Events 1795

1 events

1.1 january–june
1.2 july–december
1.3 undated

events
january–june

january – england records coldest ever month, in cet records dating 1659.
january 14 – university of north carolina opens students @ chapel hill, becoming first state university in united states.
january 16 – french occupy utrecht, netherlands.
january 18 – batavian revolution in amsterdam: william v, prince of orange, stadtholder of dutch republic, flees country.
january 19 – batavian republic proclaimed in amsterdam.
january 20 – french troops enter amsterdam.
january 21 – capture of dutch fleet @ den helder: dutch fleet, frozen in zuiderzee, captured french 8th hussars.
february 7 – eleventh amendment united states constitution passed.
march – english benedictine monks expelled douai permitted proceed england.
april 5 – peace of basel signed, between france , prussia.
april 7 – metric system adopted in france.
april 8 – george, prince of wales, marries caroline of brunswick.
april 23 – former governor-general of india warren hastings acquitted british house of lords of misconduct.
may 1 – battle of nuʻuanu: kamehameha of island of hawaii defeats oahuans, solidifying control of major islands of archipelago , officially founding kingdom of hawaii.
may–june – battle of richmond hill fought in colony of new south wales, between darug people , british colonial forces.
june 5–7 – copenhagen fire of 1795, starting in naval warehouse, destroys 941 houses.
june 8 – dauphin of france, would-be-louis xvii, dies. louis xviii becomes titular king of france (he becomes actual king on april 6, 1814).
june 16–17 – french revolutionary wars – cornwallis s retreat: british royal navy battle squadron commanded william cornwallis fends off numerically superior french navy fleet, off coast of brittany.
june 24 – united states senate ratifies jay treaty great britain.
june 28 – french government announces heir french throne has died of illness (many doubt statement).
june 27

british forces land off quiberon, aid revolt in brittany.
french troops recapture st. lucia.
mary robinson writes poem january, 1795.



july–december

july 22 – second treaty of basel signed between french first republic , spain, ending war of pyrenees. spain cedes half of caribbean island of hispaniola france.
july 25 – construction of pontcysyllte aqueduct in wales begins.
august 3 – signing of treaty of greenville puts end northwest indian war.
august 22 – french revolution: constitution of year iii ratified national convention.
august 25 – british forces capture trincomalee, ceylon.
august 28 – third treaty of basel signed, between french first republic , landgraviate of hesse-kassel.
september 11 – battle of krtsanisi: persian emperor agha mohammad khan qajar defeats forces of heraclius ii of georgia.
september 15 – french revolutionary wars – invasion of cape colony: british forces capture cape town in dutch cape colony, use strategic facilities against french navy.
september 21 – battle of diamond: protestant forces defeat catholic troops in loughgall, ireland, leading foundation of orange order.
september 28 – alliance of st petersburg formed between britain, russia , austria against france.
october 1 – austrian netherlands annexed french republic, belgian departments.
october 2 – british forces capture Île d yeu off coast of brittany.
october 5 – 13 vendémiaire: royalist riots in paris crushed troops under paul barras, , newly reinstalled artillery officer napoleon bonaparte.
october 24 – third partition of poland made, dividing territory of commonwealth of poland between habsburg monarchy, prussia , russian empire. on november 25, stanisław august poniatowski formally abdicates last king of poland.
october 27 – united states , spain sign treaty of madrid, establishes boundaries between spanish colonies , u.s.
november 2 – french revolution: french directory takes power; influence of sans-culottes declines.
december 13 – wold newton meteorite: meteorite falls @ wold newton, hamlet in yorkshire in england. meteorite fall subsequently used literary premise science fiction writer philip josé farmer, basis wold newton family.

undated

alexander addison, american colonial political activist , commentator on jay treaty.



sweden becomes first monarchy recognize french republic.
the hudson s bay company trading post fort edmonton constructed; city of edmonton, alberta, grows it.
a large slave rebellion occurs in curaçao.
the british royal navy makes use of lemon juice mandatory, prevent scurvy.
the harvest fails in munich.
daniel mcginnis discovers supposed money pit on oak island, nova scotia.




^ decree on weights , measures . 1795. retrieved 2008-10-02. 
^ williams, hywel (2005). cassell s chronology of world history. london: weidenfeld & nicolson. pp. 345–346. isbn 0-304-35730-8. 
^ palmer, alan; veronica (1992). chronology of british history. london: century ltd. pp. 234–235. isbn 0-7126-5616-2. 
^ bown, stephen r. (2003). scurvy: how surgeon, mariner , gentleman solved greatest medical mystery of age of sail. penguin books australia. p. 222.