1794 in France

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The following lists events that happened during 1794 in the French Republic.

Events

• 4 February - The French Republic abolishes slavery.
• 26 February - Ventôse Decrees, proposed to confiscate the property of exiles and opponents of the Revolution, and redistribute it to the needy.
• 3 March - Ventôse Decrees.
• 5 April - Execution of Georges Danton.
• 30 April - War of the Pyrenees: Battle of Boulou, French victory against Spain and Portugal.
• 8 May - Antoine Lavoisier is executed by guillotine.
• 18 May - Battle of Tourcoing, French victory over Austrian and British forces.
• 22 May - Battle of Tournay, Coalition forces (Austrian, British, and Hanoverian troops) defeated the French.
• 1 June - Glorious First of June, French naval battle with the British. Both sides claimed victory.
• 10 June - Law of 22 Prairial enacted, also known as the loi de la Grande Terreur.
• 26 June - Battle of Fleurus, French victory against Austria.
• 13 July - Battle of Platzberg, French defeat Prussian forces.
• 13 July - Battle of the Vosges, French defeat Austrian, Prussian and Saxony forces.
• 27 July - Thermidorian Reaction began against the excesses of the Reign of Terror. Robespierre and leaders of the Paris city government arrested.
• 28 July - Robespierre, Saint-Just, Georges Couthon, and others, including members of the Paris Commune were guillotined.
• 15 September - Battle of Boxtel.
• 2 October - Battle of Aldenhoven, French defeat Austrian forces.
• 17 November-20 November - War of the Pyrenees: Battle of San-Lorenzo de la Muga, French defeat Spanish forces.
• 22 November - Siege of Luxembourg. French siege of Austrian forces began (ended in French victory in June 1795).

Undated

• Hospitals pass to ownership of the state.^[1]

Births

January to March

• 10 January - Jean Philibert Damiron, philosopher (died 1862).
• 13 January - Prosper Garnot, surgeon and naturalist (died 1838).
• 17 January - Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps, naturalist and palaeontologist (died 1867).
• 25 January
  • Garcin de Tassy, orientalist (died 1878).
  • François-Vincent Raspail, chemist, physiologist and socialist (died 1878).
• 2 February - Etienne Arnal, actor (died 1872).
• 9 February - Jacques-François Ancelot, dramatist (died 1854).
• 5 March - Jacques Babinet, physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (died 1872).
• 20 March - René-Primevère Lesson, surgeon and naturalist (died 1849).

April to June

• 4 April - Sabin Berthelot, naturalist and ethnologist (died 1880).
• 12 April - Germinal Pierre Dandelin, mathematician, soldier, and professor of engineering (died 1847).
• 15 April - Jean Pierre Flourens, physiologist (died 1867).
• 26 April - Jean-Pierre Falret, psychiatrist (died 1870).
• 29 May - Antoine Bussy, chemist (died 1882).
• 23 June - Louis Petitot, sculptor (died 1862).

July to December

• 29 July - Auguste Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély, Marshal of France (died 1870).
• 9 August - Achille Valenciennes, zoologist (died 1865).
• 29 August - Léon Cogniet, painter (died 1880).
• 10 September - François Benoist, composer and organist (died 1878).
• 24 September - Jeanne Villepreux-Power, marine biologist (died 1871).
• September - Auguste Simon Paris, notary and entomologist (died 1869).
• 22 October - Armand-Benjamin Caillau, Roman Catholic priest, a missionary and writer (died 1850).
• 6 November - Aimable Pélissier, Marshal of France (died 1864).
• 31 December - Pierre Adolphe Piorry, physician (died 1879).

Full date unknown

• Pierre-Médard Diard, naturalist and explorer (died 1863).
• Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant, soldier and musicologist (died 1882).
• Jean Baptiste Douville, traveller and writer (died 1837).
• Frédéric Monod, Protestant pastor (died 1863).
• Brutus de Villeroi, submarine engineer (died 1874).

Deaths

January to March

• 28 January - Henri de la Rochejaquelein, youngest general of the Royalist Vendéan insurrection (born 1772).
• 24 March - Jacques Hébert, editor of radical newspaper Le Père Duchesne, executed (born 1757).
• 28 March - Marquis de Condorcet, philosopher, mathematician and political scientist (born 1743).

April to June

• 5 April - Georges Danton, leading figure early in the French Revolution, executed (born 1759).
• 5 April - Camille Desmoulins, journalist and leading figure in the French Revolution, executed (born 1760).
• 5 April - Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles, Revolutionary politician, executed (born 1759).
• 5 April - Fabre d'Églantine, actor, dramatist and Revolutionary politician, executed (born 1750).
• 5 April - François Joseph Westermann, General and Revolutionary politician, executed (born 1751).
• 13 April - Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, Revolutionary politician, executed (born 1763).
• 13 April - Lucile Duplessis, wife of Camille Desmoulins, executed (born 1770).
• 23 April - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, statesman and Minister, executed (born 1721).
• 8 May - Antoine Lavoisier, nobleman and chemist, executed (born 1743).
• 17 June - Marguerite-Élie Guadet, Royalist politician, executed (born 1753).
• 18 June - François Buzot, revolutionary politician (born 1760).
• 27 June - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, Marshal of France, executed (born 1715).
• 27 June - Charles-Louis-Victor, prince de Broglie, soldier and politician, executed (born 1756).

July to December

• 23 July - Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais, General and politician, executed (born 1760).
• 25 July - André Chénier, poet, executed (born 1762).
• 28 July - Maximilien Robespierre, Revolutionary leader, executed (born 1758).
• 28 July - Augustin Robespierre, Revolutionary politician, executed (born 1763).
• 28 July - Louis de Saint-Just, Revolutionary leader, executed (born 1767).
• 28 July - François Hanriot, Revolutionary leader, executed (born 1761).
• 25 September - Paul Rabaut, Huguenot pastor (born 1718).
• 3 November - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, Cardinal and statesman (born 1715).
• 16 December - Jean-Baptiste Carrier, revolutionary politician, executed (born 1756).

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