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* 1795 – War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee ( present-day Sri Lanka ) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.
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The Captainship General of Cuba, encompassing Cuba and the governorships of Florida ( safe the English occupation between 1763 – 83 ), Santo Domingo ( until 1795 ), Puerto Rico, and the entire Louisiana Territory ( 1763 – 1803 )
Numerous works were produced in the years 1795 – 1797, of which several were repetitions of previous productions.
During the years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 1569 – 1795 ), official documents were written in Polish, Ruthenian and Latin, with Lithuanian being mostly an oral language, with small quantities of written documents.
The birth of the Bildungsroman is normally dated to the publication Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang Goethe in 1795 – 96.
The Trekboers, as they were originally known, were mainly of Dutch origin and included Calvinists, such as Flemish and Frisian Calvinists, as well as French Huguenot and German and British protestants who first arrived in the Cape of Good Hope during the period of its administration ( 1652 – 1795 ) by the Dutch East India Company ( Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC ).
" The name was used officially for the confederal country formed by Poland and Lithuania 1569 – 1795.
* 1795 – Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada ( present-day Toronto, Ontario ).
1795 and War
In 1795, following the Northwest Indian War, an area that was to be part of Chicago was turned over to the United States for a military post by native tribes in concordance with the Treaty of Greenville.
During the War of the First Coalition, Luxembourg was conquered and annexed by Revolutionary France, becoming part of the département of the Forêts in 1795.
The term is also used specifically to denote re-creation of the dances of the English Regency ( 1795 – 1820 ), American Civil War ( 1860s ), Victorian, and Ragtime eras.
* October 13 – John Armstrong, American civil engineer and soldier who served as a major general in the Revolutionary War ( d. 1795 )
It had been commissioned following the Northwest Indian War of 1785 – 1795, and the signing of the Treaty of Greenville at Fort Greenville ( now Greenville, Ohio ), on August 3, 1795.
Following the Northwest Indian War of 1785 – 1795, the Treaty of Greenville was signed at Fort Greenville ( now Greenville, Ohio ), on August 3, 1795.
Between 1710 and 1795, following Russia's success in the Great Northern War and the Partitions of Poland, the areas inhabited by Baltic Germans became Baltic governorates of Imperial Russia.
Francis Marion ( c. 1732 – February 27, 1795 ) was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War.
The county is named for American Revolutionary War general and Secretary of War Henry Knox, who lived in the county from 1795 until his death in 1806.
* Joseph Bloomfield ( 1753 – 1823 ), Captain in Revolutionary War, New Jersey Attorney General, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Vice-Admiralty Court, president of the first Society for the Abolition of Slavery, Mayor from 1795 to 1800, Governor of New Jersey ( 1801 – 1802 and 1803 – 1812 ), a Brigadier General in the War of 1812 and U. S. Representative from 1817 to 1821.
After the Revolutionary War, General William Irvine and Andrew Ellicott were sent to the area to lay out a town in 1795.
Born in Spain, he early entered the Spanish army, fighting in 1793 – 1795 in the Convention War, and in 1810 became general, receiving a command in Catalonia, where in that year he earned his title and the rank of field-marshal.
As a result of conflict in Europe, the British occupied Padang from 1781 to 1784 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, and again from 1795 to 1819 during the Napoleonic Wars.
As one of what Secretary of War William Windham called " acquitted felons ", Holcroft's post-arrest reputation meant that his plays achieved little success after 1795, although he was instrumental in bringing melodrama to Britain at the end of the decade with his Deaf and Dumb ( 1801 ) and A Tale of Mystery ( 1802 ) ( an unacknowledged translation of de Pixerécourt's Cœlina, ou, l ' enfant du mystère ).
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