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May 10 :
Battle of Lodi , (
Musée de la Révolution française ).
1796 (
MDCCXCVI ) was a
leap year starting on Friday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
leap year starting on Tuesday of the
Julian calendar , the 1796th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 796th year of the
2nd millennium , the 96th year of the
18th century , and the 7th year of the
1790s decade. As of the start of 1796, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
April–June
April 2 – The only night of the supposed
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 26 – The French proclaim the
Republic of Alba on the occupied territories. Two days later, King
Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia signs the
Armistice of Cherasco , in the headquarters of Napoleon. The fortresses of
Coni ,
Tortoni and
Alessandria , with all their guns, are given up.
[4]
April 27 –
Case of the Lyons Mail : During the night, five highwaymen attack the mail between Paris and
Lyon , kill the postmen and steal the funds sent to the armies in Italy.
April 28 – In an impassioned speech, U.S. Representative
Fisher Ames of Massachusetts persuades his fellow members of the House to support the Jay Treaty.
[2]
May 6 – Napoleon Bonaparte forms an advanced guard (3,500 infantry and 1,500 cavalry) under General
Claude Dallemagne . He sends this force along the south bank of the
Po River , to cross it with boats at
Piacenza .
[5]
May 10
May 14 –
Edward Jenner administers the first
smallpox
vaccination , in England.
May 15 –
Napoleon 's troops take
Milan .
May 20 – The last mock
Garrat Elections are held in
Surrey , England.
June 1
June 6 –
7 – Ragunda lake in Sweden bursts and drains completely leaving the
Döda fallet dry.
June 21 – British explorer
Mungo Park becomes the first European to reach the
Niger River .
[1]
June 23 – Napoleon Bonaparte seizes the
Papal States , which become part of the revolutionary
Cisalpine Republic . Pope
Pius VI signs the
Armistice of Bologna , and is forced to pay a contribution (34 million francs).
July–September
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.
July 29 – The
Habsburg army under
Marshal Wurmser advances from the
Alps , and captures
Rivoli and
Verona . The French abandon the east bank of the
Mincio River , the outnumbered division (15,000 men) of
Masséna retreats towards
Lake Garda .
August 4 –
French Revolutionary Wars :
Battle of Lonato – The
French Army of Italy under Napoleon crushes an Austrian brigade.
August 5 –
French Revolutionary Wars :
Battle of Castiglione – The French Army of Italy under Napoleon defeats the Habsburg army (25,000 men) under Marshal Wurmser, who thus fails to break the
Siege of Mantua (1796–97) , and is forced to retreat north up the
Adige Valley .
August 9 – The
Wearmouth Bridge in England, designed by
Rowland Burdon in
cast iron , opens to traffic. Its span of 72 m (236 ft) makes it the world's longest single-span vehicular bridge extant at this date.
[6]
[7]
[8]
August 10 – A mob of peasants overtakes the
Convent of St. Peter (Bludenz, Austria) and murders
Ignaz Anton von Indermauer .
August 19 –
Second Treaty of San Ildefonso : Spain and France form an alliance against Great Britain.
September 2 –
Jewish emancipation in the
Batavian Republic (Netherlands).
September 8 –
French Revolutionary Wars :
Battle of Bassano – French forces (20,000 men) under
André Masséna defeat the Austrians in
Veneto . Wurmser retreats towards
Vicenza with just 3,500 men of his original 11,000 left to him.
September 9 –
French Revolutionary Wars :
Action of 9 September 1796 – A naval engagement between French and British squadrons off
Sumatra ends inconclusively.
September 15 –
Siege of Mantua : Napoleon Bonaparte fights a pitched battle at
La Favorita on the east side of the Mincio River. The Austrians withdraw into the fortress of
Mantua , which is crowded with nearly 30,000 men. Within six weeks, 4,000 die from wounds or sickness.
