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=== April–June === * [[April 4]] – [[Battle of Racławice]]: Polish supporters of the [[Kościuszko Uprising]] defeat forces of the [[Russian Empire]]. * [[April 5]] – [[Reign of Terror]]: [[Georges Danton]] and [[Camille Desmoulins]] are executed. * [[April 17]]–[[April 19|19]] – [[Kościuszko Uprising]] – [[Warsaw Uprising (1794)|Warsaw Uprising]]: The Polish people overthrow the [[Russian Empire|Russian]] garrison in [[Warsaw]]. * [[April 19]] – Britain, [[Prussia]] and the [[Dutch Republic|Netherlands]] sign a treaty of alliance against France.<ref name="The People's Chronology1"/> * [[April 28]] – [[Sa die de sa Sardigna|Sardinian Vespers]]: The people of [[Cagliari]] in [[Sardinia]] oust the viceroy and his Piedmontese functionaries. * [[April 29]]–[[May 1]] – [[Battle of Boulou]]: The French defeat the Spanish and Portuguese forces. * [[May 7]] – [[Robespierre]] establishes the [[Cult of the Supreme Being]] as the new [[state religion]] of the [[French First Republic]]. * [[May 8]] – [[Reign of Terror]]: chemist [[Antoine Lavoisier]] is tried, convicted and executed in Paris with 27 co-defendants also associated with the former ''[[ferme générale]]''. * [[May 18]] – [[Battle of Tourcoing]]: French troops defeat British forces. * [[May 21]] – the [[French Revolution]]ary Government decides that the [[Reign of Terror|Terror]] would be centralised, with almost all the [[revolutionary Tribunal|tribunals]] in the provinces closed and all the trials held in Paris.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=9lWNCwAAQBAJ&dq=government+decided+that+the+Terror+would+be+centralised&pg=PR14-IA87 The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny by Ian Davidson, p. xiv]</ref> * [[May 28]]–[[June 1]] – The [[Glorious First of June]] (Battle of Ushant): The British win a crushing tactical victory over the French fleet, but the merchant convoy escorted by the French fleet arrives safely in France. * [[May 30]]–[[June 4]] – [[Battle of Port-Républicain]]: British troops capture [[Port-au-Prince]] in [[Haiti]] from the French.<ref name="The People's Chronology1"/> * [[June 17]] ** The [[Anglo-Corsican Kingdom]] is established. ** [[Battle of Mykonos]]: The British [[Royal Navy]] captures {{ship|French frigate|Sibylle|1791|6}}. * [[June 24]] – [[Bowdoin College]] is founded in [[Brunswick, Maine]]. * [[June 26]] – [[Battle of Fleurus (1794)|Battle of Fleurus]]: French forces defeat the Austrians and their allies, leading to permanent loss of the [[Austrian Netherlands]] and destruction of the [[Dutch Republic]]. French use of an [[observation balloon]] marks the first participation of an aircraft in battle. * June–July – [[Mount Vesuvius]] erupts in Italy; the town of [[Torre del Greco]] is destroyed.<ref>{{cite book|author-link=David Constantine|first=David|last=Constantine|title=Fields of Fire|location=London|publisher=Phoenix Press|year=2002|isbn=1842125818|pages=194–5}}</ref>
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