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Events from the year '''1794 in the United States'''.

== Incumbents ==

=== Federal government ===
* [[President of the United States|President]]: [[George Washington]] (no political party-[[Virginia]])
* [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]: [[John Adams]] ([[Federalist Party|F]]-[[Massachusetts]])
* [[Chief Justice of the United States|Chief Justice]]: [[John Jay]] ([[New York (state)|New York]])
* [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House of Representatives]]: [[Frederick Muhlenberg]] ([[Anti-Administration Party (United States)|Anti-Admin.]]-Pennsylvania)
* [[United States Congress|Congress]]: [[3rd United States Congress|3rd]]

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=== Governors ===
* [[List of governors of Connecticut|Governor of Connecticut]]: [[Samuel Huntington (statesman)|Samuel Huntington]] ([[Federalist]])
* [[List of governors of Delaware|Governor of Delaware]]: [[Joshua Clayton]] ([[Federalist]])
* [[List of governors of Georgia|Governor of Georgia]]: [[George Mathews (Georgia)|George Mathews]] ([[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]])
* [[Governor of Kentucky]]: [[Issac Shelby]] ([[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]])
* [[Governor of Maryland]]: [[Thomas Sim Lee]] ([[Federalist]]) (until November 14), [[John Hoskins Stone]] ([[Federalist]]) (starting November 14)
* [[Governor of Massachusetts]]: [[Samuel Adams]] (no political party)
* [[Governor of New Hampshire]]: [[Josiah Bartlett]] ([[Democratic-Republican]]) (until June 5), [[John Taylor Gilman]] ([[Democratic-Republican]]) (starting June 5)
* [[Governor of New Jersey]]: [[Richard Howell]] ([[Federalist]])
* [[Governor of New York]]: [[George Clinton (vice president)|George Clinton]] ([[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]])
* [[Governor of North Carolina]]: [[Richard Dobbs Spaight]] ([[Federalist]])
* [[List of governors of Pennsylvania|Governor of Pennsylvania]]: [[Thomas Mifflin]] (no political party)
* [[List of governors of Rhode Island|Governor of Rhode Island]]: [[Arthur Fenner]] ([[Country Party (Rhode Island)|Country]])
* [[Governor of South Carolina]]: [[William Moultrie]] ([[Federalist]]) (until December 17), [[Arnoldus Vanderhorst]] ([[Federalist]]) (starting December 17)
* [[Governor of Vermont]]: [[Thomas Chittenden]] (no political party)
* [[Governor of Virginia]]: [[Henry Lee III]] ([[Federalist]]) (until December 1), [[Robert Brooke (Virginia governor)|Robert Brooke]] ([[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]) (starting December 1)

=== Lieutenant governors ===
* [[Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut]]: [[Oliver Wolcott]] ([[Federalist]]) 
* [[Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts]]: [[Samuel Adams]] ([[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]) (until month and day unknown), [[Moses Gill]] (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
* [[Lieutenant Governor of New York]]: [[Pierre Van Cortlandt]] (political party unknown) 
* [[Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island]]: [[Samuel J. Potter]] ([[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]) 
* [[Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina]]: [[James Ladson]] ([[Federalist]]) (until December 17), [[Lewis Morris]] ([[Federalist]]) (starting December 17)
* [[Lieutenant Governor of Vermont]]: [[Peter Olcott]] (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), [[Jonathan Hunt (Vermont lieutenant governor)|Jonathan Hunt]] (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
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==Events==
[[File:WhiskeyRebellion.jpg|thumb|right|October 14: Washington reviews the army assembled against the [[Whiskey Rebellion]]]]
* January 13 &ndash; The U.S. Congress enacts a law providing for, effective May 1, 1795, a United States flag of 15 stars and 15 stripes, in recognition of the recent admission of [[Vermont]] and [[Kentucky]] as the 14th and 15th states.<ref>"Flag of the United States". ''The Port Folio'' (July, 1818) p. 18.</ref> A subsequent act restores the number of stripes to 13, but provides for additional stars upon the admission of each additional state.
* February 11 &ndash; The first session of the [[United States Senate]] is open to the public.
* March 14 &ndash; [[Eli Whitney]] is granted a [[patent]] for the [[cotton gin]].
* March 27 &ndash; The [[United States Government]] authorizes the building of the first six [[United States Navy]] vessels (in 1797 the first 3 frigates, [[USS United States (1797)|USS ''United States'']], [[USS Constellation (1797)|USS ''Constellation'']] and [[USS Constitution|USS ''Constitution'']] go into service), not to be confused with October 13, 1775, which is observed as the [http://www.history.navy.mil/birthday.htm Navy's Birthday] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150101222021/http://www.history.navy.mil/birthday.htm |date=2015-01-01 }}.
* July 17 &ndash; [[Whiskey Rebellion]]: 500 armed Pennsylvanians attack and burn the home of General [[John Neville (general)|John Neville]].
* August 7 &ndash; [[Whiskey Rebellion]]: President Washington invokes the [[Militia Acts of 1792]] mobilize a federal army of 12,500 men. The force would later be put under the command of General [[Henry Lee III|"Light Horse Harry" Lee]] to be led into western Pennsylvania against the insurrection.
* September 10 &ndash; The [[University of Tennessee]] is established at [[Knoxville]].
* November &ndash; [[Whiskey Rebellion]]: The federal army quells the uprising and begins the return march to Philadelphia with prisoners.
* November 19 &ndash; The United States and Great Britain sign the [[Jay Treaty]] (coming into effect 1796), which attempts to clear up some issues left over from the [[American Revolutionary War]]<ref name="The People's Chronology">{{cite book|chapter=1794|title=The People's Chronology|editor=Everett, Jason M.|publisher=Thomson Gale|year=2006|url=http://www.enotes.com/peoples-chronology|accessdate=2007-06-05|archive-date=2007-08-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070822205439/http://www.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and secures a decade of peaceful trade between the two nations.<ref name=Harper>{{cite book|title=Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1909|editor1-first=Benson John|editor1-last=Lossing|editor2-first=Woodrow|editor2-last=Wilson|publisher=Harper & Brothers|year=1910|page=170}}</ref> Britain agrees to evacuate border forts in the [[Northwest Territory]] (roughly the area north of the [[Ohio River]] and east of the [[Mississippi]]) and thereby end British support for the Indians.
* December 8 &ndash; The [[Great New Orleans Fire (1794)]] burns over 200 buildings in the [[French Quarter]].
* December 23 &ndash; [[St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans]] is dedicated.

