1795 in France

Incumbents

• The Committee of Public Safety
• The National Convention
• The French Directory

Events

January to June

• 16 January – France occupies Utrecht, Netherlands.
• 17 January – Revolution breaks out in Amsterdam.
• 18 January – William V, Prince of Orange, flees the Dutch Republic for exile at Kew.
• 19 January – The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands.
• 20 January – French troops enter Amsterdam.
• 21 January – Dutch fleet in IJsselmeer is captured by France.
• 29 January – Chouans attack the Republican held town of Guémené.
• 17 February – Peace made with Chouans after their defeat.
• 13–14 March – Battle of Genoa, British-Neapolitan victory over French fleet.
• 5 April – The Peace of Basel is signed, between France and Prussia.
• 7 April – France adopts the metre as the unit of length.
• 23 April – Sweden becomes the first monarchy to recognize the French Republic – Swedish ambassador introduced into the French Convention.
• 16 May – Treaty of The Hague signed between French Republic and the Batavian Republic ceding territory to France.
• 31 May – French Revolution: Revolutionary Tribunal suppressed.
• 7 June – Siege of Luxembourg ends with surrender of fortress by Austrian forces to the French.
• 8 June – Dauphin, would-be-Louis XVII dies. Louis XVIII becomes titular king of France.
• 17 June – First Battle of Groix, British naval victory over France.
• 23 June – Battle of Groix, British naval victory over France.
• 26 June – Hostilities resume after Royalist émigré force lands at Carnac.
• 27 June
• *French troops recapture St. Lucia.
• *British forces land off Quiberon, to aid the revolt in Brittany.
• 28 June – The French government announces that the heir to the French throne has died of illness.

July to December

• 13 July – Battle of the Hyères Islands, British–Neapolitan victory over French fleet.
• 15 July – The Marseillaise officially adopted as French national anthem.
• 21 July – Émigré force is defeated during the assault on Quiberon.
• 22 July – The Second Treaty of Basel is signed between the French First Republic and Spain, ending the War of the Pyrenees. Spain cedes its half of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola to France.
• 22 August – Constitution of the Year III enacted, establishing the Directory.
• 25 August – Battle of Trincomalee: British forces capture Trincomalee in Ceylon.
• 28 August - The Third Treaty of Basel is signed, between the French First Republic and the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel.
• 15 September -French Revolutionary Wars - Invasion of the Cape Colony: British forces capture Cape Town in the Dutch Cape Colony, to use its strategic facilities against the French Navy.
• 25 September - Royalist defeat at Saint-Cyr.
• 28 September – The Alliance of St Petersburg formed between Britain, Russia and Austria against France.
• 1 October - Austrian Netherlands annexed to the French Republic as the Belgian departments.
• 2 October – British forces capture Ile d'Yeu, off the coast of Brittany.
• 5 October – 13 Vendémiaire, battle between French Revolutionary troops and Royalist forces in the streets of Paris, resulting in defeat of Royalist insurrection.
• 29 October – Battle of Mainz, Austrian victory over French forces.
• 2 November – French Revolution: The French Directory takes power; the influence of the Sans-culottes declines.

Ongoing

• French Revolution
• French Revolutionary Wars
• War of the First Coalition

Births

• 6 January – Anselme Payen, chemist
• 5 May – Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave, dermatologist
• 10 July – Jean-Baptiste Guimet, industrial chemist
• 30 August – Amable Tastu, femme de lettres
• 6 September – Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers, Marshal of France and politician
• Full date unknown – Philippe Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant, astronomer

Deaths

• 30 April – Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, writer and numismatist
• 7 May – Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, lawyer and revolutionary leader
• 1 June – Pierre-Joseph Desault, anatomist and surgeon
• 8 June – Louis XVII, former dauphin and pretender King
• 17 June – Gilbert Romme, politician and mathematician
• 18 June – Marie Marguerite Bihéron, anatomist
• 3 July – Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, historian
• 27 July – Louis Grégoire Deschamps Destournelles, politician
• 31 August – François-André Danican Philidor, chess player and composer
• 15 November – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, painter