1795 - Definition and Overview

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.
• 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, potter
• January 26 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
• 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