Editing 1795 (section)

== Events ==
<onlyinclude>[[File:Joppen1907India1795a.jpg|thumb|250px|Map of India in 1795, map indicates the political end of the [[Mogul dynasty]] in [[India]].]]
=== January&ndash;June ===
* [[January]] &ndash; Central [[England]] records its coldest ever month, in the [[Central England temperature|CET]] records dating back to [[1659]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/research/news/articles/how-british-people-weathered-exceptionally-cold-winters|title=How British people weathered exceptionally cold winters|publisher=Liverpool University|language=English|date=4 January 2021|accessdate=12 December 2022}}</ref>
* [[January 14]] &ndash; The [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina]] opens to students at [[Chapel Hill, North Carolina|Chapel Hill]], becoming the first state university in the United States.
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[War of the First Coalition]]: [[Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition|Flanders campaign]]: The French occupy [[Utrecht]], [[Dutch Republic|Netherlands]].
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Batavian Revolution in Amsterdam]]: [[William V, Prince of Orange]], [[Stadtholder]] of the [[Dutch Republic]] (Republic of the Seven United Netherlands), flees the country.
* [[January 19]] &ndash; The [[Batavian Republic]] is proclaimed in Amsterdam, ending the [[Dutch Republic]] (Republic of the Seven United Netherlands).
* [[January 20]] &ndash; French troops enter [[Amsterdam]].
* [[January 23]] &ndash; Flanders campaign: [[Capture of the Dutch fleet at Den Helder]]: The Dutch fleet, frozen in Zuiderzee, is captured by the French 8th [[Hussar]]s.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Eschner |first1=Kat |title=The Only Time in History When Men on Horseback Captured a Fleet of Ships |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/only-time-history-when-bunch-men-horseback-captured-naval-fleet-180961824/ |website=Smithsonian Magazine |access-date=6 November 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 7]] &ndash; The [[Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution]] is passed.
* [[March]] &ndash; English [[Order of Saint Benedict|Benedictine]] monks expelled from [[Douai]] are permitted to proceed to England.
* [[March 13]]&ndash;[[March 14|14]] &ndash; War of the First Coalition [[Battle of Genoa (1795)|Battle of Genoa]]: The British and Neapolitan fleets are victorious over the French.
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] makes his public debut in Vienna performing his [[Piano Concerto No. 2 (Beethoven)|Second Piano Concerto]] under the baton of his teacher [[Antonio Salieri]].
* [[April 5]] &ndash; The [[Peace of Basel]] is signed, between France and [[Prussia]].
* [[April 7]] &ndash; The [[metric system]] is adopted in France.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://smdsi.quartier-rural.org/histoire/18germ_3.htm|title=Decree on weights and measures|year=1795|access-date=2008-10-02}}</ref>
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[George IV|George, Prince of Wales]], marries [[Caroline of Brunswick]].
* [[April 23]] 
** Former [[Governor-General of India]] [[Warren Hastings]] is acquitted by the British [[House of Lords]] of misconduct.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology345346">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/345|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/345 345–346]}}</ref>
** [[Sweden]] becomes the first monarchy to recognize the [[French First Republic|French Republic]] - Swedish ambassador introduced into the French Convention.<ref>{{cite book|title=A Collection of State Papers Relative to the War Against France Now Carrying on by Great Britain and the Several Other European Powers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J_hYAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA304|year=1795|pages=304–|last1 = Debritt|first1 = John}}</ref>
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Unification of Hawai‘i]]: [[Battle of Nuʻuanu]]: [[Kamehameha I]] of the Island of Hawaii defeats the [[Oahu]]ans, solidifying his control of the major islands of the archipelago and officially founding the [[Kingdom of Hawaii]].
* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[French Revolution]]: [[Revolutionary Tribunal]] suppressed.
* [[May]]&ndash;June &ndash; The [[Battle of Richmond Hill]] is fought in the colony of [[Colony of New South Wales|New South Wales]], between the [[Darug]] people and British colonial forces.
* [[June 3]] &ndash; The [[Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies]] are founded at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]].<ref>{{cite web |title=A Guide to Petitioning the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies |url=https://diphi.web.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2645/2022/11/Petitioning-Guide-November-2022.pdf |publisher=Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies |access-date=26 March 2023}}</ref>
* [[June 5]]&ndash;[[June 7|7]] &ndash; The [[Copenhagen Fire of 1795]], starting in a naval warehouse, destroys 941 houses.
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[Louis XVII]], [[Dauphin of France|Prince Royal]] and titular [[King of France]], dies in captivity in the [[Temple (Paris)]] and will be buried in an unmarked grave. The [[List of heirs to the French throne|heir to the French throne]], his uncle [[Louis XVIII]], succeeds him as titular king (he will become the actual king on April 6, [[1814]]). On June 28, the French republican government announces the death, due to [[mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis]] (many doubt the statement).
* [[June 16]]&ndash;[[June 17|17]] &ndash; [[War of the First Coalition]]: [[Cornwallis's Retreat]] &ndash; A British [[Royal Navy]] battle squadron commanded by [[William Cornwallis]] fends off a numerically superior [[French Navy]] fleet, off the coast of [[Brittany]].
* [[June 24]] &ndash; The United States Senate ratifies the [[Jay Treaty]] with Great Britain.
* [[June 27]] &ndash; [[War of the First Coalition]]:
** British forces land off [[Quiberon]] to aid the revolt in [[Brittany]].
** French troops recapture [[St. Lucia]].

