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January 18 :Batavian Revolution in Amsterdam 1795 (MDCCXCV ) was acommon year starting on Thursday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Monday of theJulian calendar , the 1795th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini (AD) designations, the 795th year of the2nd millennium , the 95th year of the18th century , and the 6th year of the1790s decade. As of the start of 1795, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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Map of India in 1795, map indicates the political end of theMogul dynasty inIndia . January – CentralEngland records its coldest ever month, in theCET records dating back to1659 .[ 1] January 14 – TheUniversity of North Carolina opens to students atChapel Hill , becoming the first state university in the United States.January 16 –War of the First Coalition :Flanders campaign : The French occupyUtrecht ,Netherlands .January 18 –Batavian Revolution in Amsterdam :William V, Prince of Orange ,Stadtholder of theDutch Republic (Republic of the Seven United Netherlands), flees the country.January 19 – TheBatavian Republic is proclaimed in Amsterdam, ending theDutch Republic (Republic of the Seven United Netherlands).January 20 – French troops enterAmsterdam .January 23 – Flanders campaign:Capture of the Dutch fleet at Den Helder : The Dutch fleet, frozen in Zuiderzee, is captured by the French 8thHussars .[ 2] February 7 – TheEleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed.March – EnglishBenedictine monks expelled fromDouai are permitted to proceed to England.March 13 –14 – War of the First CoalitionBattle of Genoa : The British and Neapolitan fleets are victorious over the French.March 29 –Ludwig van Beethoven makes his public debut in Vienna performing hisSecond Piano Concerto under the baton of his teacherAntonio Salieri .April 5 – ThePeace of Basel is signed, between France andPrussia .April 7 – Themetric system is adopted in France.[ 3] April 8 –George, Prince of Wales , marriesCaroline of Brunswick .April 23 May 1 –Unification of Hawai‘i :Battle of Nuʻuanu :Kamehameha I of the Island of Hawaii defeats theOahuans , solidifying his control of the major islands of the archipelago and officially founding theKingdom of Hawaii .May 31 –French Revolution :Revolutionary Tribunal suppressed.May –June – TheBattle of Richmond Hill is fought in the colony ofNew South Wales , between theDarug people and British colonial forces.June 3 – TheDialectic and Philanthropic Societies are founded at theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .[ 6] June 5 –7 – TheCopenhagen Fire of 1795 , starting in a naval warehouse, destroys 941 houses.June 8 –Louis XVII ,Prince Royal and titularKing of France , dies in captivity in theTemple (Paris) and will be buried in an unmarked grave. Theheir to the French throne , his uncleLouis XVIII , succeeds him as titular king (he will become the actual king on April 6,1814 ). On June 28, the French republican government announces the death, due tomycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis (many doubt the statement).June 16 –17 –War of the First Coalition :Cornwallis's Retreat – A BritishRoyal Navy battle squadron commanded byWilliam Cornwallis fends off a numerically superiorFrench Navy fleet, off the coast ofBrittany .June 24 – The United States Senate ratifies theJay Treaty with Great Britain.June 27 –War of the First Coalition :July 22 – TheSecond Treaty of Basel is signed between theFrench First Republic and Spain, ending theWar of the Pyrenees . Spain cedes its half of the Caribbean island ofHispaniola to France.July 25 – Construction of thePontcysyllte Aqueduct in Wales begins.August 3 – The signing of theTreaty of Greenville puts an end to theNorthwest Indian War .[ 7] August 14 – President Washington signs theJay Treaty with Britain on behalf of the United States.[ 7] August 17 – A largeslave rebellion occurs inCuraçao , suppressed the following month.August 22 –French Revolution : TheConstitution of the Year III is ratified by theNational Convention .August 25 – British forces captureTrincomalee ,Ceylon .