1796

	Cp	17th century
	C	18th century
	Cf	19th century
	Yp1	1793
	Yp2	1794
	Yp3	1795
	Year	1796
	Ya1	1797
	Ya2	1798
	Ya3	1799
	Dp3	1760s
	Dp2	1770s
	Dp1	1780s
	D	1790s
	Dn1	1800s
	Dn2	1810s
	Dn3	1820s

1796 was a Leap Year Starting On Friday . (see link for calendar)

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 Shakespear ean play of ''Vortigern and Rowena'' (actually written by William Henry Ireland ) ends into audience's laughter

wins a decisive victory against Austria n 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.

- French forces defeat Austria n 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 .

- French forces defeat the Austria ns 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 .

Ongoing events

French Revolution ( 1789 - 1799 )

French Revolutionary Wars ( 1792 - 1802 )- First Coalition

Fictional events

In a chapter of the TV animated series The Simpsons Jeremiah Springfield with a group of colonists from Massachusetts founded the town of Springfield.

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 )

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 )

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