1795

Events from the year **1795 in the United States**.

* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Frederick Muhlenberg (Anti-Admin.-PA) (until March 4), Jonathan Dayton (Federalist-NJ) (starting December 7)
* Congress: 3rd (until March 4), 4th (starting March 4)

Governors
* Governor of Connecticut: Samuel Huntington (Federalist)
* Governor of Delaware: Joshua Clayton (Federalist)
* Governor of Georgia: George Mathews (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Kentucky: Issac Shelby (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Maryland: John Hoskins Stone (Federalist)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Samuel Adams (no political party)
* Governor of New Hampshire: John Taylor Gilman (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of New Jersey: Richard Howell (Federalist)
* Governor of New York: George Clinton (Democratic-Republican) (until June 30), John Jay (Federalist) (starting July 1)
* Governor of North Carolina: Richard Dobbs Spaight (Federalist) (until November 19), Samuel Ashe (Anti-Federalist) (starting November 19)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: Thomas Mifflin (no political party)
* Governor of Rhode Island: Arthur Fenner (Country)
* Governor of South Carolina: Arnoldus Vanderhorst (Federalist)
* Governor of Vermont: Thomas Chittenden (no political party)
* Governor of Virginia: Robert Brooke (Democratic-Republican)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Oliver Wolcott (Federalist)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Moses Gill (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: Pierre Van Cortlandt (political party unknown) (until June 30), Stephen Van Rensselaer (political party unknown) (starting July 1)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Samuel J. Potter (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Lewis Morris (Federalist)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Jonathan Hunt (political party unknown)

## 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.
* August 2 – The Treaty of Greenville is signed between the Western Confederacy and the United States, ending the Northwest Indian War.
* October 27 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the United States.

## Memoriam

* January 22 – Richard Clinton, officer in the Continental Army (aged 75; Clinton, NC, USA)
* January 23 – John Sullivan, general in the Revolutionary War, delegate in the Continental Congress (aged 54; Durham, NH, USA)
* February 14 – Samuel Cook Silliman, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk (aged 53; New Canaan, CT, USA)
* February 27 – Richard Clarke, Massachusetts merchant (aged 83; London, England, GB)
* March 4 – John Collins, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (aged 77; Newport, RI, USA)
* March 9 – John Armstrong Sr., civil engineer, major general in the Revolutionary War (aged 77; Carlisle, PA, USA)
* March 18 – Jonathan Buck, founder of Bucksport, Maine (aged 76; Bucksport, MA (Now ME), USA)
* May 2 – Increase Moseley, politician (aged 82; Clarendon, VT, USA)
* May 12 – Ezra Stiles, academic, educator and author (aged 67; New Haven, CT, USA)
* May 18 – Robert Rogers, British Army officer and colonial frontiersman (aged 63; London, England, GB)
* May 19 – Josiah Bartlett, signatory of the Declaration of Independence (aged 65; Kingston, NH, USA)
* July 28 – Zebulon Butler, soldier and politician (aged 64; Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA)
* August 4 – Timothy Ruggles, exiled politician (aged 83; Wilmot, (Now NS), British Empire (Now Canada))
* August 5 – William Fleming, physician and 3rd Governor of Virginia in 1781 (aged 68; Hollins, VA, USA)
* August 23 – William Bradford, 2nd U.S. Attorney General from 1794 (aged 39; Washington, DC, USA)
* October 10 – Samuel Fraunces, restaurateur (aged 73; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* October 13 – William Prescott, colonel in the Revolutionary War (aged 69; Pepperell, MA, USA)