1794 in Great Britain

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

[edit] Incumbents

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]

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)

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k "1794." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006. 5 Jun, 2007
^ (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.