Today in History for Year 1795

Months in Year 1795: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 47 of 47

Jan 16th - French army under Pichegru occupies Utrecht Neth
Jan 18th - French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance
Jan 18th - governor/viceroy Willem V flees Scheveningen to England
Jan 19th - Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy
Feb 2nd - Joseph Haydns 102nd Symphony in B, premieres
Feb 5th - Zealand Neth surrenders to French general Michaud
Feb 7th - 11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, affirms power of states
Feb 7th - Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies
Feb 13th - 1st state university in US opens, University of North Carolina
Feb 17th - Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England
Feb 21st - Freedom of worship established in France under constitution
Mar 5th - Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution
Mar 5th - Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France
Mar 11th - Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols
Mar 28th - Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland, a northern fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
Mar 29th - Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna
Apr 7th - France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length.
Apr 23rd - William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason
May 16th - Hedges Treaty: Bataafse Republic becomes French vassel state
Jun 6th - Fire destroy 1/3 of Copenhagen; 18,000 injured
Jun 24th - US & Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty
Jul 1st - John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of Supreme Court
Jul 9th - James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt
Jul 15th - "Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem
Jul 25th - The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
Jul 27th - Spain & France sign peace treaty
Aug 15th - Joseph Haydn leaves England forever
Aug 17th - Slave revolt at Knip plantation, Curacao
Aug 18th - Curacao governor De Veer sends miltia to stop rebellious slaves
Aug 20th - Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England
Aug 25th - Curacao slaves opponents returns to St Christopher
Sep 5th - US-Algiers sign peace treaty
Sep 15th - Cape Colony surrenders to England
Sep 16th - British capture Capetown South Africa
Sep 19th - Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned
Sep 23rd - Conseil of the Cinq-Cents (Council of 500), forms in Paris
Oct 1st - France annexes Southern Netherlands
Oct 1st - Belgium is conquered by France.
Oct 2nd - Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao
Oct 16th - M von Böhms "Oorlogscantate" premieres
Oct 24th - 3rd partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
Oct 26th - Pinckney's Treaty between Spain & US is signed, establishing southern boundary of US & giving Americans right to send goods down Mississippi
Oct 26th - The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
Oct 27th - Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi
Nov 20th - Curacao government forbids slave work on Sunday
Nov 28th - US pays $800,000 & a frigate as tribute to Algiers & Tunis
Dec 19th - 1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 58 of 58

