1795

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Year '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).

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Events of 1795

January - June

July - December

Undated

Ongoing events

Births

Deaths

Events of 1795

January - June

★ January 15 - 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 - 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 - 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 George, Prince of Wales to Caroline of Brunswick.

★ Spring - Kamehameha I of the Island of Hawaii defeats the Oahuans at the Battle of Nu'uanu, 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 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 - 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 - French government announces that the heir to the French throne has died of illness - many doubt the statement.

★ June 27

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★ British forces land of Quiberon to aid the revolt in Brittany.

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★ French troops recapture St. Lucia.

July - December

★ July 15 - The Marseillaise officially adopted as the French national anthem.

★ July 25 - Construction of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct begins.

★ August 3 - The signature of the Treaty of Greenville puts an end to the Northwest Indian War.

★ 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.

★ 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.

Undated

★ Sweden becomes the first monarchy to recognize the French Republic.

★ City of Edmonton, Alberta is founded when a Hudson's Bay Company Trading Post is established with the construction of Fort Edmonton.

★ Third Partition of Poland is made.

★ Failed harvest in Munich.

★ Large slave rebellion occurs in Curaçao.

★ Spain cedes its half of Hispaniola to France.

Ongoing events

★ French Revolution (1789-1799).

★ French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802) First Coalition.

Births

★ 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)

★ September 6 - Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers, Marshal of France (d. 1878)

★ 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 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 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

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★ Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)

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★ 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)
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