1795
Year 1795 (MDCCXCV ) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar ).
Events of 1795
January - June
January 15 - 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
Undated
Ongoing events
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 )
September 6 - Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers , Marshal of France (d. 1878 )
September 16 - Saverio Mercadante , Italian composer (d. 1870 )
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 )
See also Category: 1795 births .
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
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 )
See also Category: 1795 deaths .
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