1794 in Great Britain:

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Sport

1794 English cricket season

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

Incumbents

• Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - William Pitt the Younger, Tory

Events

• 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]

Undated

• Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason published.^[1]
• The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane opens.^[1]

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 Thomas Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1868)

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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