Events of 1795

January–June

• January 14 – 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 – O Canada! 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.

• Daniel McGinnis discovers the famed money pit on Oak Island, Nova Scotia.

Ongoing events

• French Revolution (1789–1900)

• 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)

• June 19 – James Braid, Scottish surgeon, hypnotism pioneer (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)

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)