Events January–June January – Central England records its coldest ever month, in the CET records dating back to 1659. January 14 – The University of North Carolina opens to students at Chapel Hill, becoming the first state university in the United States. January 16 – War of the First Coalition: Flanders campaign: The French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands. January 18 – Batavian Revolution in Amsterdam: William V, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic (Republic of the Seven United Netherlands), flees the country. January 19 – The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in Amsterdam, ending the Dutch Republic (Republic of the Seven United Netherlands). January 20 – French troops enter Amsterdam. January 23 – Flanders campaign: Capture of the Dutch fleet at Den Helder: The Dutch fleet, frozen in Zuiderzee, is captured by the French 8th Hussars. February 7 – The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed. March – English Benedictine monks expelled from Douai are permitted to proceed to England. March 13–14 – War of the First Coalition Battle of Genoa: The British and Neapolitan fleets are victorious over the French. April 5 – The Peace of Basel is signed, between France and Prussia. April 7 – The metric system is adopted in France. April 8 – George, Prince of Wales, marries Caroline of Brunswick. April 23 Former Governor-General of India Warren Hastings is acquitted by the British House of Lords of misconduct. Sweden becomes the first monarchy to recognize the French Republic - Swedish ambassador introduced into the French Convention. May 1 – Unification of Hawai‘i: Battle of Nuʻuanu: 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. May 31 – French Revolution: Revolutionary Tribunal suppressed. May–June – The Battle of Richmond Hill is fought in the colony of New South Wales, between the Darug people and British colonial forces. June 5–7 – The Copenhagen Fire of 1795, starting in a naval warehouse, destroys 941 houses. June 8 – The Dauphin of France, would-be-Louis XVII, dies. Louis XVIII becomes titular King of France (he becomes the actual king on April 6, 1814). June 16–17 – War of the First Coalition – Cornwallis's Retreat: A British Royal Navy battle squadron commanded by William Cornwallis fends off a numerically superior French Navy fleet, off the coast of Brittany. June 24