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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

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)

Events

• 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

• 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)