1795

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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).

1 Events of 1795
2 Births
3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1795

[edit] 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 - 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 - 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 George, Prince of Wales to Caroline of Brunswick.
May 1 - Kamehameha I of the Island of Hawaii defeats the Oahuans at the Battle of Nu'uanu, solidifying his control of the major islands of the archipelago and the official founding of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
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 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 - 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 - 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 of Quiberon to aid the revolt in Brittany.
- French troops recapture St. Lucia.

[edit] July - December

July 15 - The Marseillaise officially adopted as the French national anthem.
July 25 - Construction of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct begins.
August 3 - The signature of the Treaty of Greenville puts an end to the Northwest Indian War.
September 21 - Battle of the Diamond in Loughgall, Ireland. Orange Order founded.
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 24 - Third Partition of Poland is made.
October 27 - The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which established the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
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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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 will eventually grow from it.
Failed harvest in Munich.
Large slave rebellion occurs in Curaçao.
Spain cedes its half of Hispaniola to France.
Sans-culottes revolt in France.

[edit] Ongoing events

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

[edit] Births

**1795 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1795 MDCCXCV
Ab urbe condita	2548
Armenian calendar	1244 ԹՎ ՌՄԽԴ
Bahá'í calendar	-49 – -48
Berber calendar	2745
Buddhist calendar	2339
Burmese calendar	1157
Chinese calendar	4431/4491-12-11 (甲寅年十二月十一日) — to — 4432/4492-11-21 (乙卯年十一月廿一日)
Coptic calendar	1511 – 1512
Ethiopian calendar	1787 – 1788
Hebrew calendar	5555 – 5556
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1850 – 1851
- Shaka Samvat	1717 – 1718
- Kali Yuga	4896 – 4897
Holocene calendar	11795
Iranian calendar	1173 – 1174
Islamic calendar	1209 – 1210
Japanese calendar	Kansei 7 (寛政7年)
Korean calendar	4128
Thai solar calendar	2338
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