1796

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1793 1794 1795 - 1796 - 1797 1798 1799\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century

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Table of contents

1 Events 1.1 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* Edward Jenner develops vaccination, using cowpox to protect against smallpox\n* February 1 - The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York\n* April 2 - The only night of would-be Shakespearean play of Vortigern and Rowena (actually written by William Henry Ireland)\n* 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.\n* 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.\n* May 14 - Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.\n* May 15 - Napoleon's troops take Milan\n* June 1 - Tennessee is admitted as the 16th U.S. state.\n* July 22 - Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.\n* September 8 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano - French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano.\n* November: John Adams defeats Thomas Jefferson in U.S. presidential election\n*November 4 - The Treaty of Tripoli (between the United States and Tripoli) is signed at Tripoli (see also 1797)\n* November 17 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Arcole - French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.\n* December 7 - U.S. Electoral College meets to elect John Adams president

• British government purchase a 40 acre site at Norman Cross the first purposely built prisoner of war camp in England at that time.\n* Mungo Park visits Segu kingdom

Ongoing events

\n* French Revolution (1789-1799)\n* French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-First Coalition

Births

\n*February 22 - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, mathematician (+ 1874)\n*May 1 - Junius Brutus Booth, English actor.\n*July 6 - Emperor Nicholas I of Russia\n*July 23 - Franz Berwald, composer\n*August 25 - James Lick, California land baron (+ 1876)\n*September 19 - Hartley Coleridge, British poet\n*October 23 - Stefano Franscini, member of the Swiss Federal Council (+1857)\n*November 30 - Carl Loewe, composer

Deaths

\n* February 23 - Jean-Nicolas Stofflet, French Revolution figure\n* July 21 - Robert Burns, Scots poet\n* November 17 - Catherine the Great of Russia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n