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