List of 1795 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1795
Date | Event |
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January 19, 1795 | The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands, replacing the Dutch Republic. |
January 23, 1795 | After an extraordinary charge across the frozen Zuiderzee, the French cavalry captured 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns, in a rare occurrence of a battle between ships and cavalry. |
February 7, 1795 | The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified. |
March 11, 1795 | The Battle of Kharda is fought between the Maratha Confederacy and the Nizam of Hyderabad, resulting in Maratha victory. |
March 28, 1795 | Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a northern fief of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia. |
April 5, 1795 | Peace of Basel between France and Prussia is made. |
April 7, 1795 | The French First Republic adopts the kilogram and gram as its primary unit of mass. |
May 31, 1795 | French Revolution: The Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed. |
June 16, 1795 | French Revolutionary Wars: In what became known as Cornwallis's Retreat, a British Royal Navy squadron led by Vice Admiral William Cornwallis strongly resists a much larger French Navy force and withdraws largely intact, setting up the French Navy defeat at the Battle of Groix six days later. |
June 17, 1795 | The burghers of Swellendam expel the Dutch East India Company magistrate and declare a republic. |
July 9, 1795 | Financier James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt that had been accrued during the American Revolution. |
August 3, 1795 | Treaty of Greenville is signed, ending the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country. |
August 31, 1795 | War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee (present-day Sri Lanka) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands. |
September 15, 1795 | Britain seizes the Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa to prevent its use by the Batavian Republic. |
October 1, 1795 | More than a year after the Battle of Sprimont, the Austrian Netherlands (present-day Belgium) are officially annexed by Revolutionary France. |
October 4, 1795 | Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention. |
October 24, 1795 | Poland is completely consumed by Russia, Prussia and Austria. |
October 27, 1795 | The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S. |
November 2, 1795 | The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created. |
November 25, 1795 | Partitions of Poland: Stanisław August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia. |
December 28, 1795 | Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto). |