1795
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Events
- Slave revolt on Grenada
Timeline
- April 23: Trial of Warren Hastings in the British House of Lords finally ends. THis will be last day of the last impeachment trial in British history.
- June: Protests as the "Gagging Acts" draw a crowd of 150,000 to 200,000 English in St. George's Fields in Southwark in June 1795
- October 25: Rumors that the British King had been fired upon, perhaps by an air rifle proved to nothing more than a pebble thrown at his carriage in St. Margaret's Street. The government had been busy concocting what became known as the "Pop-Gun Plot," an imaginary conspiracy to assassinate the King with an air gun firing a poison arrow. Conservatives will believe anything that suits them.
- November: Protests as the "Gagging Acts" draw a crowd of 150,000 to 200,000 English at Copenhagen House in Islington.