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1794
 
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Robespierre and St Just succeed in sending Danton and his faction to the guillotine in April        
1794
 
   
French chemist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier is guillotined for having been involved with tax collection in the ancien régime      
1794
 
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The treaty agreed by US envoy John Jay restores some degree of friendship between the USA and Britain      
1794
 
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Goethe and Schiller become friends, and together create the movement known as Weimar classicism        
1794
 
    
In his Science of Knowledge Johann Gottlieb Fichte contrasts the I, or Ego, and its opposing non-I, or non-Ego       
1794
 
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Robespierre and his faction go to the guillotine in July, in the final bloodletting of the Terror       
1794
 
   
George Washington uses military force to assert government authority on rebels in Pennsylvania refusing to pay a federal tax on whisky      
1794
 
   
Virtuoso violinist Nicolo Paganini gives his first public performances, in churches in his native Genoa      
1794
 
     
William Blake's volume Songs of Innocence and Experience includes his poem 'Tyger! Tyger! burning bright'        
William Blake, by Thomas Phillips, 1807
National Portrait Gallery, London

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c. 1795
 
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Dutch Boers begin calling themselves Afrikaners, to emphasize that Africa is their native land