1795

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s

Years: 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794 - 1795 - 1796 1797 1798 1799 1800

Events

January 16 - French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands
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 - The Marriage of King George IV of the United Kingdom to Caroline of Brunswick
May 15 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France enters Milan in triumph.
Sweden becomes the first monarchy to recognize the French Republic.
City of Edmonton founded when a Hudson's Bay Company Trading Post is established with the construction of Fort Edmonton.
By the Treaty of Madrid[?], Spain ceded to the United States her claims to the lands east of the Mississippi, see History of Alabama
Third Partition of Poland
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.

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

1795 in literature:
- The Monk[?] - Matthew Gregory Lewis[?]

Births

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

Deaths

January 3 - Josiah Wedgwood, potter
March 21 - Giovanni Arduino, geologist
May 19 - Josiah Bartlett, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence
June 8 - Louis XVII of France

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