Timeline August 1795

Events in August 1795 3

• 1795 Jay Treaty ratified United States and Britain settle outstanding disputes The United States Senate ratified the Jay Treaty, resolving disputes left over from the Revolutionary War and averting a renewed conflict with Britain. President Washington signed it in August despite fierce domestic opposition. The treaty secured British withdrawal from frontier forts but was criticized for failing to address impressment of American sailors.
• 1795 Treaty of Greenville signed Native American confederacy cedes most of Ohio to the United States Representatives of the United States and a confederacy of Native American nations signed the Treaty of Greenville, ending the Northwest Indian War. The defeated tribes ceded most of present-day Ohio and parts of neighboring territories to the United States. The treaty opened the region to rapid American settlement in the following decades.
• 1795 French Constitution of the Year III adopted National Convention establishes the Directory The National Convention adopted a new constitution creating a five-member executive Directory and a bicameral legislature, ending the more radical governing arrangements of the Terror. The constitution restricted suffrage to property owners, reflecting a conservative turn in the Revolution. It would govern France until Napoleon Bonaparte's coup in 1799.