When Danican's poorly trained men attacked, on 13 Vendémiaire, 1795 — October 5, 1795, in the calendar used in France, at the time — Napoleon ordered his cannon to fire grapeshot into the mob, an act that became known as the " whiff of grapeshot ".

When the original engineer, Josiah Clowes, died in 1795, Telford succeeded him.

When the Dutch Republic, during the Napoleonic Wars, was occupied by the French in 1795, henceforth becoming their vassal and enemy of the British, the United Kingdom invaded and occupied the Cape Colony that same year ; relinquished control of the territory in 1803 ; only to return and reoccupy the Cape on 19 January 1806.

When the metric system was introduced in France in 1795, it included units for length, area, dry volume, liquid capacity, weight or mass, and even currency, but not for time.

When the young Louis XVII, Louis XVI's son, died in prison in June 1795, Louis XVIII succeeded his nephew as titular King, although the monarchy had been disestablished.

When the French invaded Holland in 1795, Willem V was forced to flee, and he was never to return to Holland.

When the towns of Carmel and Patterson were split from Frederickstown in 1795, the remnant, constituting the current Kent, was established as the " Town of Frederick ".

When Somerset County was established in 1795 Quemahoning was one of the six original townships.

When they had requested French help, a young artillery officer by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte was to be sent to Constantinople in 1795 to help organize Ottoman artillery.

When the Directoire came into power in 1795 the Maximum Price Act was lifted.

When rioting sans-culottes, demanding bread and the Jacobin constitution, violently occupied the Convention on Prairial an III ( 20 May 1795 ), Romme supported their demands.

When John Jay resigned from the Court in 1795, Washington faced the task of appointing a new Chief Justice.

When the fraud was exposed in 1795 there was significant public outcry, and the Georgia legislation authorizing the sales was repealed.

When Charles Theodore died, Bavaria and the Electorate passed to his cousin, Max Joseph, Duke of Zweibrücken, the younger brother of Charles August, who had died in 1795.

When the Brewers guild was disbanded ( along with the other Haarlem guilds ) at the start of the French occupation in 1795, the hofje was run by a city-appointed committee, and since 1811 after the departure of the French, the hofje has been run by the Haarlem city council.

When he again began to produce under the French Directory ( 1795 – 1799 ), his style had changed radically.

When Haydn returned from London in 1795, he visited the monument ; this was the occasion for an emotional return to his old home town.

When Vicky returned, a worried Barnabas bit her before she could tell anyone of her memories of 1795.

When the building was replaced in 1795, it was painted red and white and called " The Old Red School House.

When Pichegru in 1795 overran Holland, De Winter returned with the French army to his native country.

When Roger Sherman died in 1793, Governor Huntington appointed him to the United States Senate, where he served until 1795.

When Friedrich Weber erected the genus Homarus in 1795, he included Fabricius ' species in it, but this placement was not followed by later authors.

When the bishopric was annexed by Revolutionary France in 1795, the county of Loon was also disbanded and became part of the département of Meuse-Inférieure, along with Dutch Limburg to the east of the Meuse.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

When they lost it, the French artillery moved in, and that was the end for Garibaldi that time, on 30 April 1849.

When Napoleon's ship had borne him to Elba, French wines had started to cross the Channel, the first shipments in a dozen war-ridden years, but the supplies had not yet reached rural hostelries where the sweet wines of the Spanish peninsula still ruled.

When this discovery was followed up in 1870, on the neighbouring Santorin ( Thera ), by representatives of the French School at Athens, much pottery of a class now known immediately to precede the typical late Aegean ware, and many stone and metal objects, were found.

When Nelson's fleet arrived off Egypt on 1 August and discovered Brueys's dispositions, he ordered an immediate attack, and his ships advanced on the French line.

When the messenger had finished, the French general reportedly announced " Nous n ' avons plus de flotte: eh bien.

When the news became certain, the French press insisted that the defeat was the result both of an overwhelmingly large British force and unspecified " traitors.

When Colonel de Gaulle did organize a counter-attack with superior French tanks, he did not have the air support to gain the upper hand and had to retreat.

When the capital was burned in 1893, the sultan sought and received protectorate status from the French.

When in 1981 François Mitterrand was elected president Denard lost the support of the French intelligence service, but he managed to strengthen the link between SA and the Comoros.

When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers.

When the French general Junot arrived in Lisbon, the Portuguese fleet had already left with all the local elite.

When the Protestant Henry IV inherited the French throne in 1589, Elizabeth sent him military support.

When the affair became public, Federalists accused him of supporting the French while Republicans such as Thomas Jefferson supported him.

When the French Constituent Assembly abolished the " feudal regime " in August 1789 this is what was meant.

When the French public were asked to select which film they wanted to see most, having been told by the Vichy government that soon no more American films would be allowed in France, the overwhelming majority chose it over all others.

When the French king Charles VIII invaded northern Italy, Piero II chose to resist his army.

When his father returned to Assisi, he took to calling him Francesco (" the Frenchman "), possibly in honour of his commercial success and enthusiasm for all things French .< ref name =" Chesterton ">

When the French forces were recalled in 1706, he accompanied the duke to Paris, where he was favourably received by Louis XIV.

When the French tried to impose the French language, German opposition grew in intensity.

When Prussia tried to put a Hohenzollern candidate, Prince Leopold, on the Spanish throne, the French angrily protested.

When the Brunswick Manifesto of July 1792 once more threatened the French population with Austrian ( Imperial ) and Prussian attacks, Louis XVI was suspected of treason and taken along with his family from the Tuileries Palace in August 1792 by insurgents supported by a new revolutionary Paris Commune.

When France was negotiating with the Netherlands about purchasing Luxembourg in 1867, the Prussian Kingdom threatened the French government with war.

When the war ended on 11 November 1918, Italy's army had occupied most of Albania ; Serbia held much of the country's northern mountains ; Greece occupied a sliver of land within Albania's 1913 borders ; and French forces occupied Korçë and Shkodër as well as other regions with sizable Albanian populations such as Kosovo.