When did the Third Partition end the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?

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Map showing Poland's territory in 1634 under the reign of Wladyslaw IV Vasa, shaded in pink and spanning from the Baltic Sea in the north to near Kyiv in the southeast. Major present-day cities such as Warsaw, Krakow, Gdansk, Vilnius, Minsk, Lwow (Lviv), Pinsk, and Kyiv are marked within the territory, with surrounding cities like Moscow, Riga, Vienna, and Budapest shown for reference. — Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Poland's territory in 1634, during the reign of Władysław IV Vasa.

The Third Partition of Poland, which effectively ended the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, took place in 1795.1

Following the suppression of the national uprising led by Tadeusz Kościuszko, Russia, Prussia, and Austria concluded an agreement on October 24, 1795, to divide the remaining territories of the state. This final partition resulted in the abdication of King Stanisław August Poniatowski and the total elimination of the sovereign state of Poland from the map. While the territorial division was not formally settled until January 26, 1797, the 1795 agreement marked the end of the Commonwealth's existence as an independent political entity.21