Events from the year 1794 in Great Britain.

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• Monarch – George III
• Prime Minister – William Pitt the Younger (Tory)^[1]
• Foreign Secretary – Lord Grenville

• 12 March – rebuilt Theatre Royal, Drury Lane opens in London.^[2]
• 23 March – British troops capture Martinique from the French.^[2]
• 19 April – Britain signs a treaty of alliance with Prussia and the Netherlands against France.^[2]
• 21 April – British troops seize Guadeloupe but the French regain control on 7 June.^[2]
• 8 May – Robert Burns' song Scots Wha Hae published in the Morning Chronicle.^[2]
• 9 May – Enlistment Act 1794 is passed, allowing Frenchmen (and other foreigners) to join the British Army.
• 14 May – Hambletonian wins his first race. He will win every subsequent race he finishes in his career.
• 1 June – Glorious First of June: A British victory over the French in the first major naval battle of the French Revolutionary Wars.^[2] The first official naval medals are awarded (selectively) to senior officers involved.
• 4 June – British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti from the French.^[2]
• 17 June
  • The Anglo-Corsican Kingdom is established.
  • Battle of Mykonos: HMS Romney captures French frigate Sibylle.
• 12 July – Horatio Nelson loses his right eye during the Siege of Calvi in Corsica.^[3]
• 23 July – Ratcliffe Fire destroys over 400 homes in London.
• 21 August – British troops capture Corsica following the bombardment by Nelson.^[2]
• 29 August – the Jesuit school Stonyhurst College, founded in France by Robert Persons relocates to England.^[4][5]
• September – Popgun plot: alleged conspiracy to assassinate King George III with a poisoned dart.^[6][7]
• 28 September – Britain allies with Russia and Austria against France.^[2]
• 15 October – Catholic seminarians forced to leave the English College, Douai, settle at Crook Hall, County Durham.
• November – 1794 Treason Trials.
• 19 November – Britain and the United States sign the Jay Treaty (coming into effect 1796), which attempts to clear up some issues left over from the American Revolutionary War^[2] and secures a decade of peaceful trade between the two nations.^[8]

• 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 Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1868)
• 30 August – John Rennie the Younger, civil engineer (died 1874)
• Unknown date – William Forster Lloyd, economist (died 1852)
• Approximate date – William Heath, caricaturist (died 1840)

• 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 May – Yemmerrawanne, Aboriginal Australian (born c. 1775)
• 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)

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