1795 in Great Britain
Events from the year 1795 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
- January – The coldest month ever in the CET series with an average of −3.1 °C or 26.4 °F.[1]
- 10 to 12 February – Great floods on the Rivers Severn and Wye result from ice breakup, snowmelt and heavy rainfall; many bridges damaged.[2][3]
- March
- April – The British Army is evacuated from Bremen, having been unsuccessful in the Flanders Campaign under Prince Frederick, Duke of York.[5]
- 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.[6]
- 28 April – Vagrant Act provides for magistrates to enroll vagrants and smugglers into the Royal Navy as an alternative to judicial punishment.[4]
- 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.[7]
- 6 May – Introduction of Speenhamland system of outdoor relief for the poor.[8]
- July to September – A Newcomen atmospheric engine begins pumping at Elsecar New Colliery in the South Yorkshire Coalfield;[9] 220 years later it will be the only operable example on its original site.
- 25 August – British forces capture Trincomalee in Ceylon.[7]
- September and October
- Riots over shortages of bread in many towns across Britain.[7]
- Only 12.9 millimetres or 0.51 inches of rain fell in September but as much as 173.2 millimetres or 6.82 inches in October, creating the largest month-to-month rise in the England and Wales Precipitation series.[10]
- 16 September – British forces capture Cape Town from the Netherlands.[7]
- 22 September – London Missionary Society inaugurated.[7]
- 28 September – The Alliance of St Petersburg formed between Britain, Russia and Austria against France.[6]
- 2 October – British forces capture Ile d'Yeu, off the coast of Brittany.[7]
- 29 October – King George pelted with stones by an angry mob as bread riots continue.[7]
- November – Parliament passes the Treasonable Practices Act and the Seditious Meetings Act prohibiting assemblies of more than fifty people.[6]
- 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)
- 4 December – Thomas Carlyle, historian and philosopher (died 1881)
- 12 December – Jack Russell, dog breeder (died 1883)
- Unknown date – Zephaniah Williams, Welsh chartist (died 1874)
Deaths
References
- ↑ Hadley Centre Ranked Central England temperature
- ↑ "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.
- 1 2 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.
- 1 2 3 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 345–346. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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.
- ↑ Hadley Center Ranked EWP
- ↑ 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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