Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s
Years: 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794 - 1795 - 1796 1797 1798 1799 1800
Events
- January 16 - French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands
- February 7 - The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed
- April 7 - France adopts the metre as the unit of length
- April 8 - The Marriage of King George IV of the United Kingdom to Caroline of Brunswick
- May 15 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France enters Milan in triumph.
- Sweden becomes the first monarchy to recognize the French Republic.
- City of Edmonton, Alberta founded when a Hudson's Bay Company Trading Post is established with the construction of Fort Edmonton.
- By the Treaty of Madrid, Spain ceded to the United States her claims to the lands east of the Mississippi, see History of Alabama
- Third Partition of Poland
- December 13 A meteorite fell at Wold Newton, a hamlet in Yorkshire in England. This meteorite fall was subsequently used as a literary premise by the science fiction writer Philip Jose Farmer as the basis for the Wold Newton family stories. See: Wold Newton meteorite.
- 1795 in literature:
- The Monk - Matthew Lewis
- The Monk - Matthew Lewis
- May 19 - Johns Hopkins, philanthropist (+ 1873)
- September 16 - Saverio Mercadante, Italian opera composer
- October 15 - King Frederick William IV of Prussia
- October 31 - John Keats, English poet
- November 2 - James Knox Polk, 11th president of the United States
- December 4 - Thomas Carlyle, English essayist
- Constantine Kanaris - Greek freedom fighter, Admiral and politician.(Another possible year of birth is 1793).
- January 3 - Josiah Wedgwood, potter
- March 21 - Giovanni Arduino, geologist
- May 19 - Josiah Bartlett, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence
- June 8 - Louis XVII of France
- August 31 - François-André Danican Philidor, French composer and chess player
- China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)\n