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1795

1795 (MDCCXCV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

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 Hussars.
February 7 – The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed.
April 5 – Peace of Basel signed between France and Prussia.
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–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 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.
August 22 – The 1795 French constitution is ratified by the National Convention.
September 11 – Battle of Krtsanisi.
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 – 13 Vend miaire: 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 Jos Farmer as the basis for the Wold Newton family stories (see Wold Newton meteorite).

Date unknown

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 Cura ao.
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.