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Everything about 1796 totally explainedYear 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
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
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 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.
Undated
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.
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)
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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 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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