1795

1795 (MDCCXCV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1795

• January 14 – The University of North Carolina (renamed The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1963) opens to students, becoming the first state university in the United States.
• January 16 – The French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands.
• January 17 – Revolution breaks out in Amsterdam.
• January 19 – The Batavian Republic is proclaimed.
• January 20 – French troops enter Amsterdam.
• January 21 – The Dutch fleet, frozen in IJsselmeer, is captured by the French 8th Hussards.
• 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 – George, Prince of Wales marries Caroline of Brunswick.
• May 1 – Battle of Nu'uanu: Kamehameha I of the Island of Hawaii defeats the Oahuans, solidifying his control of the major islands of the archipelago and officially founding the Kingdom of Hawaii.
• May 15 – First Coalition: Napoleon I of France enters Milan in triumph.
• May and June – The Battle of Richmond Hill is fought in the colony of New South Wales, between the Darug people and British colonial forces.
• June 5 – The Copenhagen fire of 1795 starts in a naval warehouse.
• June 7 – The Copenhagen fire of 1795 dies out after destroying 941 houses.
• June 8 – The Dauphin, would-be-Louis XVII, dies. Louis XVIII becomes titular king of France (he becomes actual king of France on April 6, 1814).
• June 28 – The French government announces that the heir to the French throne has died of illness (many doubt the statement).
• June 27
  • Mary Robinson writes the poem January, 1795.
  • British forces land off Quiberon to aid the revolt in Brittany.
  • French troops recapture St. Lucia.

July–December

• July 25 – Construction of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Wales begins.
• August 3 – The signature of the Treaty of Greenville puts an end to the Northwest Indian War.
• September 11 – The Persian army of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar destroys the Georgian capital Tbilisi.
• September 21 – Battle of the Diamond: Protestant forces defeat Catholic troops in Loughgall, Ireland, leading to the foundation of the Orange Order.
• October 1 – Austrian Netherlands is 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 24 – The Third Partition of Poland is made.
• October 27 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the United States.
• December 13 A meteorite falls at Wold Newton, a hamlet in Yorkshire in England. This meteorite fall is 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).

Undated

• Sweden becomes the first monarchy to recognize the French Republic.
• The Hudson's Bay Company trading post Fort Edmonton is constructed; the city of Edmonton, Alberta eventually grows from it.
• The harvest fails in Munich.
• A large slave rebellion occurs in Curaçao.
• Spain cedes its half of Hispaniola to France.
• Sans-culottes revolt in France.
• Daniel McGinnis discovers the famed money pit on Oak Island, Nova Scotia.

Ongoing events

• French Revolution (1789–1900)
• French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802) First Coalition

Births

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• January 18 – Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Dutch queen (d. 1865)
• February 3 – Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan revolutionary leader, general and statesman (d. 1830)
• February 18 – George Peabody, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1869)
• May 19 – Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1873)
• May 23 – Charles Barry, English architect (d. 1860)
• June 19 – James Braid, Scottish surgeon, hypnotism pioneer (d. 1860)
• September 6 – Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers, Marshal of France (d. 1878)
• September 16 – Saverio Mercadante, Italian composer (d. 1870)
• September 18 – Kondraty Ryleyev, Russian poet- decembrist.
• October 15 – King Frederick William IV of Prussia (d. 1861)
• October 16 – William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876)
• 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)

: See also :Category: 1795 births.

Deaths

• January 3 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (b. 1730)
• January 21 – Samuel Wallis, English navigator
• January 26 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (b. 1732)
• March 4 – John Collins, American politician (b. 1717)
• March 21 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (b. 1714)
• April 12 – Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (b. 1710)
• May 7 – Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, French revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1746)
• May 18 – Robert Rogers (soldier), founder of Rogers Rangers (b. 1731)
• 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)
  • Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)
• July 9 – Henry Seymour Conway, British general and statesman (b. 1721)
• August 4 – Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (b. 1711)
• August 31 – François-André Danican Philidor, French composer and chess player (b. 1726)
• October 8 – Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman and biographer (b. 1725)
• October 10 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
• November 15 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719)
• December 23 – Henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730)
• December 28 – Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist (b. 1747)

: See also :Category: 1795 deaths.