[ 8] August 28 – TheThird Treaty of Basel is signed, between theFrench First Republic and theLandgraviate of Hesse-Kassel .September 5 – The United States signs a treaty with theDey of Algiers , ruled by Baba Hassan, pledging the payment of $23,000 a year tribute to prevent piracy against American ships.[ 7] September 11 –Battle of Krtsanisi : The Persian emperorAgha Mohammad Khan Qajar defeats the forces ofHeraclius II of Georgia .September 15 –French Revolutionary Wars –Invasion of the Cape Colony : British forces captureCape Town in theDutch Cape Colony , to use its strategic facilities against the French Navy.[ 8] September 21 –Battle of the Diamond : Protestant forces defeat Catholic troops inLoughgall , Ireland, leading to the foundation of theOrange Order .September 28 – The Alliance of St Petersburg is formed between Britain, Russia and Austria against France.[ 4] October 1 – TheAustrian Netherlands is annexed to theFrench Republic , as theBelgian departments .October 2 – British forces capture theÎle d'Yeu off the coast ofBrittany .[ 8] October 5 –13 Vendémiaire : Royalist riots in Paris are crushed by troops underPaul Barras and newly-reinstalled artillery officerNapoleon Bonaparte .October 20 – The United States signs a treaty with Spain, opening commerce along the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, and establishing boundaries between U.S. territory and Spanish Florida.[ 7] October 24 – TheThird Partition of Poland is made, dividing the territory of theCommonwealth of Poland between theHabsburg monarchy ,Prussia and theRussian Empire . OnNovember 25 ,Stanisław August Poniatowski formallyabdicates as lastKing of Poland .October 27 – The United States and Spain sign theTreaty of Madrid , which establishes the boundaries betweenSpanish colonies and the U.S.November 2 –French Revolution : TheFrench Directory takes power; the influence of theSans-culottes declines.December 13 –Wold Cottage meteorite : Ameteorite falls atWold Newton , a hamlet inYorkshire in England. This meteorite fall is subsequently used as a literary premise byscience fiction writerPhilip José Farmer , as the basis for theWold Newton family .December 28 – Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (modern-day Toronto).Anna Pavlovna of Russia Frederick William IV of Prussia James K. Polk January 6 –Anselme Payen , French chemist (d.1878 )January 18 –Anna Pavlovna of Russia , queen consort of the Netherlands (d.1865 )January 26 –Policarpa Salavarrieta , Colombian spy, revolutionary heroine working for the independence of Colombia (d.1817 )February 3 –Antonio José de Sucre ,Venezuelan revolutionary leader, general and statesman (d.1830 )February 4 –Jakob von Hartmann , Bavarian general (d.1873 )February 18 –George Peabody , American businessman and "father of modern philanthropy" (d.1869 )February 16 –Sarah Ann Gill , Barbadian national heroine (d.1866 )March 12 –William Lyon Mackenzie , Scottish-born Canadian journalist, 1st Mayor of Toronto (d.1861 )March 14 –Robert Lucas Pearsall , English-born composer, sets "In dulce jubilo" (d.1856 )May 4 –Annestine Beyer , Danish reform pedagogue (d.1884 )May 19 –Johns Hopkins , American businessman and philanthropist (d.1873 )May 23 –Charles Barry , English architect (d.1860 )[ 10] June 11 –Sara Torsslow , Swedish actor (d.1859 )June 13 –Thomas Arnold , English school reformer (d.1842 )June 19 –James Braid , Scottish surgeon, hypnotism pioneer (d.1860 )June 21 –José María Pinedo , Argentinian naval commander (d.1885 )June 24 –Ernst Heinrich Weber , German physician, psychologist (d.1878 )July 5 –Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe , German pharmacist, botanist and bryologist (d.1880 )July 7 –Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria , Bavarian field marshal (d.1875 )August 25 –Luis José de Orbegoso , Peruvian general and politician, 11th and 12thPresident of Peru (d.1847 )August 27 –Giorgio Mitrovich , Maltese politician (d.1885 )[ 11] September 1 –James Gordon