[9]
September 17 – U.S. President
George Washington issues his
Farewell Address , which warns against partisan politics and foreign entanglements. In addition, he sets a precedent by declining to run for a third term.
[2]
September 28 – Empress
Catherine the Great signs an agreement with Great Britain, formally joining Russia to the coalition.
October–December
November 17 :
Battle of Arcole
Date unknown
Births
Johann Baptist Streicher born
3 January
Julia Rush Cutler Ward born
5 January
Karl Ernst Claus born
23 January
Jean Reboul born
23 January
Nathaniel Jocelyn born
31 January
Erasmus Engert born
4 February
Léon Talabot born
5 February
John Stevens Henslow born
6 February
Marie-Françoise Perroton born
7 February
Valentín Carderera born
14 February
Pyotr Anjou born
15 February
Frederick William Beechey born
17 February
Gabriel Delafosse born
24 February
Carl Axel Gottlund born
24 February
Louis-Tancrède Bouthillier born
1 March
Orra White Hitchcock born
8 March
Peter Johnson Gulick born
12 March
Georgiana Astley born
16 March
Jakob Steiner born
18 March
Raymond Bonheur born
20 March
Laurent-Joseph-Marius Imbert born
23 March
Zulma Carraud born
24 March
Richard Biddle born
25 March
Jean-Claude Bonnefond born
27 March
Elijah Iles born
28 March
Theodor Brüggemann born
31 March
Date Chikamune born
9 April
Stanisław Jachowicz born
17 April
Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony born
27 April
Walter Henry Medhurst born
29 April
Junius Brutus Booth born
1 May
Arabella Sullivan born
1 May
Colm de Bhailís born
2 May
William H. Prescott born
4 May
Johann Baptist Isenring born
12 May
Vince Stingl born
23 May
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot born
1 June
Eugénie Foa born
10 June
Ang Duong born
12 June
Mary Grimstone born
12 June
Nikolai Brashman born
14 June
Mathilda d'Orozco born
14 June
Carlotta Marchionni born
14 June
Rafael Barišić born
24 June
Ernst Mayer born
24 June
Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg born
28 June
Michael Thonet born
2 July
Maria Martin born
6 July
María Josefa García Granados born
10 July
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot born
16 July
Franz Berwald born
23 July
Lizinska de Mirbel born
26 July
Eliza Henderson Boardman Otis born
27 July
Pavel Stroyev born
27 July
Pakubuwono VII born
28 July
Walter Hunt born
29 July
Mary Euphrasia Pelletier born
31 July
Michael Banim born
5 August
John Torrey born
15 August
Agnes Strickland born
19 August
Dhian Singh born
22 August
James Lick born
25 August
Joanna Quiner born
27 August
Sophia Smith (Smith College) born
27 August
William Hiley Bathurst born
28 August
James Apjohn born
1 September
Peter Fendi born
4 September
Sarah Preston Hale born
5 September
Uriel Crocker born
12 September
Hartley Coleridge born
19 September
Jonathan Smith Green born
29 September
Princess Frederica of Prussia, Duchess of Anhalt-Dessau born
30 September
Louise Swanton Belloc born
1 October
Cornelia Frances Jefferson born
1 October
Thomas T. Fauntleroy (soldier) born
6 October
Anders Retzius born
13 October
Date Narimune born
15 October
Leopold Kupelwieser born
17 October
Remexido born
19 October
Gottfried Osann born
26 October
Ottilie von Goethe born
31 October
Phan Thanh Giản born
11 November
Friederike Funk born
14 November
Henry Dangar born
18 November
Stephan Ludwig Roth born
24 November
Andreas von Ettingshausen born
25 November
Abdollah Mirza Qajar born
25 November
Emilie Zumsteeg born
9 December
George Storrs born
13 December
Lilburn Boggs born
14 December
Fernán Caballero born
25 December
Hugh Lee Pattinson born
25 December
Johann Christian Poggendorff born
29 December
January
January 1
January 3
January 4 –
Henry George Bohn , British publisher (d.
