1795

Years: 1792 1793 1794 - 1795 - 1796 1797 1798
Decades: 1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

1795 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).

Contents

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

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