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Months in Year 1796: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Results 1 - 40 of 40

Jan 23rd - Armand-Gaston Camus becomes chairman of Council of 500
Feb 1st - The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
Feb 29th - Jay's Treaty proclaimed, settles some differences with England
Mar 1st - 1st National Meeting in the Hague
Mar 9th - Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais
Mar 28th - Bethel African Methodist Church of Phila is 1st US-African church
Mar 31st - Johann Wolfgang von Goethes "Egmont," premieres in Weimar
Apr 13th - 1st elephant arrives in US from India
Apr 13th - Battle at Millesimo Italy: Napoleon beats Austrians
Apr 22nd - Napoleon defeats Piedmontese at Battle of Mondovi
Apr 28th - Cease fire of Cherasco
May 10th - French govt arrest 10 utopists
May 10th - Napoleon defeats Austria in Battle of Lodi Bridge
May 10th - Riot after disagreement of patriotic demand in Amsterdam
May 14th - 1st smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner
May 15th - France & Sardinia sign Peace treaty of Paris
May 15th - French troops occupy Milan
May 15th - First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph.
May 16th - Lombardije Republic forms
May 19th - Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds
May 27th - James S McLean patents his piano
Jun 1st - Last of Britain's troops withdraws from US
Jun 1st - Tennessee admitted as 16th US state
Jul 4th - 1st Independence Day celebration is held
Jul 8th - US State Dept issues 1st American passport
Jul 10th - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.
Jul 22nd - Cleveland, Ohio, founded by Gen Moses Cleveland
Aug 8th - Boston African Society establishes with 44 members
Aug 17th - English beat Bataafs navy in Saldanha Bay
Aug 19th - Spain & France sign anti-English alliance
Aug 23rd - African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated
Sep 2nd - Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated
Sep 5th - General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna Italy
Sep 8th - Battle of Bassano-French beat Austrians
Sep 17th - Pres George Washington delivers his farewell address
Sep 19th - George Washington's farewell address as president
Oct 5th - Spain declares war on England
Nov 3rd - John Adams elected president
Nov 17th - Battle of Arcole-Napolean I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy
Dec 18th - 1st US newspaper to appear on Sunday (Baltimore Monitor)

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 55 of 55

Jan 7th - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (d. 1817)
Jan 21st - John Gelinde van Blom, Frisian notary/author
Jan 22nd - Karl Claus, Russian chemist (d. 1864)
Jan 25th - William McGillivray, Old Aberdeen, naturalist
Feb 1st - Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (d. 1865)
Feb 17th - Giovanni Pacini, composer
Feb 17th - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (d. 1866)
Feb 20th - Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch military/liberal politician
Feb 22nd - Adolphe Quetelet, Belgium, mathematician/astronomer/statistician
Feb 22nd - Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1837)
Feb 29th - [Lambert] Adolphe J Quetelet, Belgian astronomer/meteorology
Mar 24th - John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (d. 1878)
Apr 10th - James Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (d. 1836)
Apr 12th - George N. Briggs, 19th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1861)
Apr 24th - K L Immermann, writer
Apr 26th - Auguste-Matthieu Panseron, composer
May 4th - Horace Mann, US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools)
May 4th - Joseph Pannell Taylor, Brig General (Union Army), died in 1864
May 4th - William H. Prescott, American historian (d. 1859)
May 9th - August Pauly, German classicus (Real Encyclopedia)
May 17th - Martinus J Niewindt, bishop of Curacao (christen slaves)
May 21st - Reverdy Johnson, rep (Union), died in 1876
Jun 1st - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (d. 1832)
Jun 14th - Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (d. 1866)
Jun 22nd - Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher (Sotsjinenija) [OS]
Jun 25th - Ferdinando Giorgetti, composer
Jul 3rd - Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher (Sotsjinenija) [NS]
Jul 6th - Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55)
Jul 15th - Thomas Bulfinch, mythologist (Bulfinch's Mythology)
Jul 16th - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, painter
Jul 18th - Feargus O'Connor, County Cork, leader of English Chartists
Jul 20th - Edward Hodges, composer
Jul 23rd - Franz Adolf Berwald, Sweden, composer
Jul 24th - Herman van Sonsbeeck, Dutch lawyer/statesman
Jul 24th - John Middleton Clayton, Delaware, (Sen-Del)/US Sec of State (1849-50)
Jul 26th - George Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes)
Jul 28th - Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian musician (d. 1859)
Aug 25th - James Lick, American land baron (d. 1876)
Sep 19th - Hartley Coleridge, English poet (d. 1849)
Sep 22nd - Ret Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1880
Sep 25th - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)
Oct 4th - John Richardson, Canadian writer (Wacousta, or the prophecy)
Oct 9th - Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878)
Oct 14th - Adolf Ganz, composer
Oct 23rd - Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1857)
Oct 24th - August v Platen, writer
Nov 6th - George Back, English sea officer/explorer (North Canada)
Nov 14th - Carlo Conti, composer
Nov 19th - Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer
Nov 30th - Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer
Dec 9th - Prudent-Louis Aubery du Boulley, composer
Dec 17th - Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian novelist (d. 1865)
Dec 19th - Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Quel Spain, poet/comic playwright
Dec 27th - Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (d. 1869)
Dec 29th - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (d. 1877)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 35 of 35

Jan 1st - Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, French mathematician (b. 1735)
Jan 5th - Samuel Huntington, US judge (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 64
Jan 8th - Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, Fren Nat Convention chairman, dies at 46
Jan 13th - John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726)
Jan 22nd - Bernhard Hupfeld, composer, dies at 78
Feb 17th - James Macpherson, poet, dies
Feb 28th - Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 56
Mar 6th - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (b. 1713)
Mar 17th - Pieter Paulus, lawyer/Dutch CEO (National Convention), dies at 41
Mar 19th - Stephen Storace, composer, dies at 33
Mar 19th - Hugh Palliser, British naval officer and administrator (b. 1722)
Mar 22nd - Gaspare Gabellone, composer, dies at 68
Apr 18th - Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (b. 1732)
May 12th - Johann P Uz, German poet (Theodicee), dies at 75
May 17th - Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89
May 29th - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (b. 1720)
Jun 8th - Felice de Giardini, composer, dies at 80
Jun 11th - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician (b. 1720)
Jun 30th - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
Jul 16th - George Howard, British field marshal (b. 1718)
Jul 21st - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (Auld Lang Syne), dies at 37
Jul 30th - Nicolas the Pigage, French classical architect, dies
Aug 1st - Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)
Aug 21st - John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)
Sep 21st - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (b. 1769)
Sep 22nd - George Wilhelm Gruber, composer, dies on 67th birthday
Sep 22nd - Joseph Lederer, composer, dies at 63
Oct 7th - Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710)
Oct 16th - Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)
Oct 27th - Anton Thadaus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz, composer, dies at 45
Nov 6th - Catherine II of Russia (b. 1729)
Nov 7th - Catharina II, "the Great", tsarina of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67
Nov 17th - Catharina II the Great, empress of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67
Nov 18th - Catharina II, "The Great", tsarina of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67
Dec 30th - Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne, composer, dies at 45