1795 in Great Britain
Great Britain-related events during the year of 1795
Events from the year 1795 in Great Britain .
Incumbents
Events
January – the coldest month ever in the Central England temperature series with an average of −3.1 °C or 26.4 °F.[2]
18 January – William V, Prince of Orange , flees the Dutch Republic for exile at Kew .
10 to 12 February – great floods on the Rivers Severn and Wye result from ice breakup, snowmelt and heavy rainfall; many bridges damaged.[3] [4]
March
13–14 March – Battle of Genoa : the British and Neapolitan fleets are victorious over the French.
April – the British Army is evacuated from Bremen , having been unsuccessful in the Flanders Campaign under Prince Frederick, Duke of York .[6]
8 April – marriage of George, Prince of Wales , to his cousin Caroline of Brunswick at St James's Palace on the promise of being relieved of his debts; the couple separate after a year.
23 April – former Governor-General of India Warren Hastings acquitted by the House of Lords of misconduct.[7]
28 April – Vagrant Act provides for magistrates to enrol vagrants and smugglers into the Royal Navy as an alternative to judicial punishment.[5]
5 May – a tax on hair-powder under the Duty on Hair Powder Act 1795 comes into effect, helping to end the fashion for powdering hair and wigs .[8]
6 May – introduction of Speenhamland system of outdoor relief for the poor (originally by magistrates meeting at the Pelican Inn, Speenhamland, Berkshire ).[9]
16–17 June – French Revolutionary Wars: Cornwallis's Retreat – a British Royal Navy battle squadron commanded by William Cornwallis fends off a numerically superior French Navy fleet off the coast of Brittany .
July to September – a Newcomen atmospheric engine begins pumping at Elsecar New Colliery in the South Yorkshire Coalfield ;[10] 220 years later it will be the only operable example on its original site.
25 August – British forces capture Trincomalee in Ceylon .[8]
September and October
Riots over shortages of bread in many towns across Britain.[8]
Only 12.9 millimetres or 0.51 inches of rain fall in September but as much as 173.2 millimetres or 6.82 inches in October, creating the largest month-to-month rise in the England and Wales Precipitation series .[11]
16 September – British forces capture Cape Town from the Netherlands .[8]
22 September – London Missionary Society inaugurated.[8]
28 September – the Alliance of St Petersburg formed between Britain, Russia and Austria against France .[7]
2 October – British forces capture Ile d'Yeu , off the coast of Brittany .[8]
29 October – King George pelted with stones by an angry mob as bread riots continue.[8]
November – Parliament passes the Treasonable Practices Act and the Seditious Meetings Act prohibiting assemblies of more than fifty people.[7]
13 December – a meteorite falls at the hamlet of Wold Newton, East Riding of Yorkshire .
Ongoing
Publications
Births
5 April – Henry Havelock , general (died 1857 )
25 May – George Meikle Kemp , architect (died 1844 )
26 May – Thomas Noon Talfourd , judge and author (died 1854 )
13 June – Thomas Arnold , historian and school headmaster (died 1842 )
11 August – Elizabeth Sackville-West, Countess De La Warr , peeress (died 1870 )
13 September – Julius Hare , theologian (died 1855 )
24 October – Edwin Norris , philologist, linguist and orientalist (died 1872 )
31 October – John Keats , poet and leading figure of the Romantic movement (died 1821 )
10 November – Walter Geikie , painter (died 1837 )
10 December – Sir George Burns, 1st Baronet , shipping magnate (died 1890 )
4 December – Thomas Carlyle , historian and philosopher (died 1881 )
12 December – Jack Russell , parson and dog breeder (died 1883 )
Unknown date – Zephaniah Williams , Welsh chartist (died 1874 )
Deaths
See also
References
^ "History of William Pitt 'The Younger' - GOV.UK" . www.gov.uk . Retrieved 1 July 2023 .
^ Hadley Centre Ranked Central England temperature.
^ "Some historic examples of flood reports" . Lower Severn Community Flood Information Network. Retrieved 8 May 2012 .
^ Eisel, John (2010). "The Great Flood of 1795". Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club . 58 : 189–97.
^ a b McCranie, Kevin (2009). "Recruitment for the British Navy 1793–1815" . In Stoker, Donald; Schneid, Frederick C.; Blanton, Harold D. (eds.). Conscription in the Napoleonic Era: A Revolution in Military Affairs? . London: Routledge. p. 96. ISBN 9781134270101 .
^ Heathcote, Tony (1999). The British Field Marshals 1736–1997: a biographical dictionary . London: Leo Cooper. ISBN 0-85052-696-5 .
^ a b c Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 345–346 . ISBN 0-304-35730-8 .
^ a b c d e f g Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 234–235. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 .
^ Bloy, Marjie (2002). "The Speenhamland System" . The Victorian Web . Archived from the original on 7 August 2010. Retrieved 3 August 2010 .
^ "Elsecar Newcomen-type Engine" . Engineering Timelines . Retrieved 24 December 2014 .
^ Hadley Center Ranked EWP.
^ Townsend, Joyce, ed. (2003). William Blake: the Painter at Work . London: Tate Publishing . p. 32. ISBN 1-85437-468-0 .