Today in History for March 1794

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Historical Events

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3rd - 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D
3rd - Richard Allen founded AME Church
11th - Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens
14th - Eli Whitney patents cotton gin
22nd - Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries
23rd - 1st US patent (Joseph G Pierson for a riveting machine)
23rd - Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine
23rd - Lt-general Tadeusz Kosciuszko returns to Poland
27th - US Navy forms
27th - The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
27th - Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
28th - Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August)
28th - Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau.

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 5 of 5

5th - Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer
5th - Robert Cooper Grier, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1870)
16th - Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (d. 1881)
26th - Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (d. 1872)
31st - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician (d. 1852)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 2 of 2

4th - Henri D count de Larochejacquelin, Fr Royalist Army leader, dies at 21
29th - Marie-J-A-N C Condorcet, mathematician (Theory of Comets), dies at 50


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