1796
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1760s 1770s 1780s – 1790s – 1800s 1810s 1820s |
| Years: | 1793 1794 1795 – 1796 – 1797 1798 1799 |
| 1796 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science |
| Countries: |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
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).
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Events of 1796
January–June
- January 16 – The first Dutch (and general) elections are held for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic (the next Dutch general elections are held in 1888).
- 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 obtains conditions for the constructibility by ruler and compass of regular polygons, and is able to announce that the regular 17-gon is constructible by ruler and compasses.
- April 2 – The only night of the would-be Shakespearean play Vortigern and Rowena (actually written by William Henry Ireland) ends in the audience's laughter.
- April 12 – War of the First Coalition – Battle of Montenotte: Napoleon Bonaparte gains his first victory as an army commander.
- April 27 – Case of the Lyons Mail: During the night of April 27, 5 highwaymen attack the mail between Paris and Lyon, kill the postmen, and steal the funds sent to the armies in Italy.
- May 10
- Persian Expedition of 1796: Russian troops storm Derbent.
- War of the First Coalition – Battle of Lodi: General Napoleon Bonaparte defeats Austrian 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 – The last mock Garrat Elections are held in Surrey, England.
- June 1 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th U.S. state.
July–December
- July 10 – Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most 3 triangular numbers.
- July 11 – The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under the terms of the Jay Treaty.
- July 21 – Mungo Park reaches Ségou, the capital of the Bamana Empire.
- 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.
- September 17 – U.S. President George Washington issues his Farewell Address, which warns against partisan politics and foreign entanglements.
- November 3: 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 – The U.S. Electoral College meets to elect John Adams president.
Undated
- Jane Austen writes her first draft of Pride and Prejudice, under the name First Impressions. The book's release will only be in 1813.
- The British government purchases a 40-acre (162,000 m²) site at Norman Cross (the first purposely built prisoner of war camp in Britain at that time).
- The British seize Ceylon from the Dutch.
- Annual British iron production reaches 125,000 tons.
- Spanish government lifts the restrictions against neutrals trading with the colonies, thus acknowledging Spain's inability to supply the colonies with needed goods and markets.
Ongoing events
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1796 MDCCXCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2549 |
| Armenian calendar | 1245 ԹՎ ՌՄԽԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -48 – -47 |
| Bengali calendar | 1203 |
| Berber calendar | 2746 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2340 |
| Burmese calendar | 1158 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7304 – 7305 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙卯年十一月廿二日 (4432/4492-11-22) — to —
丙辰年十二月初三日(4433/4493-12-3) |
| Coptic calendar | 1512 – 1513 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1788 – 1789 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5556 – 5557 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1852 – 1853 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1718 – 1719 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4897 – 4898 |
| Holocene calendar | 11796 |
| Iranian calendar | 1174 – 1175 |
| Islamic calendar | 1210 – 1211 |
| Japanese calendar | Kansei 8 (寛政8年) |
| Korean calendar | 4129 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2339 |
- 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 revolutionary (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)
- December 17 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian author (d. 1865)
- December 19 – Breton de los Herreros Spanish playwright (d. 1873)
- December 27 – Mirza Ghalib, Poet of Urdu (d. 1869)
- See also Category: 1796 births.
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 26 – David Rittenhouse, American astronomer, inventor, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman, and public official. (b. 1732)
- 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 revolutionary 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 Category: 1796 deaths.