of June: A British victory over the French in the first major naval battle of the French Revolutionary Wars. The first official naval medals are awarded (selectively) to senior officers involved. 4 June – British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti from the French. 17 June The Anglo-Corsican Kingdom is established. Battle of Mykonos: HMS Romney captures French frigate Sibylle. 12 July – Horatio Nelson loses his right eye during the Siege of Calvi in Corsica.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 23 July – Ratcliffe Fire destroys over 400 homes in London. 21 August – British troops capture Corsica following the bombardment by Nelson. 29 August – the Jesuit school Stonyhurst College, founded in France by Robert Persons relocates to England.http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9069820/Stonyhurst-College Stonyhurst College Encyclopædia Britannica Robert Persons 11 Pollen John Hungerford 1 September – Popgun plot: alleged conspiracy to assassinate King George III with a poisoned dart.Emsley Clive Clive Emsley 2000 The Pop-Gun Plot, 1794 Davis, Michael T. Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775–1848: essays in honour of Malcolm I. Thomis Basingstoke Macmillan 56–68 0-333-74309-1James Parkinson Whonamedit? http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/392.html 2011-04-09 2021-02-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20210214011720/http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/392.html dead 28 September – Britain allies with Russia and Austria against France. 15 October – Catholic seminarians forced to leave the English College, Douai, settle at Crook Hall, County Durham. November – 1794 Treason Trials. 19 November – Britain and the United States sign the Jay Treaty (coming into effect 1796), which attempts to clear up some issues left over from the American Revolutionary War and secures a decade of peaceful trade between the two nations.Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1909 Benson John Lossing Woodrow Wilson Harper & Brothers 1910 170 Ongoing French Revolutionary Wars, First Coalition Undated Erasmus Darwin's Zoönomia published, anticipating later theories of evolution. Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason published. Mrs Radcliffe's Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho published. Uvedale Price's Essay on the Picturesque, As Compared With The Sublime and The Beautiful published. First issue of The Gallery of Fashion which becomes influential in disseminating developments in women's fashion.Sarah Jane Downing Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen Oxford Shire Publications 2010 978-0-7478-0767-4 St Mary's College is established at Old Oscott, near Birmingham, the first Roman Catholic seminary in England since the Reformation. The music of the Welsh march Men of Harlech is first published (without words) as Gorhoffedd Gwŷr Harlech—March of the Men of Harlech in the second edition of The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards.Fuld James J. The Book of World-famous Music: classical, popular, and folk Dover 5th 2000 394 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 Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1868) 30 August – John Rennie the Younger, civil engineer (died 1874) Unknown date – William Forster Lloyd, economist (died 1852) Approximate date – William Heath, caricaturist (died 1840) 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 May – Yemmerrawanne, Aboriginal Australian (born c. 1775) 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) See also 1794 in Wales References 1794 Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1794 by country Category:1790s in Great Britain