In the year 1794, the French First Republic abolishes slavery (Feb 4), Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin (Mar 14), the U.S. Congress prohibits American ships from supplying slaves to any nation other than the United States (Mar 22), Horatio Nelson loses the sight in his right eye, in the British Siege of Calvi in Corsica (Jul 12), a great fire destroys 200 buildings in the French Quarter of New Orleans (Dec 8), coffee is forbidden by royal decree in Sweden - and all these fine people were born:
1794-0107 Eilhard Mitscherlich* chemist - Neuende, Lordship of Jever (1863/69)
1794-0115 Jakob Johann Gonsior* alderman/lawyer/philanthropist – Tallinn, Estonia (1865/71)
1794-0125 François-Vincent Raspail* chemist/ physician/politician - Carpentras, Vaucluse, French First Republic (1878/83)
1794-0127 August Lohman* judge/senator - Masku, Sweden-Finland (1863/69)
1794-0211 Charlotta Eriksson* actress - Stockholm, Sweden (1862/68)
1794-0220 William Carleton* writer/novelist - Clogher, County Tyrone, Ireland (1869/74)
1794-0221 Antonio López de Santa Anna* general/President of Mexico - Xalapa, Veracruz, Viceroyalty of New Spain (1876/82)
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1794-0305 Joseph Livesey* entrepreneur/newspaper publisher/ temperance movement campaigner - Walton-le-Dale, Lancashire, England (1884/90)
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1794-0311 Maria Elisabet Sallmén** (b Windahl) mother of Ernst Fredrik Sallmén - Loviisa, Sweden-Finland (1878/84)
1794-0317 August Appelgren* judge/ mayor - Muhos, Sweden-Finland (1846/52)
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1794-0411 Edward Everett* politician/ educator/orator - Dorchester, MA USA (1865/70)
1794-0514 Fanny Imlay* half-sister of Mary Shelley – Le Havre, France (1816/22)
1794-0517 Anna Brownell Jameson* Anglo-Irish art historian - Dublin, Ireland (1860/65)
1794-0524 William Whewell* scientist/ philosopher/historian of science - Lancaster, Lancashire, England (1866/71)
1794-0527 Cornelius “The Commodore” Vanderbilt* entrepreneur/ railroad magnate - Staten Island, NY USA (1877/82)
1794-0607 Matti Hukkanen (Matts Huckain) teacher/folk poet/judge - Rantasalmi, Sweden-Finland (1848/54)
1794-0616 María Trinidad Sánchez* heroine of the Dominican War of Independence - Santo Domingo (1846/51)
1794-0705 Sylvester Graham* nutritionist/ inventor - Suffield, CT USA (1851/57)
1794-0707 Frances Stackhouse Acton* (b Knight) botanist/ archaeologist/ artist - Elton Hall, Herefordshire, England (1881/86)
1794-0718 Feargus O’Connor* political radical/ Chartist leader - Castletown-Kinneigh, Ireland (1855/59)
1794-0815 Elias Magnus Fries* mycologist/botanist - Femsjö, Sweden (1878/83)
1794-0820 Cresswell Cresswell* (b Creswell Easterby) lawyer/ judge/politician - Bigg Market, Newcastle, England (1863/68)
1794-0830 John Rennie the Younger* engineer - Southwark, London, England (1874/80)
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1794-0908 Douglas Clavering* officer of the British Royal Navy/Arctic explorer - Edinburgh, Scotland (1827/32)
1794-0924 Jeanne Villepreux-Power* marine biologist - Juillac, France (1871/76)
1794-1028 Robert Liston* pioneering surgeon - Ecclesmachan, West Lothian, Scotland (1847/53)
1794-1103 William Cullen Bryant* poet/ journalist/long-time editor of the New York Evening Post - Cummington, MA USA (1878/83)
1794-1110 Robert Towns* merchant/colonist/ founder of Townsville, QLD Australia - Longhorsley, Northumberland, England (1873/78)
1794-1216 Carl Johan Boy* Finnish judge/newspaper editor - Tjureda, Sweden (1868/73)
1794-1227 Christian Albrecht Bluhme* lawyer/ politician/PM - Copenhagen, Denmark (1866/71)
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