1884 )
January 5
January 7
January 8
January 9 –
Campbell Riddell , Australian public servant (d.
1858 )
January 10 –
Leonard Dupont , French naturalist (d.
1828 )
January 12 –
Paul Briquet , French physician (d.
1881 )
January 13 –
Charles Shore, 2nd Baron Teignmouth , member of the United Kingdom Parliament (d.
1885 )
January 15
January 16 –
Robert Carrington, 2nd Baron Carrington , English army officer and politician (d.
1847 )
January 17
January 18
January 19 –
Gaspare Grasselini , Catholic cardinal (d.
1875 )
January 20 –
Jacques-Marie-Adrien-Césaire Mathieu , French cardinal and author (d.
1875 )
January 21
January 22 –
Joseph Parkes , British politician (d.
1865 )
January 23
January 24 –
Nicolas Mori , British musician and publisher (d.
1839 )
January 25
January 28 –
Nathaniel W. Watkins , Confederate Army general (d.
1876 )
January 29
January 30
January 31
February
March
April
May
May 1
Junius Brutus Booth , English stage actor, father of
Edwin Booth and
John Wilkes Booth (d.
1852 )
Elial T. Foote , American physician, politician, jurist and historian (d.
1877 )
Alexandru II Ghica , Ruler of Wallachia (d.
1862 )
George Hussey Packe , MP, army officer, chairman of the Great Northern Railway (d.
1874 )
Arabella Sullivan , British author (d.
1839 )
Charles Cushing Wright , American engraver and medalist (d.
1857 )
May 2
May 3 –
Lewis Miller , American artist (d.
1882 )
May 4
May 5
May 6
May 7
May 8
May 9
May 10 –
Ludwig Greiner , Austrian businessman (d.
1882 )
May 12
May 14 –
Samuel Jaudon , American railroad executive (d.
1874 )
May 15
May 16 –
Ambrose Poynter , British architect (d.
1886 )
May 17
May 20
May 21
May 23
May 24
May 25
May 26
May 27
May 28
May 29 –
Jacob G. Davies , American politician (d.
1857 )
May 30
June
June 1
June 2 –
Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lafitte , French librettist (d.
1879 )
June 3 –
Dyer Ball , American missionary (d.
1866 )
June 5 –
Alexander W. Brewster , American merchant (d.
1851 )
June 6
June 9 –
Avery Skinner , American politician in New York (d.
1876 )
June 10
June 11 –
François-Louis Cailler , Swiss chocolatier (d.
1852 )
June 12
June 13 –
Charles Eloi Demarquet , French military officer (d.
1870 )
June 14
June 15 –
Joseph-Pierre Braemt , Belgian engraver and medalist (d.
1864 )
June 16 –
François Baucher , French squire (d.
1873 )
June 18
June 19
June 20
June 21
June 22 –
Nikolai Polevoy , Russian historian and writer (d.
1846 )
June 23
June 24
June 25 – Emperor
Nicholas I of Russia , Emperor of Russia (d.
1855 )
June 26
June 27
June 28
June 29
June 30
July
July 1
July 2
July 3 –
Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus , German philosopher (d.
1862 )
July 4 –
John Motley Morehead , American politician (d.
1866 )
July 5 –
Isaac Hays , American journalist (d.
1879 )
July 6
July 10
July 11 –
Carl Fredrik Liljevalch Sr. , Swedish businessman, entrepreneur and diplomat (d.
1870 )
July 12
July 13
July 14
July 15
July 16
July 18
July 19 –
Armand Malitourne , French literary critic (d.
1866 )
July 20
July 22 –
Carlo Pepoli , Italian politician, journalist, and poet (d.
1881 )
July 23 –
Franz Berwald , Swedish composer (d.
