1796

Year 1796 (''' MDCCXCVI ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ).

EVENTS OF 1796

January - June

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 .

: Joséphine & Napoléon .]]

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 Shakespeare an play of '' Vortigern And Rowena '' (actually written by William Henry Ireland ) ends in audience's laughter.

April 12 - Battle Of Montenotte . Engagement in the War of the First Coalition . Napoleon Bonaparte 's first victory as an army commander.

, five highwaymen attack the mail between Paris and Lyon , kill the postmen, and steal the funds sent to the armies in Italy .

May 10

---n troops storm Derbent .

--- Battle Of Lodi . Engagement in the War of the First Coalition . Gen. Napoleon Bonaparte defeats Austria n rearguard in forcing a crossing of the bridge over the River Adda in Italy . The Austrians lose some 2,000 men, 14 guns, and 30 ammunition wagons.

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 - December

July 10 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three Triangular Numbers .

July 11 - The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under the 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 .

Undated

The Ron Santa Teresa distillery is established in Venezuela .

British government purchase a 40 acre (162,000 m&²) 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 .

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 )

June 14 - Nikolai Brashman , Russian mathematician of Czech origin (d. 1866 )

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 22 - Davi Canabarro , Gaúcho rebel revolucionary (d. 1867 )

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 )

: ''See also .''

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 )

: ''See also .''

EXTERNAL LINKS

Chronology of 1796, mainly relating to Napoleon's campaign in Italy

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