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1795
Years:
1792
1793
1794
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1795
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1796
1797
1798
Decades
:
1760s
1770s
1780s
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1790s
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1800s
1810s
1820s
Centuries
:
17th century
-
18th century
-
19th century
1795 was a
common year starting on Thursday
(see link for calendar).
Contents
1 Events
1.1 Ongoing events
2 Births
3 Deaths
Events
January 16
-
French
occupy
Utrecht
,
Netherlands
.
January 20
- French troops enter
Amsterdam
and later proclaim
Batavian Republic
.
January 23
- Dutch fleet freezes in
IJsselmeer
.
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 Quibero 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
Curacao
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
.
Ongoing events
French Revolution
(
1789
-
1799
)
French Revolutionary Wars
(
1792
-
1802
)
First Coalition
Births
May 19
-
Johns Hopkins
, philanthropist (+
1873
)
September 16
-
Saverio Mercadante
, Italian opera composer
October 15
- King
Frederick William IV of Prussia
October 31
-
John Keats
, English poet
November 2
-
James Knox Polk
, 11th president of the United States
December 4
-
Thomas Carlyle
, English essayist
December 10
-
Matthias W. Baldwin
,
American
steam locomotive
manufacturer (d.
1866
).
Constantine Kanaris
- Greek freedom fighter, Admiral and politician.(Another possible year of birth is
1793
).
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
)
May 19
-
Josiah Bartlett
, signatory of the American
Declaration of Independence
June 8
- King
Louis XVII of France
August 31
-
François-André Danican Philidor
,
French
composer
and
chess
player
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