The year 1795 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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- April 7 – The gram is decreed in France to be equal to "the absolute weight of a volume of water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of the metre, at the temperature of melting ice."[3]
- January 6 – Anselme Payen, French chemist (died 1878)
- May 5 – Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave, French dermatologist (died 1877)
- June 24 – Ernst Heinrich Weber, German physician, psychologist (died 1878)
- June 30 – Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, French chemist (died 1877)
- July 5 – Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe, German pharmacist, botanist and bryologist (died 1880)
- July 10 – Jean-Baptiste Guimet, French industrial chemist (died 1871)
- November 12 – Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (died 1856)
- December 8 – Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (died 1874)
- December 21
- January 21 – Samuel Wallis, English navigator (born 1728)
- March 21 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (born 1714)
- May 6 – Pieter Boddaert, Dutch physician and naturalist (born 1730)
- June 1 – Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (born 1744)
- June 9 – François Chopart, French surgeon (born 1743)
- June 17 – Gilbert Romme, French politician and mathematician (born 1750)
- June 18 – Marie Marguerite Bihéron, French anatomist (born 1719)
- June 24 – William Smellie, Scottish naturalist and encyclopedist (born 1740)
- July 3 – Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish explorer (born 1716)
- August 14 – George Adams, English scientific instrument maker (born 1750)
- October 1 – Robert Bakewell, English agriculturalist and geneticist (born 1725)
- December 28 – Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian medical hygienist, lawyer and journalist (born 1747)
Not published until 1809.
Bown, Stephen R. (2003). Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail. Penguin Books Australia. p. 222.
"Decree on weights and measures". 1795. Archived from the original on 24 September 2008. Retrieved 2 October 2008. Gramme, le poids absolu d'un volume d'eau pure égal au cube de la centième partie du mètre , et à la température de la glace fondante