1795

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1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Ongoing events 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

\n*January 16 - French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands\n* January 20 - French troops enter Amsterdam and later proclaim Batavian Republic\n* January 23 – Dutch fleet freezes in Issel Meer\n*February 7 - The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed\n* April 7 - France adopts the metre as the unit of length\n*April 8 - The Marriage of King George IV of the United Kingdom to Caroline of Brunswick\n* Spring - Kamehameha I of the Island of Hawaii defeats the Oahuans at the Battle of Nu'uanu Valley, solidifying his control of the major islands of the archipelago\n* May 15 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France enters Milan in triumph.\n* June 8 - Dauphin, would-be-Louis XVII dies\n* June 28 - French government announces that the heir to the French throne has died of illness - many doubt the statement\n* June 27 - British forces land of Quibero to aid the revolt in Brittany\n* June 27 - French troops recapture St. Lucia\n* July 15 - The Marseillaise officially adopted as the French national anthem\n* October 5 - Royalist riots in Paris are crushed by troops under Paul Barras and newly reinstalled artillery officer Napoleon Bonaparte\n* October 27 - The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which established the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.\n* Sweden becomes the first monarchy to recognize the French Republic.\n* City of Edmonton, Alberta founded when a Hudson's Bay Company Trading Post is established with the construction of Fort Edmonton.\n* Third Partition of Poland\n* Failed harvest in Munich\n* Large slave rebellion in Curacao\n* British troops occupy Cape Town\n* Spain cedes its half of Hispaniola to France

• 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 Jose Farmer as the basis for the Wold Newton family stories. See: Wold Newton meteorite.

Ongoing events

\n* French Revolution (1789-1799)\n* French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-First Coalition \n

Births

\n* May 19 - Johns Hopkins, philanthropist (+ 1873)\n*September 16 - Saverio Mercadante, Italian opera composer\n*October 15 - King Frederick William IV of Prussia\n*October 31 - John Keats, English poet\n*November 2 - James Knox Polk, 11th president of the United States\n*December 4 - Thomas Carlyle, English essayist\n*Constantine Kanaris - Greek freedom fighter, Admiral and politician.(Another possible year of birth is 1793).

Deaths

\n*January 3 - Josiah Wedgwood, potter\n*March 21 - Giovanni Arduino, geologist\n* May 19 - Josiah Bartlett, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence\n*June 8 - Louis XVII of France\n*August 31 - François-André Danican Philidor, French composer and chess player \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n