1794 in Great Britain
Events from the year 1794 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
Ongoing
Undated
Births
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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- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ Emsley, Clive (2000). "The Pop-Gun Plot, 1794". In Davis, Michael T. (ed). Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775-1848: essays in honour of Malcolm I. Thomis. Basingstoke: Macmillan. pp. 56–68. ISBN 0333743091.
- ^ "James Parkinson". Whonamedit?. http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/392.html. Retrieved 2011-04-09.
- ^ Downing, Sarah Jane (2010). Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen. Oxford: Shire Publications. ISBN 978-0-7478-0767-4.
- ^ "Stonyhurst College". Encyclopædia Britannica. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9069820/Stonyhurst-College.
- ^ "Robert Parsons". Catholic Encyclopedia. 1913. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_%281913%29/Robert_Persons?oldid=404094. Retrieved 2008-07-09.
- ^ Fuld, James J. (2000). The Book of World-famous Music: classical, popular, and folk (5th ed.). Dover. p. 394.
See also