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Year 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).

Events of 1795

January - June

• January 15 - 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
  • Mary Robinson writes the poem January, 1795.
  • British forces land off Quiberon to aid the revolt in Brittany.
  • French troops recapture St. Lucia.

July - December

• July 15 - The Marseillaise is officially adopted as the French national anthem.
• 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).

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.

Ongoing events

• French Revolution (1789-1799)
• French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802) First Coalition

Births

• 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)
• 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.

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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