The revolutionary year 1794 has made unsurprisingly regular appearances in these pages.

The French Revolution was going great guns, and giving the National Razor near-daily workouts here at the height of the Terror. But France wasn’t the only revolutionary game on the continent.

On these next two dates, in Europes west and east, tribunals of the people soon to be overthrown by events meted out their revolutionary justice to their enemies.

• May 8, 1794: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Father of Modern Chemistry
• May 9, 1794: Reactionary aristocrats of the Targowica Confederation

On this day..

• 1811: Arthur William Hodge, brutal slaveowner
• 1643: Philippe Giroux, former president of the Dijon Parlement
• 1916: Eamonn Ceannt, Michael Mallin, Con Colbert, and Sean Heuston
• 1679: La Bosse, Poison Affair culprit
• 1805: Not Bartlett Ambler, possible buggerer
• 1945: Pvt. George Edward Smith, on VE Day
• 1885: Mose Caton, beastly husband
• 2013: Vahid Zare pardoned while hanging
• 1979: Twenty-one by revolutionary courts of the Iranian Revolution
• Daily Double: The Iranian Revolution
• 1788: Archibald Taylor, but not Joseph Taylor
• 1951: Willie McGee
• 1794: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, father of modern chemistry
• 1948: U Saw and the assassins of Aung San
• 1887: Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov, Lenin's brother