1795
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Years: 1792 1793 1794 - 1795 - 1796 1797 1798 |
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Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1795 in topic: Lists of leaders: |
1795 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
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Events
- January 16 - French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands.
- January 20 - French troops enter Amsterdam and later proclaim Batavian Republic.
- January 21 - Dutch fleet freezed in IJsselmeer is captured by French 8e Hussard.
- February 7 - The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed.
- April 7 - France adopts the metre as the unit of length.
- April 8 - The Marriage of King George IV of the United Kingdom to Caroline of Brunswick.
- Spring - Kamehameha I of the Island of Hawaii defeats the Oahuans at the Battle of Nu'uanu Valley, solidifying his control of the major islands of the archipelago.
- May 15 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France enters Milan in triumph.
- May and June - The Battle of Richmond Hill in the colony of New South Wales between the Darug people and British Colonial Forces.
- June 8 - Dauphin, would-be-Louis XVII dies.
- June 28 - French government announces that the heir to the French throne has died of illness - many doubt the statement.
- June 27 - British forces land of Quiberon to aid the revolt in Brittany.
- June 27 - French troops recapture St. Lucia.
- July 15 - The Marseillaise officially adopted as the French national anthem.
- October 1 - Austrian Netherlands annexed to the French Republic as the "Belgian departments."
- October 5 - Royalist riots in Paris are crushed by troops under Paul Barras and newly reinstalled artillery officer Napoleon Bonaparte.
- October 27 - The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which established the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
- Sweden becomes the first monarchy to recognize the French Republic.
- City of Edmonton, Alberta founded when a Hudson's Bay Company Trading Post is established with the construction of Fort Edmonton.
- Third Partition of Poland
- Failed harvest in Munich
- Large slave rebellion in Curaçao
- Spain cedes its half of Hispaniola to France.
- December 13 A meteorite fell at Wold Newton, a hamlet in Yorkshire in England. This meteorite fall was subsequently used as a literary premise by the science fiction writer Philip José Farmer as the basis for the Wold Newton family stories. See: Wold Newton meteorite.
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Ongoing events
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Births
- February 3 - Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan revolutionary leader, general and statesman (d. 1830)
- May 19 - Johns Hopkins, American philanthropist (d. 1873)
- May 23 - Charles Barry, English architect (d. 1860)
- September 16 - Saverio Mercadante, Italian composer (d. 1870)
- October 15 - King Frederick William IV of Prussia (d. 1861)
- October 31 - John Keats, English poet (d. 1821)
- November 2 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
- November 12 - Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (d. 1856)
- December 4 - Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (d. 1881)
- December 10 - Matthias W. Baldwin, American locomotive manufacturer (d. 1866)
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Deaths
- January 3 - Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (b. 1730)
- January 26 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (b. 1732)
- March 21 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (b. 1714)
- April 12 - Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (b. 1710)
- May 19 - Josiah Bartlett, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (b. 1729)
- June 1 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (b. 1744)
- June 8 - King Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
- July 3 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)
- July 3 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)
- August 4 - Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (b. 1711)
- August 31 - François-André Danican Philidor, French composer and chess player (b. 1726)
- October 10 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
- December 23 - Henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730)