1795

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1795 was 76 years before the founding of the City of Birmingham and 24 years before Alabama became a state.

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Alexander Godwin
Zachariah Hagood, settler and planter

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In 1795, the French Revolution continued. The 11th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. The Kingdom of Hawaii was established.

Notable births in 1795 businessman and philanthropist Johns Hopkins; publisher James Gordon Bennett, Sr; poet John Keats; and President James K. Polk. Notable deaths included potter Josiah Wedgwood, frontiersman Robert Rogers, King Louis XVII of France, and British General Henry Clinton.

1790s