1868 )
July 24
July 25 –
Gideon Lane Soule , American educator, principal of Phillips Exeter Academy (d.
1879 )
July 26
July 27
July 28
July 29
July 30 –
Jules Vinçard , French humorist (d.
1879 )
July 31
August
September
October
November
December
December 2
December 3
December 5
December 6
December 7 –
Michel Charles Durieu de Maisonneuve , French botanist (d.
1878 )
December 8 –
Ferdinand Wolf , Romance philologist from Austria (d.
1866 )
December 9 –
Emilie Zumsteeg , German composer, music teacher, choir conductor, singer, pianist (d.
1857 )
December 10 –
John Burnet Biddulph , South African explorer (d.
1837 )
December 11
December 12 –
John Stephenson , canadian physician (d.
1842 )
December 13 –
George Storrs , American minister (d.
1879 )
December 14
December 15
December 17
December 18
December 19
December 20 –
Simon Meister , German painter (d.
1844 )
December 21 –
Tomasz Zan , Polish poet (d.
1855 )
December 22
December 24 –
Tytus Działyński , Polish politician (d.
1861 )
December 25
December 27
December 29
December 30 –
Miklós Wesselényi , Hungarian politician (d.
1850 )
Date unknown
Deaths
January–March
Samuel Huntington
William Chambers (architect)
January 1
January 5 –
Samuel Huntington , Connecticut jurist (b.
1731 )
January 5 –
Anna Barbara Reinhart , Swiss mathematician (b.
1730 )
January 13 –
John Anderson , Scottish scientist and inventor (b.
1726 )
February 7 –
Sir Francis Geary, 1st Baronet , officer of the British Royal Navy (b.
1709 )
February 14 –
Samuel Pegge , English antiquary (b.
1704 )
February 15 –
John Caesar Australian bushranger of African descent (b.
1763 )
February 17 –
James Macpherson , Scottish writer (b.
1736 )
February 25 –
Jean-Nicolas Stofflet , French royalist general (executed) (b.
1751 )
February 28 –
Friedrich Wilhelm Rust , German violinist (b.
1739 )
March 1 –
Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz , Swedish architect and civil servant (b.
1716 )
March 3 –
Pierre-René Rogue , French Catholic priest, member of the Congregation of the Mission (b.
1758 )
March 6 –
Guillaume Thomas François Raynal , French writer, man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment (b.
1713 )
March 10
March 12 –
Franz Töpsl , Augustinian Canon Regular (b.
1711 )
March 16 –
Joseph Gerrald , Scottish political reformer (b.
1763 )
March 19 –
Hugh Palliser , British naval officer, administrator (b.
1722 )
March 26 –
François de Charette , French Royalist soldier, politician (b.
1763 )
March 30 –
Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt (b.
1765 )
April–June
Ulrika Pasch
George Campbell
David Rittenhouse
Abraham Yates Jr.
April 2 –
Ulrika Pasch , Swedish rococo painter and miniaturist (b.
1735 )
April 6 –
George Campbell , Scottish minister (b.
1719 )
April 9 –
Frederick Albert, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg , German prince of the House of Ascania (b.
1735 )
April 11 –
François-Antoine Devaux , French writer (b.
1712 )
April 16 –
Molly Brant Mohawk
United Empire Loyalist (b. c.
1736 )
April 17 – Raja
Chamaraja Wodeyar IX of Mysore (b.
1774 )
April 30 –
Franciszka Corvin-Krasińska , Polish noblewoman, morganatic wife of Charles of Saxony (b.
1742 )
May 1 –
Alexandre Guy Pingré , Catholic priest and scientist (b.
1711 )
May 2 –
Juan García Ruiz , bishop of Nueva Segovia (1784–1796) (b.
1728 )
May 6 –
Adolph Freiherr Knigge , German writer, Freemason (b.
1752 )
May 12 –
Johann Uz , German poet (b.