Jan 6th - Anselme Payen, French chemist (d. 1871)
Jan 15th - Willem de Clerq, Dutch merchant/man of letters
Jan 15th - Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (d. 1829)
Jan 18th - Anna Paulowna Romanova, monarch of Russia/daughter of czar Paul I
Feb 3rd - Antonio José de Sucre, South American independence leader (d. 1830)
Feb 5th - Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (d. 1871)
Feb 8th - Friedlieb F Runge, German chemist (Chinoline)
Feb 8th - Moritz G [Moses] Saphir, Hungarian journalist/serial writer
Feb 10th - Ary Scheffer, Dutch painter/etcher/sculptor
Feb 15th - Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general (10 day campaign)
Feb 18th - George Peabody, South Danvers Mass, merchant/philanthropist
Feb 21st - Francisco Manuel da Silva, composer
Mar 14th - Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer
Mar 23rd - Leopold Jansa, composer
Mar 28th - Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian (d. 1876)
Apr 5th - Henry Havelock, British soldier (War in Afghanistan 1838-39)
Apr 19th - Christian Gottfried Ehrenburg, German zoologist
Apr 21st - Vincenzo Pallotti, Italian saint
Apr 28th - Charles Sturt, England, explorer (Australia)
May 7th - Gerhard M Roentgen, industrialist (founder dockyard Fijenoord)
May 10th - Jacques-Nicolas-Augustin Thierry, historian
May 13th - Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883
May 13th - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875)
May 15th - Adolf B Marx, German music theorist
May 19th - Johns Hopkins, philanthropist, founded Johns Hopkins University
May 23rd - Charles Barry, architect
Jun 12th - John Marston Jr, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1885
Jun 13th - Thomas Arnold, English educator/historian (History of Rome)
Jun 24th - Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist (d. 1878)
Jul 25th - James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general (British army)
Aug 16th - Heinrich August Marschner, composer
Aug 22nd - Abraham Capadose, physician/missionary
Aug 28th - Joannes A Paredis, Belgian Bishop of Roermond
Sep 1st - James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (d. 1872)
Sep 4th - Friedrich [August] von Alberti, German geologist (Triasic Age)
Sep 6th - Frances Wright, English writer and lecturer (d. 1852)
Sep 17th - Giuseppi Saverio Rafaele Mercadante, composer
Sep 20th - Charles Heinrich Christoph Zeuner, composer
Sep 20th - Peter of Limburg Brouwer, physician/classical/author
Oct 5th - Alexander Keith, Scottish-born Canadian brewer (d. 1873)
Oct 15th - Frederik Willem IV, king of Prussia (1840-61)/Germany (1849-61)
Oct 16th - William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876)
Oct 26th - Nicolaos Mantzaros, composer
Oct 28th - Leonardus A Lightenvelt, minister of RC Worship (1848 . .53)
Romantic Poet John Keats (Oct 31st) Oct 31st - John Keats, London, England, romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn), (d. 1821)
Nov 2nd - James Knox Polk, NC, 11th American President (D) (1845-1849)
Nov 9th - Walter Geikie, Scottish painter
Nov 24th - Josif Josifovich Genishta, composer
Nov 26th - Carl P Fohr, German painter
Nov 26th - Cornelis P J Elout, Dutch military/resident of West Sumatra
Nov 28th - Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer
Dec 3rd - Rowland Hill, introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp (1840)
Dec 4th - Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian (French Revolution)
Dec 8th - Jacques Francois Gallay, composer
Dec 8th - Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (d. 1874)
Dec 21st - Leopold von Ranke, German historian (d. 1886)
Dec 22nd - Thomas Ainsworth, English/Neth industrialist (Twentse textile)
Dec 23rd - Philippe Vandermaelen, Flemish cartographer (Atlas Universel)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Oct 4th - "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" poet Samuel Coleridge (22) marries Sarah Fricker

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 35 of 35

Jan 3rd - Josiah Wedgwood, British, ceramic craftsman/woodworker, dies at 64
Jan 13th - Francois-Joseph Krafft, composer, dies at 73
Jan 19th - Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer, dies at 74
Jan 21st - Samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728)
Jan 26th - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer, dies at 62
Feb 1st - Giacomo Insanguine, composer, dies at 66
Mar 4th - John Collins, American politician (b. 1717)
Mar 5th - Josef Reicha, composer, dies at 42
Mar 21st - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (b. 1714)
Apr 12th - Rainieri de Calzabigi, Italian librettist and poet, dies at 80
Apr 12th - Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (b. 1710)
Apr 30th - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (b. 1716)
May 19th - Josiah Bartlett, US physician/judge (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 65
May 19th - James Boswell, Scottish biographer (b. 1740)
May 20th - Ignác Martinovics, Hungarian physicist/revolutionary, beheaded
Jun 1st - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist (b. 1744)
Jun 8th - Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95), dies at 10
Jul 3rd - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)
Jul 3rd - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)
Jul 6th - Georg Gottfried Petri, composer, dies at 79
Jul 9th - Henry Seymour Conway, British general and statesman (b. 1721)
Jul 31st - Jose B da Gama, Portuguese poet (East Uraguay), dies at 54
Aug 4th - Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (b. 1711)
Aug 19th - Friedrich Hartmann Graf, composer, dies at 67
Aug 31st - Francois-Andre Danican Philidor, composer, dies at 68
Oct 1st - Robert Bakewell, English cattle breeder, dies at about 70
Oct 3rd - Tula, leader Curacaose slave uprising, executed
Oct 8th - Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman (b. 1725)
Oct 10th - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
Oct 13th - William Prescott, American Revolutionary soldier, dies
Nov 6th - Jiri Antonin Benda, composer, dies at 73
Nov 15th - Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719)
Nov 19th - Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 62
Dec 23rd - Henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730)
Dec 28th - Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist (b. 1747)