9 May – Enlistment Act 1794 is passed, allowing Frenchmen (and other foreigners) to join the British Army.
14 May – Hambletonian wins his first race. He will win every subsequent race he finishes in his career.
1 June – Glorious First of June: A British victory over the French in the first major naval battle of the French Revolutionary Wars.[2] The first official naval medals are awarded (selectively) to senior officers involved.
19 November – Britain and the United States sign the Jay Treaty (coming into effect 1796), which attempts to clear up some issues left over from the American Revolutionary War[2] and secures a decade of peaceful trade between the two nations.[8]
The music of the WelshmarchMen of Harlech is first published (without words) as Gorhoffedd Gwŷr Harlech—March of the Men of Harlech in the second edition of The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards.[10]
^Emsley, Clive (2000). "The Pop-Gun Plot, 1794". In Davis, Michael T. (ed.). Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775–1848: essays in honour of Malcolm I. Thomis. Basingstoke: Macmillan. pp. 56–68. ISBN0-333-74309-1.