Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift.

Historical Events in September 1795

  • Sep 5 USA and Algiers sign peace treaty

Lyrical Ballads

Sep 15 "Lyrical Ballads" published by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth - 1st work of English Romantic movement (probable date)

  • Sep 15 Dutch East India controlled Cape Colony (present day South Africa) surrenders to Britain
  • Sep 16 British capture Capetown, South Africa, from the Dutch
  • Sep 19 Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned
  • Sep 23 Conseil of the Cinq-Cents (Council of 500), forms in Paris