1795
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1760s 1770s 1780s – 1790s – 1800s 1810s 1820s |
| Years: | 1792 1793 1794 – 1795 – 1796 1797 1798 |
| 1795 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science |
| Countries: Australia – Canada – Great Britain – United States |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
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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[edit] Events of 1795
[edit] January–June
- 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
[edit] 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).
[edit] 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.
[edit] Ongoing events
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1795 MDCCXCV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2548 |
| Armenian calendar | 1244 ԹՎ ՌՄԽԴ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -49 – -48 |
| Bengali calendar | 1202 |
| Berber calendar | 2745 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2339 |
| Burmese calendar | 1157 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7303 – 7304 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲寅年十二月十一日 (4431/4491-12-11) — to —
乙卯年十一月廿一日(4432/4492-11-21) |
| Coptic calendar | 1511 – 1512 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1787 – 1788 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5555 – 5556 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1850 – 1851 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1717 – 1718 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4896 – 4897 |
| Holocene calendar | 11795 |
| Iranian calendar | 1173 – 1174 |
| Islamic calendar | 1209 – 1210 |
| Japanese calendar | Kansei 7 (寛政7年) |
| Korean calendar | 4128 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2338 |
- 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.
[edit] 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)
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