===Undated===
* [[Thomas Paine]]'s ''[[The Age of Reason]]'', dedicated to "Fellow Citizens of the United States of America", is published.
* [[Springfield Armory]] is founded, one of the most universally known and influential gun producers in the United States.

===Ongoing===
* [[Northwest Indian War]] (1785–1795)

==Births==
* March 16 &ndash; [[Lawrence Brainerd]], U.S. Senator from Vermont from 1854 to 1855 (died [[1870 in the United States|1870]])
* April 10
** [[Matthew C. Perry]], commodore (died [[1858 in the United States|1858]])
** [[John McCracken Robinson]], U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1830 to 1841 (died [[1843 in the United States|1843]])
* April 11 &ndash; [[Edward Everett]], politician (died [[1865 in the United States|1865]])
* May 27 &ndash; [[Cornelius Vanderbilt]], entrepreneur (died [[1877 in the United States|1877]])
* June 7 &ndash; [[Elias Kane]], U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1825 to 1835 (died [[1835 in the United States|1835]])
* July 5 &ndash; [[Sylvester Graham]], nutritionist and inventor (died [[1851 in the United States|1851]])
* August 10 &ndash; [[Jackson Morton]], U.S. Senator from Florida from 1849 to 1855 (died [[1874 in the United States|1874]])
* October 6 &ndash; [[Charles Wilkins Short]], botanist (died [[1863 in the United States|1863]])
* October 22 &ndash; [[Carlos Wilcox]], poet (died [[1827 in the United States|1827]])
* October 23 &ndash; [[Oliver H. Smith]], U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1837 to 1843 (died [[1859 in the United States|1859]])
* November 3 &ndash; [[William Cullen Bryant]], romantic poet, journalist and long-time editor of the ''[[New York Evening Post]]'' (died [[1878 in the United States|1878]])
* November 10 &ndash; [[Alexander O. Anderson]], U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1840 to 1841 (died [[1869 in the United States|1869]])
* Date unknown &ndash; [[Arthur P. Bagby]], U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1837 to 1841 (died 1858)
* Approximate date &ndash; [[Maria Gowen Brooks]], born Abigail Gowen, poet (died [[1845 in the United States|1845]])

==Deaths==
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[Abraham Clark]], American signer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]] (b. [[1725]])
* [[June 19]] &ndash; [[Richard Henry Lee]], 12th [[president of the Confederation Congress]]. signatory of the [[Continental Association]], Declaration of Independence, and [[United States Constitution]]  (b. [[1732]])
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[John Witherspoon]], American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. [[1723]])
* [[November 22]] &ndash; [[John Alsop]], American Continental Congressman (b. [[1724]])

==See also==
*[[Timeline of United States history (1790–1819)]]

