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1795 Historical Event(s)
February 7, 1795
– The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
March 28, 1795
– Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland, a northern fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
June 16, 1795
– First Battle of Groix otherwise known as “Cornwallis’ Retreat”.
September 16, 1795
– The first occupation by United Kingdom of Cape Colony, South Africa with the Battle of Hout Bay, after successive victories at the Battle of Muizenberg and Wynberg, after William V requested protection against revolutionary France’s occupation of the Netherlands.
October 1, 1795
– Belgium is conquered by France.
October 4, 1795
– Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a “Whiff of Grapeshot”, using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention).
October 26, 1795
– The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
November 2, 1795
– The French Directory succeeds the French National Convention as the government of Revolutionary France.
November 25, 1795
– Partitions of Poland: Stanislaus 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, Ontario).
Who Were Born On 1795?
January 18, 1795
– Anna Pavlovna of Russia, queen of The Netherlands (d. 1865)
March 28, 1795
– Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian (d. 1876)
May 13, 1795
– Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875)
May 23, 1795
– Charles Barry, English architect (d. 1860)
June 12, 1795
– John Marston, Served in the Union Navy during the Civil War
June 19, 1795
– James Braid, Scottish surgeon and pioneer of Hypnotherapy (d.1860)
June 24, 1795
– Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist (d. 1878)
September 6, 1795
– Frances Wright, English writer and lecturer (d. 1852)
October 26, 1795
– Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (d. 1872)
December 21, 1795
– Leopold von Ranke, German historian (d. 1886)