Important Historical Events of the year 1795, Year 1795 in History

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List of 1795 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1795

What happened in the year 1795?

Date	Event
January 19, 1795	The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands, replacing the Dutch Republic.
January 23, 1795	After an extraordinary charge across the frozen Zuiderzee, the French cavalry captured 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns, in a rare occurrence of a battle between ships and cavalry.
February 7, 1795	The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
March 11, 1795	The Battle of Kharda is fought between the Maratha Confederacy and the Nizam of Hyderabad, resulting in Maratha victory.
March 28, 1795	Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a northern fief of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
April 5, 1795	Peace of Basel between France and Prussia is made.
April 7, 1795	The French First Republic adopts the kilogram and gram as its primary unit of mass.
May 31, 1795	French Revolution: The Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed.
June 16, 1795	French Revolutionary Wars: In what became known as Cornwallis's Retreat, a British Royal Navy squadron led by Vice Admiral William Cornwallis strongly resists a much larger French Navy force and withdraws largely intact, setting up the French Navy defeat at the Battle of Groix six days later.
June 17, 1795	The burghers of Swellendam expel the Dutch East India Company magistrate and declare a republic.
July 9, 1795	Financier James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt that had been accrued during the American Revolution.
August 3, 1795	Treaty of Greenville is signed, ending the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country.
August 31, 1795	War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee (present-day Sri Lanka) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.
September 15, 1795	Britain seizes the Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa to prevent its use by the Batavian Republic.
October 1, 1795	More than a year after the Battle of Sprimont, the Austrian Netherlands (present-day Belgium) are officially annexed by Revolutionary France.
October 4, 1795	Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
October 24, 1795	Poland is completely consumed by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
October 27, 1795	The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
November 2, 1795	The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
November 25, 1795	Partitions of Poland: Stanisław 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).