=== July&ndash;December ===
* [[July 22]] &ndash; The [[Peace of Basel|Second Treaty of Basel]] is signed between the [[French First Republic]] and Spain, ending the [[War of the Pyrenees]]. Spain cedes its half of the Caribbean island of [[Hispaniola]] to France.
* [[July 25]] &ndash; Construction of the [[Pontcysyllte Aqueduct]] in Wales begins.
* [[August 3]] &ndash; The signing of the [[Treaty of Greenville]] puts an end to the [[Northwest Indian War]].<ref name="Harper1795">''Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909'', ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p170-171</ref>
* [[August 14]] &ndash; President Washington signs the [[Jay Treaty]] with Britain on behalf of the United States.<ref name="Harper1795"/> 
* [[August 17]] &ndash; A large [[Curaçao Slave Revolt of 1795|slave rebellion]] occurs in [[Curaçao]], suppressed the following month.
* [[August 22]] &ndash; [[French Revolution]]: The [[Constitution of the Year III]] is ratified by the [[National Convention]].
* [[August 25]] &ndash; British forces capture [[Trincomalee]], [[Sri Lanka|Ceylon]].<ref name=CBH234235>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=234–235|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[August 28]] &ndash; The [[Third Treaty of Basel]] is signed, between the [[French First Republic]] and the [[Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel]].
* [[September 5]] &ndash; The United States signs a treaty with the [[Ottoman Algeria|Dey of Algiers]], ruled by Baba Hassan, pledging the payment of $23,000 a year tribute to prevent piracy against American ships.<ref name="Harper1795"/>
* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[Battle of Krtsanisi]]: The Persian emperor [[Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar]] defeats the forces of [[Heraclius II of Georgia]].
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[French Revolutionary Wars]] &ndash; [[Invasion of the Cape Colony (1795)|Invasion of the Cape Colony]]: British forces capture [[Cape Town]] in the [[Dutch Cape Colony]], to use its strategic facilities against the French Navy.<ref name=CBH234235/>
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Battle of the Diamond]]: Protestant forces defeat Catholic troops in [[Loughgall]], Ireland, leading to the foundation of the [[Orange Order]].
* [[September 28]] &ndash; The Alliance of St Petersburg is formed between Britain, Russia and Austria against France.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology345346"/>
* [[October 1]] &ndash; The [[Austrian Netherlands]] is annexed to the [[French First Republic|French Republic]], as the ''Belgian departments''.
* [[October 2]] &ndash; British forces capture the [[Île d'Yeu]] off the coast of [[Brittany]].<ref name=CBH234235/>
* [[October 5]] &ndash; [[13 Vendémiaire]]: Royalist riots in Paris are crushed by troops under [[Paul Barras]] and newly-reinstalled artillery officer [[Napoleon|Napoleon Bonaparte]].
* [[October 20]] &ndash; The United States signs a treaty with Spain, opening commerce along the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, and establishing boundaries between U.S. territory and Spanish Florida.<ref name="Harper1795"/> 
* [[October 24]] &ndash; The [[Third Partition of Poland]] is made, dividing the territory of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Commonwealth of Poland]] between the [[Habsburg monarchy]], [[Prussia]] and the [[Russian Empire]]. On [[November 25]], [[Stanisław August Poniatowski]] formally [[abdicate]]s as last [[King of Poland]].
* [[October 27]] &ndash; The United States and Spain sign the [[Treaty of Madrid (1795)|Treaty of Madrid]], which establishes the boundaries between [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|Spanish colonies]] and the U.S.
* [[November 2]] &ndash; [[French Revolution]]: The [[French Directory]] takes power; the influence of the [[Sans-culottes]] declines.
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[Wold Cottage meteorite]]: A [[meteorite]] falls at [[Wold Newton, East Riding of Yorkshire|Wold Newton]], a hamlet in [[Yorkshire]] in England. This meteorite fall is subsequently used as a literary premise by [[science fiction]] writer [[Philip José Farmer]], as the basis for the [[Wold Newton family]].
* [[December 28]] &ndash; Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (modern-day Toronto).

=== Undated ===
* The [[Hudson's Bay Company]] trading post [[Fort Edmonton]] is constructed; the city of [[Edmonton]], Alberta, eventually grows from it.
* The British [[Royal Navy]] makes the use of [[lemon juice]] mandatory, to prevent [[scurvy]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Stephen R.|last=Bown|title=Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail|publisher=Penguin Books Australia|year=2003|page=222}}</ref>
* The harvest fails in [[Munich]].
* Daniel McGinnis discovers the supposed Money Pit on [[Oak Island]], [[Nova Scotia]]. (according to one story)
* [[Jim Beam]] is founded as Old Jake Beam Sour Mash.</onlyinclude>