Timeline April 1795

Events in April 1795 3

• 1795 Treaty of Basel between Prussia and France Prussia withdraws from the War of the First Coalition Prussia signed a separate peace with revolutionary France at Basel, ending its participation in the War of the First Coalition. The treaty effectively ceded French-occupied German territory west of the Rhine and signaled the coalition's fracturing. It freed Prussia to focus on affairs in Poland.
• 1795 Metric system legally established in France French law defines the metre and the kilogram The National Convention passed a law fixing the metre and kilogram as France's official units of measurement, replacing a patchwork of regional standards. The system was designed to be based on natural, universal constants rather than royal decree. It later spread worldwide and remains the basis of the International System of Units.
• 1795 Warren Hastings acquitted Impeachment trial of the former Governor-General of India concludes The House of Lords acquitted Warren Hastings on all charges after a parliamentary impeachment trial that had lasted more than seven years. Hastings had been accused of corruption and abuse of power as Governor-General of Bengal. The trial, led by Edmund Burke, had become one of the most prominent political spectacles of the era.