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1796

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Years:
1793 1794 1795 - 1796 - 1797 1798 1799

Decades:
1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s

Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century

1796 in topic:
Arts
Art - Architecture - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada - Mexico - Science
Lists of leaders
Colonial governors - State leaders
Birth and death categories
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1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. (see link for calendar)

1 Events
- 1.1 Ongoing events
- 1.2 Fictional events
2 Births
3 Deaths

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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.

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Ongoing events

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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.

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