1st » War of the Pyrenees: The Battle of Boulou ends, in which French First Republic or French forces defeat the Spanish and regain nearly all the land they lost to Spain in 1793.
7th » French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre e.g Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
8th » Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by French Revolution named revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the 'Ferme Générale', is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
Famous Birthdays on May in 1794
13th » Louis Léopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835)
17th » Anna Brownell Jameson, Irish-English author (d. 1860)
23rd » Ignaz Moscheles, Czech pianist and composer (d. 1870)
24th » William Whewell, English priest and philosopher (d. 1866)
27th » Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1877)
29th » Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874)
Famous Deaths for May 1794
8th » Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist (b. 1743)