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In the winter of 1794–1795 the armies of the French Republic overran the Dutch Republic, reforming the country into a sister republic named the Batavian Republic.The Dutch Republic was part of the Coalition against Republican France formed in the War of the First Coalition at the start of the French Revolutionary Wars, and their closest ally in Northern Europe was Great Britain. [3]
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 ...
The decree was passed, along with the constitution, on 5 fructidor an III (August 22, 1795). The decree and constitution were then each submitted to a plebiscite and approved on a low turnout, and adopted by the decree of 1st Vendémiaire, An IV (September 23, 1795), proclaiming the French people's acceptance of the constitution presented to ...
The Peace of Basel of 1795 consists of three peace treaties involving France during the French Revolution (represented by François de Barthélemy). [1] The first was with Prussia (represented by Karl August von Hardenberg) on 5 April; [2] The second was with Spain (represented by Domingo d'Yriarte) on 22 July, ending the War of the Pyrenees; and
The new Constitution of the Year III was presented to the Convention and debated between 4 July – 17 August 1795, and was formally adopted on 22 August 1795. It was a long document, with 377 articles, compared with 124 in the first French Constitution of 1793 .
4 June 1795 – 19 June 1795: Jean Denis, comte Lanjuinais: died in 1828 in Paris 19 June 1795 – 4 July 1795: Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray: 25 August 1797 4 July 1795 – 19 July 1795: Louis-Gustave Doulcet de Pontécoulant: 17 November 1764 – 3 April 1853 19 July 1795 – 3 August 1795: Louis-Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux: 24 March 1824
22 August: Marriage of Leopold, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne, and Marie Henriette of Austria. [151]: 389 1854: 27 February: Commercial treaty with France on tariffs, transit and navigation for five years. [153] 13 June: Partial legislative elections of 1854: 1855: 30 March: Pierre de Decker replaces Henri de Brouckère as Prime ...
With the Netherlands falling, Prussia also decided to leave the coalition, signing the Peace of Basel on 6 April, ceding the west bank of the Rhine to France. [2] This freed Prussia to finish the occupation of Poland. The French army in Spain advanced, advancing in Catalonia while taking Bilbao and Vitoria and marching toward Castile.