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

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

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

Monarchs/Presidents