Bennett , American newspaper publisher (d.1872 )September 6 –Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers ,Marshal of France (d.1878 )September 7 –John William Polidori , English writer and physician (d.1821 )September 16 –Saverio Mercadante , Italian composer (d.1870 )September 18 –Kondraty Ryleyev , Russian poet, Decembrist (d.1826 )October 13 –James McDowell , American politician (d.1851 )October 15 – KingFrederick William IV of Prussia (d.1861 )October 16 –William Buell Sprague , American clergyman, author (d.1876 )October 26 –Nikolaos Mantzaros , Greek composer (d.1872 )October 31 –John Keats , English poet (d.1821 )[ 12] November 2 –James K. Polk , 11thPresident of the United States (d.1849 )November 12 –Thaddeus William Harris , American naturalist (d.1856 )December 2 –Guillermo (William) Miller , English-born military leader in Peru (d.1861 )December 3 –Rowland Hill , English teacher, inventor and social reformer (d.1879 )December 4 –Thomas Carlyle , Scottish-born writer, historian (d.1881 )December 10 –Matthias W. Baldwin , American locomotive manufacturer (d.1866 )December 21 –Leopold von Ranke , German historian (d.1886 )date unknown –Chief Oshkosh , Menominee chief (d.1858 )Josiah Wedgwood Carl Michael Bellman January 3 –Josiah Wedgwood , English potter, entrepreneur (b.1730 )January 5 January 10 –David Blackburn , British Royal Navy officer (b.1753 )January 19 –Thomas Balguy , English churchman (b.1716 )January 21 –Samuel Wallis , English navigator (b.1728 )January 22 –Richard Clinton , officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution (b.1741 )January 23 –John Sullivan , American general in theAmerican Revolutionary War , delegate in theContinental Congress (b.1740 )January 25 –Morgan Edwards , Welsh-born clergyman (b.1722 )January 26 –Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach , German harpsichordist, composer (b.1732 )February 3 –Richard Edwards , British naval officer and colonial governor of Newfoundland (b. c.1715 )February 7 –Antoine Polier , Swiss adventurer (b.1741 )February 11 –Carl Michael Bellman , Swedish poet (b.1740 )February 14 –Samuel Cook Silliman , member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk (b.1741 )February 27 March 4 –John Collins , 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (b.1717 )March 5 –Josef Reicha , Czech cellist (b.1752 )March 9 –John Armstrong, Sr. , American civil engineer and major general during the Revolutionary War (b.1717 )March 15 –Louisa Catharina Harkort , German ironmaster (b.1718 )March 18 –Jonathan Buck , founder of Bucksport, Maine (b.1719 )March 21 "Louis XVII " of France April 1 –Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken (b.1746 )April 6 –George Collier , British Royal Navy officer served during the Seven Years' War (b.1738 )April 12 –Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée , Bavarian general (b.1710 )April 30 –Jean-Jacques Barthélemy , French writer and numismatist (b.1716 )May 2 –Increase Moseley , American politician (b.1712 )May 6 –Pieter Boddaert , Dutch physician and naturalist (b.1730 )May 7 –Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville , French revolutionary leader (executed) (b.1746 )May 11 –Joachim Edler von Popper , Austrian banker (b.1722 )May 12 –Ezra Stiles , American academic, educator and author (b.1727 )May 17 –Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle , British Army general (b.1752 )May 18 –Robert Rogers , British Army officer and American colonial frontiersman (b.1731 )May 19 May 20 May 27 –Thomas-Laurent Bédard , Canadian priest (b.1747 )June 1 –Pierre-Joseph Desault , French anatomist and surgeon (b.1744 )June 8 – Titular KingLouis XVII of France (b.1785 )June 13 –Stephen Popham , British politician and solicitor (b.1745 )June 17 –Gilbert Romme , French politician and mathematician (b.1750 )June 18 –Marie Marguerite Bihéron , French anatomist (b.1719 )[ 13] June 23 –James Craig , Scottish architect (b.1739 )June 24 –William Smellie , Scottish printer and encyclopedist (b.1740 )Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria