1795

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

Events

• January 16 - French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands.
• January 20 - French troops enter Amsterdam and later proclaim Batavian Republic.
• 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 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 Quiberon 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 Curaçao
• 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

• February 3 - Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan revolutionary leader, general and statesman (d. 1830)
• May 19 - Johns Hopkins, American philanthropist (d. 1873)
• May 23 - Charles Barry, English architect (d. 1860)
• 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)

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 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)
• July 3 - 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 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)