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1795
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by
Gorgonzola
Mon Nov 27 2000 at 2:57:54
Born in 1795:
English poet
John Keats
.
Scottish
historian
Thomas Carlyle
.
American
botanist
Silas McDowell
.
English
architect
Sir
Charles Barry
.
James Knox Polk
, eleventh
President of the United States
.
Pioneer
Zionist
Rabbi
Zevi Hirsch Kalischer
.
Italian
composer
and
librettist
Maria Teresa d'Agnesi
.
American
abolitionist
and early
feminist
Fanny Wright
.
German composer
Heinrich Marschner
.
German physiologist
Ernst Heinrich Weber
.
German historian
Leopold von Ranke
.
English
explorer
of
Australia
Charles Sturt
, in
India
.
French
mathematician
Gabriel Lamé
.
Died in 1795:
English
stalker
and
biographer
of
Samuel Johnson
,
James Boswell
.
American
Revolutionary war
general
Francis Marion
, "The Swamp Fox".
English potter
Josiah Wedgwood
.
(June 8)
Louis XVII
, titular king of France, 9 years old, from the harsh conditions in the
Temple Prison
where he was held.
Events of 1795:
To avoid another uprising in
Poland
,
Prussia
,
Russia
, and
Austria
each take another slice of that country. This would be for the final time, as this
third partition
divided up Poland
completely among the three powers; Poland ceased to exist as a sovereign state.
King
Carlos IV
of
Spain
grants
Jose Cuervo
the first concession to commercially produce
Tequila
.
France continues to fight off (and advance against) just about every other European power.
Great Britain
builds a naval base on
Bermuda
.
(February) The
Treaty of Jaunay
gives amnesty and freedom of worship to the Royalist rebels in the
Vendee
region. For a while.
(April 5) the
Treay of Basel
removes
Austria
and
Prussia
from the war. Prussia cedes its territory west of the Rhine to France.
France finishes its conquest of
The Netherlands
, erecting a puppet "
Batavian Republic
" (May 16) organized along the lines of the French Republic.
(July 22)
Spain
makes peace with France, and cedes its
Santo Domingo
colony on
Hispaniola
to France.
Britain seizes
the Dutch possessions of
Ceylon
(August 26)
and the
Cape Colony
(September 16) before Feance can control them.
A revolt breaks out
among the
Paris Sections
, Royalists supporting the
Comte d'Artois
(later
Louis XVIII
). A 26-year-old brigadier general from
Corsica
by the name of
Napoleon Bonaparte
is assigned to deal with the revolt, which he does (October 5) by firing
cannon
directly into the marching demonstrators. In gratitude, Bonaparte is made commander of the French Army of the Interior.
(November 27) A five-man ruling council known as
The Directory
is institited.
Siam
annexes
Cambodia
.
The
United States
revises its flag to include
15 stars
.
Mungo Park
begins his explorations along the
Niger River
.
(October 27) the
Pinckney Treaty
establishes the border between the United States and Spanish
West Florida
at the 31st
Parallel
, and gives the United States navigation rights on the
Mississippi River
.
Congress
rejects a proposal to print Federal laws in
German
as well as English.
The first
all-metal
printing press
is built in England.
James Hutton
publishes his
Theory of the Earth
, the founding work of
geology
.
1794
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1795
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1796
1796
1794
Francis Marion
A Convoluted History of Early Telecommunications
Kungsträdgården Park
Leopold von Ranke
John Keats
James K. Polk
Hugh James Rose
Tofino
Gabriel Lamé
Louis XVII
Rowland Hill
Mungo Park
Saxony
Uniformitarianism
Poland
George Washington's 1796 State of the Union Address
George Washington's 1795 State of the Union Address
Józef Antoni Poniatowski
West Florida
Partitions of Poland
Michilimackinac
1805
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