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=== July–December === * [[July 22]] – 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]] – Construction of the [[Pontcysyllte Aqueduct]] in Wales begins. * [[August 3]] – 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]] – President Washington signs the [[Jay Treaty]] with Britain on behalf of the United States.<ref name="Harper1795"/> * [[August 17]] – A large [[Curaçao Slave Revolt of 1795|slave rebellion]] occurs in [[Curaçao]], suppressed the following month. * [[August 22]] – [[French Revolution]]: The [[Constitution of the Year III]] is ratified by the [[National Convention]]. * [[August 25]] – 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]] – The [[Third Treaty of Basel]] is signed, between the [[French First Republic]] and the [[Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel]]. * [[September 5]] – 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]] – [[Battle of Krtsanisi]]: The Persian emperor [[Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar]] defeats the forces of [[Heraclius II of Georgia]]. * [[September 15]] – [[French Revolutionary Wars]] – [[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]] – [[Battle of the Diamond]]: Protestant forces defeat Catholic troops in [[Loughgall]], Ireland, leading to the foundation of the [[Orange Order]]. * [[September 28]] – The Alliance of St Petersburg is formed between Britain, Russia and Austria against France.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology345346"/> * [[October 1]] – The [[Austrian Netherlands]] is annexed to the [[French First Republic|French Republic]], as the ''Belgian departments''. * [[October 2]] – British forces capture the [[Île d'Yeu]] off the coast of [[Brittany]].<ref name=CBH234235/> * [[October 5]] – [[13 Vendémiaire]]: Royalist riots in Paris are crushed by troops under [[Paul Barras]] and newly-reinstalled artillery officer [[Napoleon|Napoleon Bonaparte]]. * [[October 20]] – 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]] – 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]] – 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]] – [[French Revolution]]: The [[French Directory]] takes power; the influence of the [[Sans-culottes]] declines. * [[December 13]] – [[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]] – Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (modern-day Toronto).
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