1796

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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).

1 Events of 1796
2 Births
3 Deaths
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[edit] Events of 1796

[edit] January - June

January 16 - First Dutch (and general) elections for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. The next Dutch general elections were 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 9: 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 Shakespearean 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.
April 27 - The Case of the Lyons Mail: during the night of April 27, five 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.
- Battle of Lodi. Engagement in the War of the First Coalition. Gen. 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 - Last mock Garrat Elections in Surrey, England.
June 1 - Tennessee is admitted as the 16th U.S. state.

[edit] 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 14 - The de Portolá Expedition sets out from San Diego (now San Diego, California) to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California).
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 10 - The de Portolá Expedition returns from its terminus point (now Menlo Park, California) to San Diego after failing to find Vizcaíno's Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California).
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.

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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.

[edit] Ongoing events

French Revolution (1789-1799).
French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-First Coalition.

[edit] Births

**1796 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1796 MDCCXCVI
Ab urbe condita	2549
Armenian calendar	1245 ԹՎ ՌՄԽԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-48 – -47
Berber calendar	2746
Buddhist calendar	2340
Burmese calendar	1158
Chinese calendar	4432/4492-11-22 (乙卯年十一月廿二日) — to — 4433/4493-12-3 (丙辰年十二月初三日)
Coptic calendar	1512 – 1513
Ethiopian calendar	1788 – 1789
Hebrew calendar	5556 – 5557
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1851 – 1852
- 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
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