==Further reading==
* Edward Thornton. The United States through English Spectacles in 1792–1794. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 9, No. 2 (July 1885).
* Ezekiel Forman. Amusements and Politics in Philadelphia, 1794. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 10, No. 2 (July 1886), pp.&nbsp;182–187.
* The Illinois Indians to Captain Abner Prior, 1794. The American Historical Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (October 1898), pp.&nbsp;107–111.
* Robert Wellford. A Diary Kept by Dr. Robert Wellford, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, during the March of the Virginia Troops to Fort Pitt (Pittsburg) to Suppress the Whiskey Insurrection in 1794. The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 1 (July 1902), pp.&nbsp;1–19.
* Medford Rum for Africa, 1792–1794. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. 44 (October, 1910 – June 1911).
* Samuel Flagg Bemis. The United States and the Abortive Armed Neutrality of 1794. The American Historical Review, Vol. 24, No. 1 (October 1918), pp.&nbsp;26–47.
* The Democratic Societies of 1793 and 1794 in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The William and Mary Quarterly, Second Series, Vol. 2, No. 4 (October 1922), pp.&nbsp;239–243.
* Arthur Preston Whitaker. Harry Innes and the Spanish Intrigue: 1794–1795. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 15, No. 2 (September 1928), pp.&nbsp;236–248.
* F. W. Howay, T. C. Elliott. Voyages of the "Jenny" to Oregon, 1792–94. Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 3 (September 1929), pp.&nbsp;197–206.
* Edgar Erskine Hume. A Proposed Alliance Between the Order of Malta and the United States, 1794: Suggestions Made to James Monroe as American Minister in Paris. The William and Mary Quarterly, Second Series, Vol. 16, No. 2 (April 1936), pp.&nbsp;222–233.
* William Miller. First Fruits of Republican Organization: Political Aspects of the Congressional Election of 1794. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 63, No. 2 (April 1939), pp.&nbsp;118–143.
* Fillmore Norfleet. Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Gosport as Seen by Moreau De Saint-Mery in March, April and May 1794. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 48, No. 2 (April 1940), pp.&nbsp;153–164.
* Eugene P. Link. Papers of the Republican Society of Portland, 1794–1796. The New England Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 2 (June 1943), pp.&nbsp;299–316.
* Harry M. Tinkcom. Presque Isle and Pennsylvania politics, 1794. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 16, No. 2 (April 1949), pp.&nbsp;96–121.
* Coolie Verner. Some Observations on the Philadelphia 1794 Editions of Jefferson's "Notes". Studies in Bibliography, Vol. 2, (1949/1950), pp.&nbsp;201–204.
* James Napier. Some Book Sales in Dumfries, Virginia, 1794–1796. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 10, No. 3 (July 1953), pp.&nbsp;441–445.
* Norman B. Wilkinson . Mr. Davy's diary 1794. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 20, No. 2 (1953), pp.&nbsp;123–141.
* Wayne's Western Campaign: The Wayne-Knox Correspondence, 1793–1794. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 78, No. 3 (July 1954), pp.&nbsp;298–341.
* Marshall Smelser. The Passage of the Naval Act of 1794. Military Affairs, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring 1958), pp.&nbsp;1–12.
* Donald H. Kent and Merle H. Deardorff. John Adlum on the Allegheny: Memoirs for the Year 1794. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 84, No. 3 (July 1960).
* John L. Earl III. Talleyrand in Philadelphia, 1794–1796. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 91, No. 3 (July 1967), pp.&nbsp;282–298.
* Edwin R. Baldridge Jr. Talleyrand's visit to Pennsylvania, 1794–1796. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 36, No. 2 (1969), pp.&nbsp;145–160.
* James R. Beasley. Emerging Republicanism and the Standing Order: The Appropriation Act Controversy in Connecticut, 1793 to 1795. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 29, No. 4 (October 1972), pp.&nbsp;587–610.
* George E. Brooks, Jr.  The Providence African Society's Sierra Leone Emigration Scheme, 1794-1795: Prologue to the African Colonization Movement. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2 (1974), pp.&nbsp;183–202.
* David O. Whitten. An Economic Inquiry into the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. Agricultural History, Vol. 49, No. 3 (July  1975), pp.&nbsp;491–504.
* William A. Hunter. John Badollet's "Journal of the Time I Spent in Stony Creeck Glades," 1793–1794. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 104, No. 2 (April 1980), pp.&nbsp;162–199.
* Leland R. Johnson. The Doyle Mission to Massac, 1794. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring 1980), pp.&nbsp;2–16.
* Roland M. Baumann. Philadelphia's Manufacturers and the Excise Taxes of 1794: The Forging of the Jeffersonian Coalition. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 106, No. 1 (January 1982), pp.&nbsp;3–39.
* Seymour S. Cohen. Two Refugee Chemists in the United States, 1794: How We See Them. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 126, No. 4 (August 1982), pp.&nbsp;301–315.
* Michael L. Kennedy. A French Jacobin Club in Charleston, South Carolina, 1792–1795. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 91, No. 1 (January 1990), pp.&nbsp;4–22.
* Jack Campisi and William A. Starna. On the Road to Canandaigua: The Treaty of 1794. American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Autumn 1995), pp.&nbsp;467–490.
* David P. Currie. The Constitution in Congress: The Third Congress, 1793–1795. The University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Winter 1996), pp.&nbsp;1–48.
* Albrecht Koschnik. The Democratic Societies of Philadelphia and the Limits of the American Public Sphere, c. 1793–1795. William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 58, No. 3 (July 2001), pp.&nbsp;615–636.
* Daniel R. Mandell. "The Indian's Pedigree" (1794): Indians, Folklore, and Race in Southern New England. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 61, No. 3 (July 2004), pp.&nbsp;521–538.

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