7th » President of the United States known as U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
8th » Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
20th » Battle of Fallen Timbers: United States American troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Lenape Delaware, Wyandot people Wyandot, Miami people Miami, Odawa people Ottawa, Ojibwe people Chippewa, and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat.
Famous Birthdays on August in 1794
11th » James B. Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869)
17th » Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (d. 1849)
Famous Deaths for August 1794
6th » Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
25th » Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-Austrian diplomat (b. 1727)