1795 in the United States

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Events from the year 1795 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: George Washington (no political party-Virginia)
• Vice President: John Adams (F-Massachusetts)
• Chief Justice:

John Jay (New York)

John Rutledge (South Carolina)

• Speaker of the House of Representatives:

Frederick Muhlenberg (Anti-Admin.-Pennsylvania) (until March 4)

Jonathan Dayton (Federalist-New Jersey) (starting December 7)

• Congress: 3rd (until March 4), 4th (starting March 4)

Governors and lieutenant governors

Governors Governor of Connecticut: Samuel Huntington (Federalist) Governor of Delaware: Joshua Clayton (Federalist) Governor of Georgia: George Mathews (Democratic-Republican) Governor of Kentucky: Issac Shelby (Democratic-Republican) Governor of Maryland: John Hoskins Stone (Federalist) Governor of Massachusetts: Samuel Adams (no political party) Governor of New Hampshire: John Taylor Gilman (Federalist) Governor of New Jersey: Richard Howell (Federalist) Governor of New York: George Clinton (Democratic-Republican) (until end of June 30), John Jay (Federalist) (starting July 1) Governor of North Carolina: Richard Dobbs Spaight (Federalist) (until November 19), Samuel Ashe (Anti-Federalist) (starting November 19) Governor of Pennsylvania: Thomas Mifflin (Democratic-Republican) Governor of Rhode Island: Arthur Fenner (Country) Governor of South Carolina: Arnoldus Vanderhorst (Federalist) Governor of Vermont: Thomas Chittenden (no political party) Governor of Virginia: Robert Brooke (Democratic-Republican) Lieutenant governors Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Oliver Wolcott (Federalist) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Moses Gill (political party unknown) Lieutenant Governor of New York: Pierre Van Cortlandt (political party unknown) (until end of June 30), Stephen Van Rensselaer (political party unknown) (starting July 1) Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Samuel J. Potter (Democratic-Republican) Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Lewis Morris (Federalist) Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Jonathan Hunt (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Paul Brigham (Democratic-Republican) (starting month and day unknown)

Events

August 2: The Treaty of Greenville ends the Northwest Indian War

• January 14 – The University of North Carolina (renamed The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1963) opens to students, becoming the first state university in the United States.
• January 29 – The Naturalization Act of 1795 replaces and repeals the Naturalization Act of 1790.
• February 7 – The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed.
• May 1 – Battle of Nu'uanu: Kamehameha I of the island of Hawaii defeats the Oahuans, solidifying his control of the major islands of the archipelago and officially founding the Kingdom of Hawaii.
• June 8 – George Washington submits the Jay Treaty to the United States Senate for ratification.
• August 2 – The Treaty of Greenville is signed between the Western Confederacy and the United States, ending the Northwest Indian War.
• September 5 – The U.S. signs a treaty with the Dey of Algiers, ruled by Baba Hassan, pledging the payment of $23,000 a year tribute to prevent piracy against American ships.
• October 27 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the United States.

Ongoing

• Northwest Indian War (1785–1795)
• Slavery (1625–1865)

Births

James K. Polk

• February 18 – George Peabody, businessman and philanthropist (died 1869)
• April 17 – George Edmund Badger, U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1846 to 1855 (died 1866)
• May 19 – Johns Hopkins, businessman and philanthropist (died 1873)
• June 2 – William S. Fulton, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1836 to 1844 (died 1844)
• July 5 – Benjamin Morrell, sealing captain and explorer (died c. 1839 probably in Mozambique)
• August 31 – William Lee D. Ewing, U.S. Senator from Illinois in 1834 (died 1846)
• September 22 – Jesse Speight, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1845 to 1847 (died 1847)
• October 13 – James McDowell, politician (died 1851)
• October 16 – William Buell Sprague, clergyman, author (died 1876)
• November 2 – James K. Polk, 11th president of the U.S. from 1845 to 1849 (died 1849)
• November 12 – Thaddeus William Harris, naturalist (died 1856)
• December 1 – James Whitcomb, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1849 to 1852 (died 1852)
• December 10 – Matthias W. Baldwin, locomotive manufacturer (died 1866)
• date unknown – Chief Oshkosh, Menominee chief (died 1858)