1720 )
May 13 –
John Butler , Loyalist who led an irregular militia unit during the American Revolutionary War (b.
1728 )
May 17 –
Gotthard Friedrich Stender , Baltic-German Lutheran priest who played an outstanding role in Latvia's history of culture (b.
1714 )
May 28 –
Caroline of Stolberg-Gedern , Princess of Stolberg-Gerdern by birth and by marriage a princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (b.
1732 )
May 29 –
Carl Fredrik Pechlin , Swedish politician and
demagogue (b.
1720 )
June 7 –
Elisabetta Caminèr Turra , Venetian writer (b.
1751 )
June 8
June 9 –
José Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba , patron of the artist Francisco Goya (b.
1756 )
June 11
June 14
June 16
June 19 –
Consider Tiffany , British loyalist (b.
1732 )
June 21 –
Richard Gridley , American Revolutionary soldier (b.
1710 )
June 25 –
Johann Philipp Siebenkees , German philosopher (b.
1759 )
June 26 –
David Rittenhouse , American astronomer, inventor, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman and public official (b.
1732 )
June 28 –
Antonio Maria Lorgna , Italian mathematician (b.
1735 )
June 30 –
Abraham Yates Jr. , American lawyer, civil servant from Albany (b.
1724 )
July–September
Robert Burns
July 8
July 16
July 17 –
John Christopher Hartwick , Lutheran minister in Colonial America, founder of Hartwick College (b.
1714 )
July 20 –
John Houstoun , American lawyer, statesman from Savannah (b.
1744 )
July 21
August 1
August 2 –
Sarah Osborn , American writer (b.
1714 )
August 10 –
Ignaz Anton von Indermauer , Austrian nobleman from Tyrol, Landvögte and Kreishauptmann of Vorarlberg (b.
1759 )
August 12
August 25 –
Isaac Parsons , American planter (b.
1752 )
August 31 –
John McKinly , American physician, politician from Wilmington (b.
1721 )
September 1 –
David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield (b.
1727 )
September 7 –
Henri François Lambert , brigadier general of the French revolutionary army (b.
1760 )
September 11 –
Anna Barbara Gignoux , German industrialist (b.
1725 )
September 20
September 21 –
François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers , French revolutionary general (killed in battle) (b.
1769 )
September 27 –
Jonathan Sewall , last British attorney general of Massachusetts (b.
1729 )
September 29 –
Henry Hamilton , Anglo-Irish soldier, government official of the British Empire (b. c.
1734 )
October–December
Thomas Reid
Archibald Montgomerie, 11th Earl of Eglinton
October 7 –
Thomas Reid , religiously trained Scottish philosopher (b.
1710 )
October 10 –
Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (b.
1729 )
October 16
October 30 –
Archibald Montgomerie, 11th Earl of Eglinton , Scottish general (b.
1726 )
November 8 – King
Ang Eng of Cambodia (b.
1773 )
November 17 – Empress
Catherine II of Russia (b.
1729 )
[14]
November 19 –
Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath (b.
1734 )
December 2 –
Jean Charles Abbatucci , French general during the War of the First Coalition (b.
1771 )
December 5 –
George Mason V , American planter, businessman (b.
1753 )
December 10 –
Israel Jacobs , colonial Pennsylvania Legislator and United States Representative from Pennsylvania (b.
1726 )
December 12 –
William Buller , English clergyman (b.
1735 )
December 15 –
Anthony Wayne ,
United States Army officer, statesman, and member of the
United States House of Representatives (b.
1745 )
December 16 –
Johann Daniel Titius , German astronomer, professor at Wittenberg (b.
1729 )
December 18 –
Lord John Cavendish , British nobleman, statesman (b.
1732 )
December 19 –
Pyotr Rumyantsev , Russian general (b.
1725 )
December 25
December 28 –
Prince Louis Charles of Prussia , son of Frederick William II of Prussia and Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt (b.
1773 )
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