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 in art
1795 in literature
1795 in music
1795 in science

List of state leaders in 1795
List of religious leaders in 1795

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Events

January 16 - French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands
January 20 - French troops enter Amsterdam and later proclaim Batavian Republic
January 23 – Dutch fleet freezes in Issel Meer
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.
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 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
British troops occupy Cape Town
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.

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Ongoing events

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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
Constantine Kanaris - Greek freedom fighter, Admiral and politician.(Another possible year of birth is 1793).

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Deaths

January 3 - Josiah Wedgwood, potter
March 21 - Giovanni Arduino, geologist
May 19 - Josiah Bartlett, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence
June 8 - Louis XVII of France
August 31 - François-André Danican Philidor, French composer and chess player


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