1795 in Great Britain
Events from the year 1795 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
- 10–12 February - Great floods on the Rivers Severn and Wye; many bridges damaged.[1][2]
- March
- Quota Acts oblige magistrates to find a specified quota of men to serve in the Royal Navy.[3]
- English Benedictine monks expelled from the Priory of St. Gregory's at Douai are permitted to proceed to England where they settle as guests of Sir Edward Smythe at Acton Burnell, Shropshire; later they will establish Downside Abbey. This year also English Benedictine nuns expelled from the Priory of Our Lady of Good Hope in Paris settle initially in Dorset; later they will form Saint Mary's Abbey, Colwich.
- April - The British Army is evacuated from Bremen, having been unsuccessful in the Flanders Campaign under Prince Frederick, Duke of York.[4]
- 8 April - Marriage of George, Prince of Wales, to Caroline of Brunswick.
- 23 April - Former Governor-General of India Warren Hastings acquitted by the House of Lords of misconduct.[5]
- 28 April - Vagrant Act provides for magistrates to enroll vagrants and smugglers into the Royal Navy as an alternative to judicial punishment.[3]
- 5 May - A tax on hair-powder under the Duty on Hair Powder Act 1795 comes into effect, helping to end the fashion for powdering hair and wigs.[6]
- 6 May - Introduction of Speenhamland system of outdoor relief for the poor.[7]
- July–September - A Newcomen atmospheric engine begins pumping at Elsecar New Colliery in the South Yorkshire Coalfield;[8] 220 years later it will be the only operable example on its original site.
- 25 August - British forces capture Trincomalee in Ceylon.[6]
- September–October - Riots over shortages of bread in many towns across Britain.[6]
- 16 September - British forces capture Cape Town from the Netherlands.[6]
- 22 September - London Missionary Society inaugurated.[6]
- 28 September - The Alliance of St Petersburg formed between Britain, Russia and Austria against France.[5]
- 2 October - British forces capture Ile d'Yeu, off the coast of Brittany.[6]
- 29 October - King George pelted with stones by an angry mob as bread riots continue.[6]
- November - Parliament passes the Treasonable Practices Act and the Seditious Meetings Act prohibiting assemblies of more than fifty people.[5]
- 13 December - A meteorite falls at the hamlet of Wold Newton, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Ongoing
Publications
Births
- 24 January - John Buonarotti Papworth, architect (died 1847)
- 5 April - Henry Havelock, general (died 1857)
- 25 May - George Meikle Kemp, architect (died 1844)
- 26 May - Thomas Noon Talfourd, judge and author (died 1854)
- 13 June - Thomas Arnold, historian and schoolmaster (died 1842)
- 11 August - Elizabeth Sackville-West, Countess De La Warr, peeress (died 1870)
- 13 September - Julius Charles Hare, theological writer (died 1855)
- 24 October - Edwin Norris, philologist, linguist and orientalist (died 1872)
- 31 October - John Keats, poet and leading figure of the Romantic movement (died 1821)
- 10 November - Walter Geikie, painter (died 1837)
- 10 December - Sir George Burns, 1st Baronet, shipping magnate (died 1890)
- 12 December - Jack Russell, dog breeder (died 1883)
- Unknown date - Zephaniah Williams, Welsh chartist (died 1874)
Deaths
References
- ↑ "Some historic examples of flood reports". Lower Severn Community Flood Information Network. Retrieved 2012-05-08.
- ↑ Eisel, John (2010). "The Great Flood of 1795". Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club 58: 189–97.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 McCranie, K. "Recruitment for the British Navy 1793-1815". In Stoker, Donald; Schneid, Frederick C.; Blanton, Harold D., ed. Conscription in the Napoleonic Era: A Revolution in Military Affairs?. p. 96.
- ↑ Heathcote, Tony (1999). The British Field Marshals 1736–1997: a biographical dictionary. London: Leo Cooper. ISBN 0-85052-696-5.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 345–346. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 234–235. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ↑ Bloy, Marjie (2002). "The Speenhamland System". The Victorian Web. Archived from the original on 7 August 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-03.
- ↑ "Elsecar Newcomen-type Engine". Engineering Timelines. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
- ↑ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
- ↑ Townsend, Joyce, ed. (2003). William Blake: the Painter at Work. London: Tate Publishing. p. 32. ISBN 1-85437-468-0.
See also
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