Year by year · 18th century
1795
1795 in world history: 24 events, 15 births, 12 deaths, 7 states founded and 11 that came to an end. 1,283 recorded states existed that year.
Events
Crisis
Third Partition of Poland
The Third Partition of Poland was the final division of the remaining territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth among Russia, Prussia and Austria in 1795.
Campaign
French revolutionary occupation of the Netherlands
The French revolutionary occupation of the Netherlands took place in 1795, when French armies overran the Dutch Republic and established the Batavian Republic.
Battle
Battle of Muizenberg
The Battle of Muizenberg was fought near Cape Town from August to September 1795, when a British expedition attacked the Dutch Cape Colony to keep the sea route to India from France after the Netherlands fell to the French Republic.
Battle
Battle of Nuʻuanu
The Battle of Nuʻuanu was fought on Oʻahu in May 1795, when Kamehameha I, armed with Western guns and advisers, defeated Kalanikūpule, ruler of Oʻahu and Maui.
Battle
Battle of Krtsanisi
The Battle of Krtsanisi was fought on 11 September 1795 near Tbilisi between the Qajar army of Agha Mohammad Khan and the much smaller Georgian force of Erekle II of Kartli-Kakheti.
Treaty · Peace
Treaty of Greenville
The Treaty of Greenville was signed on 3 August 1795 at Fort Greenville, in present-day Ohio, between the United States and the nations of the Western Confederacy after their defeat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
Treaty
Treaty of The Hague (1795)
The Treaty of The Hague was signed on 16 May 1795 between the French Republic and the new Batavian Republic.
Battle
Battle of Kharda
The Battle of Kharda was fought in March 1795 near Kharda in the Deccan between the Maratha Confederacy and the army of Nizam Ali Khan of Hyderabad.
Treaty · Peace
Peace of Basel (1795)
The Peace of Basel was the set of treaties of 1795 by which Prussia, Spain and Hesse-Kassel made peace with revolutionary France.
In the profiles
Polish-Lithuanian CommonwealthThe Third Partition erases the Commonwealth from the map
County of FlandersFrance annexes the county
County of HainautRevolutionary France annexes Hainaut as the department of Jemmapes
Prince-Bishopric of LiègeFrance annexes the principality
Duchy of BrabantThe French Republic annexes the duchy
Grand Duchy of LithuaniaThe Third Partition gives almost all remaining lands to the Russian Empire
Dutch RepublicFrench armies overrun the Republic and the Batavian Republic is proclaimed
Cape ColonyBritish forces take the Cape after the Battle of Muizenberg
Kingdom of HawaiiKamehameha I wins the Battle of Nuʻuanu and takes Oʻahu
Wars and longer events
Born in 1795 15
Antonio José de Sucre1795–1830
Frederick William IV of Prussia1795–1861
Diwan Dina Nath1795–1857
Johann Martin Honigberger1795–1869
José Gregorio Monagas1795–1858
Karl Ludwig Sand1795–1820
Leopold von Ranke1795–1886
Narciso Clavería1795–1851
Luis José de Orbegoso1795–1847
Robert F. Stockton1795–1866
Sahle Selassie1795–1847
William Lyon Mackenzie1795–1861
Jacques Louis Randon1795–1871- Ghazi Muhammad1795–1832
- Robert Moffat1795–1883
Died in 1795 12
States founded 7
States that came to an end 11
- Captaincy General of Santo Domingo 1493 CE – 1795 CE
- County of Flanders 862 CE – 1795 CE
- County of Luxembourg 963 CE – 1795 CE
- District of Pilten 1585 CE – 1795 CE
- Duchy of Brabant 1183 CE – 1795 CE
- Duchy of Courland and Semigallia 1561 CE – 1795 CE
- Dutch Malabar 1661 CE – 1795 CE
- Dutch Republic 1581 CE – 1795 CE
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1569 CE – 1795 CE
- Swellendam Republic 1795 CE – 1795 CE
- Western Confederacy 1785 CE – 1795 CE
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