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1796

1796 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada - Mexico - Science

Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders

From Categories:
births - deaths

1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. (see link for calendar)

1796 - Events

January 16 - First Dutch (and general) elections for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. The next Dutch general elections were in 1917.
February 1 - The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York
February 9 - The Qianlong Emperor abdicates at age 84 to make way for his son, the Jiaqing Emperor.
March 9 - Widow Joséphine de Beauharnais marries General Napoléon Bonaparte.
March 30 - Carl Gauss obtained conditions for the constructibility by ruler and compass of regular polygons and was able to announce that the regular 17-gon was constructible by ruler and compasses.
April 2 - The only night of would-be Shakespearean play of Vortigern and Rowena (actually written by William Henry Ireland) ends into audience's laughter
May 10 - First Coalition: Gen. Napoleon Bonaparte wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the River Adda in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
May 14 -Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
May 15 - Napoleon's troops take Milan
May 20 - Last mock Garrat Elections in Surrey, England
June 1 - Tennessee is admitted as the 16th U.S. state.
July 11 - The U.S. takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
July 22 - Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
September 8 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano - French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano.
September 17 - U.S. President George Washington issues his Farewell Address, which warns against partisan politics and foreign entanglements.
November: John Adams defeats Thomas Jefferson in the U.S. presidential election
November 4 - The Treaty of Tripoli (between the United States and Tripoli) is signed at Tripoli (see also 1797)
November 6 Old Style - Catherine II of Russia called Catherine "The Great" dies and is succeeded by her son Paul I of Russia. His wife Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg becomes Empress consort.
November 17 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Arcole - French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.
December 7 - U.S. Electoral College meets to elect John Adams president

The Ron Santa Teresa distillery is established in Venezuela.
British government purchase a 40 acre (162,000 m²) site at Norman Cross the first purposely built prisoner of war camp in England at that time.
Mungo Park visits Segu kingdom
The British seize Ceylon from the Dutch.

1796 - Ongoing events

French Revolution (1789-1799)
French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-First Coalition

1796 - Births

January 25 - William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1852)
February 22 - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1874)
March 18 - Jakob Steiner, Swiss mathematician (d. 1863)
May 1 - Junius Brutus Booth, English actor (d. 1852)
May 4 - Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (d. 1859)
July 6 - Emperor Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1855)
July 16 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (d. 1875)
July 23 - Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (d. 1868)
August 15 - John Torrey, American botanist (d. 1873)
August 25 - James Lick, American land speculator (d. 1876)
September 19 - Hartley Coleridge, British poet (d. 1849)
September 25 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)
October 23 - Stefano Franscini, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1857)
November 30 - Carl Loewe, German composer (d. 1869)

1796 - Deaths

January 13 - John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726)
February 23 - Jean-Nicolas Stofflet, French royalist general (executed) (b. 1751)
March 6 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (b. 1713)
March 19 - Hugh Palliser, British naval officer and administrator (b. 1722)
May 12 - Johann Peter Uz, German poet (b. 1720)
May 29 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (b. 1720)
June 11 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician (b. 1720)
June 21 - Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1710)
June 30 - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
July 16 - George Howard, British field marshal (b. 1718)
July 21 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (b. 1759)
August 1 - Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)
August 21 - John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)
September 21 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French royalist general (killed in battle) (b. 1769)
October 7 - Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710)
November 6 - Catherine the Great of Russia (b, 1729)