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1794
 
   
George Washington uses military force to assert government authority on rebels in Pennsylvania refusing to pay a federal tax on whisky      
1794
 
   
Virtuoso violinist Nicolo Paganini gives his first public performances, in churches in his native Genoa      
1794
 
     
William Blake's volume Songs of Innocence and Experience includes his poem 'Tyger! Tyger! burning bright'        
William Blake, by Thomas Phillips, 1807
National Portrait Gallery, London

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c. 1795
 
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Dutch Boers begin calling themselves Afrikaners, to emphasize that Africa is their native land      
1795
 
   
Beethoven makes his first public appearance in Vienna as a pianist, playing either his first or second piano concerto      
1795
 
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Mungo Park sets off on his first expedition to explore the Niger on behalf of the African Association      
1795
 
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Two extra stars are added to the American flag for Vermont and Kentucky, two new states that have joined since the original union of thirteen      
1795
 
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The Netherlands, forced by invasion into the French camp, is transformed into the Batavian republic     
1795
 
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Indian tribes, at peace talks in Fort Greenville, cede much of Ohio to the USA       
1795
 
    
Thomas Paine publishes his completed Age of Reason, an attack on conventional Christianity