1795

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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).

1 Events of 1795
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[edit] Events of 1795

[edit] 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.

[edit] July - December

July 15 - The Marseillaise is officially adopted as the French national anthem.
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.
September 11 - The Persian army of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar destroys the Georgian capital Tbilisi.
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 - 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 José Farmer as the basis for the Wold Newton family stories (see Wold Newton meteorite).

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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 Curaçao.
Spain cedes its half of Hispaniola to France.
Sans-culottes revolt in France.

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**1795 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1795 MDCCXCV
Ab urbe condita	2548
Armenian calendar	1244 ԹՎ ՌՄԽԴ
Bahá'í calendar	-49 – -48
Berber calendar	2745
Buddhist calendar	2339
Burmese calendar	1157
Byzantine calendar	7303 – 7304
Chinese calendar	甲寅年十二月十一日 (4431/4491-12-11) — to — 乙卯年十一月廿一日 (4432/4492-11-21)
Coptic calendar	1511 – 1512
Ethiopian calendar	1787 – 1788
Hebrew calendar	5555 – 5556
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1850 – 1851
- Shaka Samvat	1717 – 1718
- Kali Yuga	4896 – 4897
Holocene calendar	11795
Iranian calendar	1173 – 1174
Islamic calendar	1209 – 1210
Japanese calendar	Kansei 7 (寛政7年)
Korean calendar	4128
Thai solar calendar	2338
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