1795 in the United States

Events from the year 1795 in the United States.

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See also:	History of the United States (1789–1849) Timeline of United States history (1790–1819) List of years 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.^[1]
• 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.^[2]
• 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)