Antoine Lavoisier died on 8 May 1794 in place de la Concorde, aged 50. A French chemist and nobleman, Lavoisier is often called the father of modern chemistry. By careful quantitative experiments he showed that matter is conserved in chemical reactions, identified and named oxygen, and demonstrated its role in combustion and respiration, overturning the phlogiston theory. He also showed that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, and with colleagues devised a systematic chemical nomenclature. His Elementary Treatise on Chemistry of 1789 served as the first modern chemistry textbook. As a member of the Ferme générale, the private tax-collection company, he was arrested during the Reign of Terror and guillotined in 1794.
Before and after
- 1794Founding of Musée des Arts et Métiers
- 1794Publication of The Age of Reason
- 20 March 1794Founding of Tehran
- from 24 March 1794 to 16 November 1794Kościuszko Uprising
- 8 May 1794Death of Antoine Lavoisier
- from 27 July 1794 to 26 October 1795Thermidorian Reaction
- from 1 September 1794 to 1 January 1899Australian frontier wars
- from 17 November 1794 to 20 November 1794Battle of the Black Mountain
- from 19 January 1795 to 5 June 1806Batavian Republic
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