July 3 July 9 –Henry Seymour Conway , British general and statesman (b.1721 )July 10 –Omar Ali Saifuddin I , Sultan of Brunei since 1740 (b.1711 )July 12 –Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria (b.1772 )July 27 –Louis Grégoire Deschamps Destournelles , French politician (b.1744 )July 28 –Zebulon Butler , American soldier and politician (b.1731 )July 31 August 4 –Timothy Ruggles , American-born Tory politician (b.1711 )August 5 –William Fleming , Scottish-born physician and 3rd Governor of Virginia (b.1729 )August 14 August 19 –Friedrich Hartmann Graf , German flautist and composer (b.1727 )August 20 –William Jones , Welsh radical and antiquary (b.1726 )August 23 –William Bradford , American lawyer and judge (b.1755 )August 26 –Alessandro Cagliostro , Italian Freemason (b.1743 )August 31 –François-André Danican Philidor , French composer and chess player (b.1726 )September 3 –Benjamin Beddome , English Baptist minister and hymnist (b.1717 )September 22 –Sayat-Nova , Armenian musician and poet (b.1712 )September 30 –George Butt , English chaplain and poet (b.1741 )Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah Madhavrao II Antonio Zucchi October 8 –Andrew Kippis , English nonconformist clergyman and biographer (b.1725 )[ 14] October 10 October 13 October 27 –Madhavrao II , Peshwa of the Maratha Empire in India (b.1774 )November 3 –Sir John Hotham, 9th Baronet , English clergyman (b.1734 )November 6 –Jiří Antonín Benda , Bohemian composer (b.1722 )November 11 –George Dixon , British Royal Navy officer (b.1748 )November 15 –Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo , French painter (b.1719 )November 17 –Samuel Bishop , English poet (b.1731 )November 18 December 4 –Prince Eugene of Saxe-Hildburghausen (b.1730 )December 10 –John Johnstone , Scottish nabob with the East India Company (b.1734 )December 23 –Henry Clinton , British general (b.1730 )December 26 –Antonio Zucchi , Italian painter (b.1726 )December 28 –Eugenio Espejo , Ecuadorian scientist (b.1747 )^ "How British people weathered exceptionally cold winters" . Liverpool University. January 4, 2021. RetrievedDecember 12, 2022 .^ Eschner, Kat."The Only Time in History When Men on Horseback Captured a Fleet of Ships" .Smithsonian Magazine . RetrievedNovember 6, 2021 . ^ "Decree on weights and measures" . 1795. RetrievedOctober 2, 2008 .^a b Williams, Hywel (2005).Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 345–346 .ISBN 0-304-35730-8 . ^ Debritt, John (1795).A Collection of State Papers Relative to the War Against France Now Carrying on by Great Britain and the Several Other European Powers . pp. 304–. ^ "A Guide to Petitioning the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies" (PDF) . Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies. RetrievedMarch 26, 2023 .^a b c d Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909 , ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p170-171^a b c Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 234– 235.ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 . ^ Bown, Stephen R. (2003).Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail . Penguin Books Australia. p. 222. ^ "Sir Charles Barry | British architect" .Encyclopedia Britannica . RetrievedNovember 6, 2021 .^ Mangion, Fabian (March 8, 2015)."Recalling a brave, sincere patriot forgotten by Malta" .Times of Malta .Archived from the original on December 25, 2018. RetrievedDecember 24, 2018 . ^ "BBC - History - Historic Figures: John Keats (1795-1821)" .bbc.co.uk . RetrievedJanuary 3, 2017 .^ According to Georges Boulinier "Une femme anatomiste au siècle des Lumières: Marie Marguerite Biheron (1719-1795)".Histoire des Sciences médicales - vol. XXXV,4,411-423 (2001), p. 413, referring to a file (shelf mark V3E/D 118) retrievable online from the Archives de Paris, she died in Paris on 30 prairial An III, i.e., 18 June 1795. ^ Cunningham, George Godfrey (1837).Lives of Eminent and Illustrious Englishmen: From Alfred the Great to the Latest Times, on an Original Plan . A. Fullarton. p. 57.