Incumbents Monarch – Catherine II
Events
Kościuszko Uprising April 4 - Battle of Racławice April 17–19 - Warsaw Uprising (1794) April 22 - Vilnius Uprising (1794) June 6 - Battle of Szczekociny June 8 - Battle of Chełm July 13 - September 6 - Siege of Warsaw (1794) September 19 - Battle of Brest (1794) October 10 - Battle of Maciejowice November 4 - Battle of Praga Kharitonov Palace commissioned Korenovsk founded Kushchyovskaya founded Odessa founded Ust-Labinsk founded Vilna Governorate-General created
Births Abbasgulu Bakikhanov (1794-1847) - Azerbaijani writer, historian, poet, and linguist; Russian military officer Pyotr Chaadayev (1794-1856) - philosopher Nikolai Borisovich Galitzin (1794-1866) - nobleman who commissioned three string quartets from Beethoven Gavriil Antonovich Katakazi (1794-1867) - diplomat and government official Nikolay Muravyov-Karsky (1794-1866) - general Ivan Kupreyanov (1794-1857) - naval officer and head of the Russian-American Company 1835-1840 Alexander Petrov (1794-1867) - chess player and writer August Georg Wilhelm Pezold (1794-1859) - Estonian painter and lithographer Ivan Mikhailovich Simonov (1794-1855) - astronomer and geodesist Sergei Grigoryevich Stroganov (1794-1882) - nobleman, statesman, art historian, archaeologist, philanthropist Nikolai Sukhozanet (1794-1871) - general and statesman Artemy Tereshchenko (1794-1873) - businessman Konstantin Thon (1794-1881) - architect Alexander Ulybyshev (1794-1858) - diplomat and musicologist, biographer of Mozart Ivan Vitali (1794-1855) - sculptor Matvei Wielhorski (1794-1866) - Polish-Russian cellist
Deaths Gregory Skovoroda (1722-1794) - philosopher, poet, composer Ivan Yelagin (1725-1794) - historian, freemason, secretary to Catherine the Great Vasily Zuyev (1754-1794) - naturalist and traveler
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