Events

• January 14 – The University of North Carolina
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...
  
   (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
  Naturalization Act of 1795
  The United States Naturalization Act of January 29, 1795 repealed and replaced the Naturalization Act of 1790. The 1795 Act differed from the 1790 Act by increasing the period of required residence from two to five years in the United States, by introducing the Declaration of Intention...
  
   replaces and repeals the Naturalization Act of 1790
  Naturalization Act of 1790
  The original United States Naturalization Law of March 26, 1790 provided the first rules to be followed by the United States in the granting of national citizenship. This law limited naturalization to immigrants who were "free white persons" of "good moral character". It thus left out indentured...
  
  .
• February 7 – The 11th Amendment
  Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
  The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was passed by the Congress on March 4, 1794, and was ratified on February 7, 1795, deals with each state's sovereign immunity. This amendment was adopted in order to overrule the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Chisholm v...
  
   to the United States Constitution
  United States Constitution
  The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. It is the framework for the organization of the United States government and for the relationship of the federal government with the states, citizens, and all people within the United States.The first three...
  
   is passed.
• May 1 – Battle of Nu'uanu
  Battle of Nu'uanu
  The Battle of Nuuanu , fought in May 1795 on the southern part of the island of Oahu, was a key battle in the final days of King Kamehameha I's wars to unify the Hawaiian Islands...
  
  : Kamehameha I
  Kamehameha I
  Kamehameha I , also known as Kamehameha the Great, conquered the Hawaiian Islands and formally established the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1810. By developing alliances with the major Pacific colonial powers, Kamehameha preserved Hawaii's independence under his rule...
  
   of the Island of Hawaii
  Hawaii
  Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
  
   defeats the Oahu
  Oahu
  Oahu or Oahu , known as "The Gathering Place", is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous of the islands in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The state capital Honolulu is located on the southeast coast...
  
  ans, solidifying his control of the major islands of the archipelago and officially founding the Kingdom of Hawaii
  Kingdom of Hawaii
  The Kingdom of Hawaii was established during the years 1795 to 1810 with the subjugation of the smaller independent chiefdoms of Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lānai, Kauai and Niihau by the chiefdom of Hawaii into one unified government...
  
  .
• June 8 – George Washington
  George Washington
  George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...
  
   submits the Jay Treaty
  Jay Treaty
  Jay's Treaty, , also known as Jay's Treaty, The British Treaty, and the Treaty of London of 1794, was a treaty between the United States and Great Britain that is credited with averting war,, resolving issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris of 1783, which ended the American Revolution,, and...
  
   to the United States Senate
  United States Senate
  The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
  
   for ratification.
• August 2 – The Treaty of Greenville
  Treaty of Greenville
  The Treaty of Greenville was signed at Fort Greenville , on August 3, 1795, between a coalition of Native Americans & Frontiers men, known as the Western Confederacy, and the United States following the Native American loss at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. It put an end to the Northwest Indian War...
  
   is signed between the Western Confederacy
  Western Confederacy
  The Western Confederacy, also known as Western Indian Confederacy, was a loose confederacy of North American Natives in the Great Lakes region following the American Revolutionary War...
  
   and the United States, ending the Northwest Indian War
  Northwest Indian War
  The Northwest Indian War , also known as Little Turtle's War and by various other names, was a war fought between the United States and a confederation of numerous American Indian tribes for control of the Northwest Territory...
  
  .
• October 27 – The United States and Spain
  Spain
  Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
  
   sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies
  Spanish colonization of the Americas
  Colonial expansion under the Spanish Empire was initiated by the Spanish conquistadores and developed by the Monarchy of Spain through its administrators and missionaries. The motivations for colonial expansion were trade and the spread of the Christian faith through indigenous conversions...
  
  and the United States.

Further reading

• G. L. Rives. Spain and the United States in 1795. The American Historical Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Oct., 1898), pp. 62-79.
• Frederick J. Turner. Documents on the Blount Conspiracy, 1795-1797. The American Historical Review, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Apr., 1905), pp. 574-606.
• Edmund Randolph on the British Treaty, 1795. The American Historical Review, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Apr., 1907), pp. 587-599.
• Charles A. Kent. The Treaty of Greenville. August 3, 1795. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1908-1984), Vol. 10, No. 4 (Jan., 1918), pp. 568-584.
• Arthur Preston Whitaker. Harry Innes and the Spanish Intrigue: 1794-1795. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Sep., 1928), pp. 236-248.
• Marion Tinling. Cawsons, Virginia, in 1795-1796. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Apr., 1946), pp. 281-291.
• James E. Cronin. Elihu Hubbard Smith and the New York Friendly Club, 1795-1798. PMLA, Vol. 64, No. 3 (Jun., 1949), pp. 471-479.
• Gerard Clarfield. Postscript to the Jay Treaty: Timothy Pickering and Anglo-American Relations, 1795-1797. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Jan., 1966), pp. 106-120.
• John L. Earl III. Talleyrand in Philadelphia, 1794-1796. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 91, No. 3 (Jul., 1967), pp. 282-298.
• Thomas J. Farnham. The Virginia Amendments of 1795: An Episode in the Opposition to Jay's Treaty. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 75, No. 1 (Jan., 1967), pp. 75-88.
• Chester McArthur Destler. "Forward Wheat" for New England: The Correspondence of John Taylor of Caroline with Jeremiah Wadsworth, in 1795. Agricultural History, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Jul., 1968), pp. 201-210.
• Edwin R. Baldridge Jr. Talleyrand's visit to Pennsylvania, 1794-1796. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 36, No. 2 (APRIL, 1969), pp. 145-160.
• Eugene P. Link. The Republican Harmony (1795) of Nathaniel Billings. Journal of Research in Music Education, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Winter, 1970), pp. 414-419.
• James R. Beasley. Emerging Republicanism and the Standing Order: The Appropriation Act Controversy in Connecticut, 1793 to 1795. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Oct., 1972), pp. 587-610.
• George E. Brooks, Jr. The Providence African Society's Sierra Leone Emigration Scheme, 1794-1795: Prologue to the African Colonization Movement. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2 (1974), pp. 183-202.
• Jack Campisi. New York-Oneida Treaty of 1795: A Finding of Fact. American Indian Law Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1976), pp. 71-82.
• Richard Wojtowicz, Billy G. Smith. Advertisements For Runaway Slaves, Indentured Servants, and Apprentices in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1795–1796. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 54, No. 1 (January, 1987), pp. 34-71.
• Michael L. Kennedy. A French Jacobin Club in Charleston, South Carolina, 1792-1795. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 91, No. 1 (Jan., 1990), pp. 4-22.
• Joanna Bowen Gillespie. 1795: Martha Laurens Ramsay's "Dark Night of the Soul". The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Jan., 1991), pp. 68-92.
• Leslie C. Patrick-Stamp. The Prison Sentence Docket for 1795: Inmates at the Nation's First State Penitentiary. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 60, No. 3 (July 1993), pp. 353-382.
• David P. Currie. The Constitution in Congress: The Third Congress, 1793-1795. The University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Winter, 1996), pp. 1-48.
• Glynn R. deV. Barratt. A Russian View of Philadelphia, 1795-96: From the Journal of Lieutenant Iurii Lisianskii. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 65, No. 1, Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies (Winter 1998), pp. 62-86.
• Albrecht Koschnik. The Democratic Societies of Philadelphia and the Limits of the American Public Sphere, circa 1793-1795. William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Jul., 2001), pp. 615-636.