Deaths

• January 22 – Richard Clinton, officer in the Continental Army (born 1741)
• January 23 – John Sullivan, general in the Revolutionary War, delegate in the Continental Congress (born 1740)
• January 25 – Morgan Edwards, clergyman (born 1722 in Wales)
• February 14 – Samuel Cook Silliman, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk (born 1741)
• February 27 – Richard Clarke, Massachusetts merchant (born 1711)
• March 4 – John Collins, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (born 1717)
• March 9 – John Armstrong, Sr., civil engineer, major general in the Revolutionary War (born 1717)
• March 18 – Jonathan Buck, founder of Bucksport, Maine (born 1719)
• May 2 – Increase Moseley, politician (born 1712)
• May 12 – Ezra Stiles, academic, educator and author (born 1727)
• May 18 – Robert Rogers, British Army officer and colonial frontiersman (born 1731)
• May 19 – Josiah Bartlett, signatory of the Declaration of Independence (born 1729)
• July 28 – Zebulon Butler, soldier and politician (born 1731)
• August 4 – Timothy Ruggles, exiled politician (born 1711)
• August 5 – William Fleming, physician and 3rd Governor of Virginia in 1781 (born 1729 in Scotland)
• August 23 – William Bradford, 2nd U.S. Attorney General from 1794 (born 1755)
• October 10 – Samuel Fraunces, restaurateur (born 1722)
• October 13 – William Prescott, colonel in the Revolutionary War (born 1726)

See also

• Timeline of United States history (1790–1819)

Further reading

• G. L. Rives. Spain and the United States in 1795. The American Historical Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (October, 1898), pp. 62–79.
• Frederick J. Turner. Documents on the Blount Conspiracy, 1795–1797. The American Historical Review, Vol. 10, No. 3 (April, 1905), pp. 574–606.
• Edmund Randolph on the British Treaty, 1795. The American Historical Review, Vol. 12, No. 3 (April, 1907), pp. 587–599.
• Charles A. Kent. The Treaty of Greenville. August 3, 1795. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 10, No. 4 (January, 1918), pp. 568–584.
• Arthur Preston Whitaker. Harry Innes and the Spanish Intrigue: 1794–1795. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 15, No. 2 (September, 1928), pp. 236–248.
• Marion Tinling. Cawsons, Virginia, in 1795–1796. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 3, No. 2 (April, 1946), pp. 281–291.
• James E. Cronin. Elihu Hubbard Smith and the New York Friendly Club, 1795–1798. PMLA, Vol. 64, No. 3 (June, 1949), pp. 471–479.
• Gerard Clarfield. Postscript to the Jay Treaty: Timothy Pickering and Anglo-American Relations, 1795–1797. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 23, No. 1 (January, 1966), pp. 106–120.
• John L. Earl III. Talleyrand in Philadelphia, 1794–1796. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 91, No. 3 (July, 1967), pp. 282–298.
• Thomas J. Farnham. The Virginia Amendments of 1795: An Episode in the Opposition to Jay's Treaty. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 75, No. 1 (January, 1967), pp. 75–88.
• Chester McArthur Destler. "Forward Wheat" for New England: The Correspondence of John Taylor of Caroline with Jeremiah Wadsworth, in 1795. Agricultural History, Vol. 42, No. 3 (July, 1968), pp. 201–210.
• Edwin R. Baldridge Jr. Talleyrand's visit to Pennsylvania, 1794–1796. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 36, No. 2 (APRIL, 1969), pp. 145–160.
• Eugene P. Link. The Republican Harmony (1795) of Nathaniel Billings. Journal of Research in Music Education, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Winter, 1970), pp. 414–419.
• James R. Beasley. Emerging Republicanism and the Standing Order: The Appropriation Act Controversy in Connecticut, 1793 to 1795. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 29, No. 4 (October, 1972), pp. 587–610.
• George E. Brooks, Jr. The Providence African Society's Sierra Leone Emigration Scheme, 1794–1795: Prologue to the African Colonization Movement. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2 (1974), pp. 183–202.
• Jack Campisi. New York-Oneida Treaty of 1795: A Finding of Fact. American Indian Law Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1976), pp. 71–82.
• Richard Wojtowicz, Billy G. Smith. Advertisements For Runaway Slaves, Indentured Servants, and Apprentices in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1795–1796. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 54, No. 1 (January 1987), pp. 34–71.
• Michael L. Kennedy. A French Jacobin Club in Charleston, South Carolina, 1792–1795. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 91, No. 1 (January, 1990), pp. 4–22.
• Joanna Bowen Gillespie. 1795: Martha Laurens Ramsay's "Dark Night of the Soul". The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 48, No. 1 (January, 1991), pp. 68–92.
• Leslie C. Patrick-Stamp. The Prison Sentence Docket for 1795: Inmates at the Nation's First State Penitentiary. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 60, No. 3 (July 1993), pp. 353–382.
• David P. Currie. The Constitution in Congress: The Third Congress, 1793–1795. The University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Winter, 1996), pp. 1–48.
• Glynn R. deV. Barratt. A Russian View of Philadelphia, 1795–96: From the Journal of Lieutenant Iurii Lisianskii. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 65, No. 1, Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies (Winter 1998), pp. 62–86.
• Albrecht Koschnik. The Democratic Societies of Philadelphia and the Limits of the American Public Sphere, c. 1793–1795. William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 58, No. 3 (July, 2001), pp. 615–636.

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