1795

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, Alberta 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.

Ongoing events

   * French Revolution (1789-1799)

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
   * August 31 - Fran¨ois-Andrˇ Danican Philidor, French composer and chess
     player

Monarchs/Presidents

   * China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October
     18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)

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