Events

• February 11 – The first session of the United States Senate
  United States Senate
  The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
  
   is open to the public.
• March 14 – Eli Whitney
  Eli Whitney
  Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South...
  
   is granted a patent
  Patent
  A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....
  
   for the cotton gin
  Cotton gin
  A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, a job formerly performed painstakingly by hand...
  
  .
• March 27 – The United States Government authorizes the building of the first six United States Navy
  United States Navy
  The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
  
   vessels (in 1797 the first 3 frigates, USS United States
  USS United States (1797)
  USS United States was a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy and the first of the six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794...
  
  , USS Constellation
  USS Constellation (1797)
  USS Constellation was a 38-gun frigate, one of the six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794. She was distinguished as the first U.S. Navy vessel to put to sea and the first U.S. Navy vessel to engage and defeat an enemy vessel...
  
   and USS Constitution
  USS Constitution
  USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Named by President George Washington after the Constitution of the United States of America, she is the world's oldest floating commissioned naval vessel...
  
   go into service), not to be confused with October 13, 1775 which is observed as the Navy's Birthday.
• July 17 – Whiskey Rebellion
  Whiskey Rebellion
  The Whiskey Rebellion, or Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States in the 1790s, during the presidency of George Washington. Farmers who sold their corn in the form of whiskey had to pay a new tax which they strongly resented...
  
  : 500 armed Pennsylvanians attack and burn the home of General John Neville.
• August 7 – Whiskey Rebellion
  Whiskey Rebellion
  The Whiskey Rebellion, or Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States in the 1790s, during the presidency of George Washington. Farmers who sold their corn in the form of whiskey had to pay a new tax which they strongly resented...
  
  : 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 "Light Horse Harry" Lee to be led into western Pennsylvania against the insurrection.
• September 10 – The University of Tennessee
  University of Tennessee
  The University of Tennessee is a public land-grant university headquartered at Knoxville, Tennessee, United States...
  
   is established at Knoxville.
• November – Whiskey Rebellion
  Whiskey Rebellion
  The Whiskey Rebellion, or Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States in the 1790s, during the presidency of George Washington. Farmers who sold their corn in the form of whiskey had to pay a new tax which they strongly resented...
  
  : The federal army quells the uprising and begins the return march to Philadelphia with prisoners.

Undated

• Britain
  Great Britain
  Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
  
   agrees to evacuate border forts in the Northwest Territory
  Northwest Territory
  The Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, more commonly known as the Northwest Territory, was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 13, 1787, until March 1, 1803, when the southeastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Ohio...
  
   (roughly the area north of the Ohio River
  Ohio River
  The Ohio River is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River. At the confluence, the Ohio is even bigger than the Mississippi and, thus, is hydrologically the main stream of the whole river system, including the Allegheny River further upstream...
  
   and east of the Mississippi
  Mississippi
  Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state derives from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, whose name comes from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi...
  
  ) and thereby end British support for the Indians.

Further reading

• Edward Thornton. The United States through English Spectacles in 1792-1794. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Jul., 1885).
• Ezekiel Forman. Amusements and Politics in Philadelphia, 1794. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Jul., 1886), pp. 182–187.
• The Illinois Indians to Captain Abner Prior, 1794. The American Historical Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Oct., 1898), pp. 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 (Jul., 1902), pp. 1–19.
• Medford Rum for Africa, 1792-1794. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. 44 (Oct., 1910 - Jun., 1911).
• Samuel Flagg Bemis. The United States and the Abortive Armed Neutrality of 1794. The American Historical Review, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Oct., 1918), pp. 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 (Oct., 1922), pp. 239–243.
• Arthur Preston Whitaker. Harry Innes and the Spanish Intrigue: 1794-1795. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Sep., 1928), pp. 236–248.
• F. W. Howay, T. C. Elliott. Voyages of the "Jenny" to Oregon, 1792-94. Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Sep., 1929), pp. 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 (Apr., 1936), pp. 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 (Apr., 1939), pp. 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 (Apr., 1940), pp. 153–164.
• Eugene P. Link. Papers of the Republican Society of Portland, 1794-1796. The New England Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Jun., 1943), pp. 299–316.
• Harry M. Tinkcom. Presque Isle and Pennsylvania politics, 1794. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 16, No. 2 (April, 1949), pp. 96–121.
• Coolie Verner. Some Observations on the Philadelphia 1794 Editions of Jefferson's "Notes". Studies in Bibliography, Vol. 2, (1949/1950), pp. 201–204.
• James Napier. Some Book Sales in Dumfries, Virginia, 1794-1796. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Jul., 1953), pp. 441–445.
• Norman B. Wilkinson . Mr. Davy's diary 1794. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 20, No. 2 (1953), pp. 123–141.
• Wayne's Western Campaign: The Wayne-Knox Correspondence, 1793-1794. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 78, No. 3 (Jul., 1954), pp. 298–341.
• Marshall Smelser. The Passage of the Naval Act of 1794. Military Affairs, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring, 1958), pp. 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 (Jul., 1960).
• John L. Earl III. Talleyrand in Philadelphia, 1794-1796. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 91, No. 3 (Jul., 1967), pp. 282–298.
• Edwin R. Baldridge Jr. Talleyrand's visit to Pennsylvania, 1794-1796. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 36, No. 2 (1969), pp. 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 (Oct., 1972), pp. 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. 183–202.
• David O. Whitten. An Economic Inquiry into the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. Agricultural History, Vol. 49, No. 3 (Jul., 1975), pp. 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 (Apr., 1980), pp. 162–199.
• Leland R. Johnson. The Doyle Mission to Massac, 1794. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1908–1984), Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring, 1980), pp. 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 (Jan., 1982), pp. 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 (Aug., 1982), pp. 301–315.
• Michael L. Kennedy. A French Jacobin Club in Charleston, South Carolina, 1792-1795. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 91, No. 1 (Jan., 1990), pp. 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. 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. 1–48.
• Albrecht Koschnik. The Democratic Societies of Philadelphia and the Limits of the American Public Sphere, circa 1793-1795. William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Jul., 2001), pp. 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 (Jul., 2004), pp. 521–538.