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The French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands (Jan 16), and later enter Amsterdam (Jan 20), the metric system is adopted in France (Apr 7), the Kingdom of Hawaii is founded (May 1), a large slave rebellion occurs  in Curacao, suppressed the following month (Aug 17), the Alliance of St Petersburg is formed between Britain, Russia and Austria against France (Sep 28), the United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, establishing the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S. and with Spain relinquishing its claim on all territory north from 31°N to 32° 22′ to the United States (Oct 27) - and all these fine people were born:

1795-xxxx Achilles Bishoff* Swiss politician - Basel,  Swiss Confederacy (1867/72) 1795-0115 Willem de Clercq* poet/leader of the Protestant Church Revival in the Netherlands - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1844/49) 1795-0117 Johan Anton Karsten* (b Carstén) printer - Pälkäne, Sweden-Finland (1871/76) 1795-0127 Eli Whitney Blake* inventor - Westborough, MA USA (1886/91) 1795-0201 William Dunn Moseley* politician/ 1st Governor of Florida - Moseley Hall, Lenoir County, NC USA (1863/67) 1795-0210 Ary Scheffer* painter - Dordrecht, Dutch Republic (1858/63) 1795-0519 Johns Hopkins* entrepreneur/ investor/philanthropist - White’s Hall, MD USA (1873/78) 1795-0619 James Braid* surgeon/hypnotist - Portmoak, Kinross-shire, Scotland (1860/64) 1795-0704 Karl Eichwald* geologist/physician/naturalist - Mitau, Courland Governate (1876/81) 1795-0714 Eleanor Anne Porden* poet - London, England (1825/29) 1795-0825 Luis_José de Orbegoso* soldier/ politician/the 5th President of Peru - Chuquizongo, Huamachuco, Viceroyalty of Peru, Spanish Empire (1847/51) 1795-0827 Giorgio Mitrovich* Maltese patriot/politician- Senglea, Hospitaller Malta (1885/89) 1795-0915 Johan Ulrik Sebastian Gripenberg* baron/ landowner/senator - Sääksmäki, Sweden-Finland (1869/74) 1795-1029 Lucy Goodale Thurston* Protestant missionary/author - Marlborough, MA USA (1876/)80 1795-1031 John Keats* poet - Moorgate, London, England (1821/25) 1795-1102 James Knox Polk* politician/11usp - Pineville, NC USA (1849/53) 1795-1204 Thomas Carlyle* philosopher/writer - Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland (1881/85) 1795-1210 Matthias W. Baldwin* locomotive manufacturer - Elizabethtown, NJ USA (1866/70) Updated 19.9.2022-3 Search for another year here