1796

	Cp	17th century
	C	18th century
	Cf	19th century
	Yp1	1793
	Yp2	1794
	Yp3	1795
	Year	1796
	Ya1	1797
	Ya2	1798
	Ya3	1799
	Dp3	1760s
	Dp2	1770s
	Dp1	1780s
	D	1790s
	Dn1	1800s
	Dn2	1810s
	Dn3	1820s

1796 was a Leap Year Starting On Friday . (see link for calendar)

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 Shakespear ean play of ''Vortigern and Rowena'' (actually written by William Henry Ireland ) ends into audience's laughter

wins a decisive victory against Austria n 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.

- French forces defeat Austria n 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 .

- French forces defeat the Austria ns 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 .

Ongoing events

French Revolution ( 1789 - 1799 )

French Revolutionary Wars ( 1792 - 1802 )- First Coalition

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.

BIRTHS