1796 Calendar
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1796 Historical Event(s)
March 9, 1796
– Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
April 13, 1796
– The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.
May 10, 1796
– First Coalition: Napoleon I of France wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the Adda River in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
May 15, 1796
– First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph.
June 1, 1796
– Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
July 11, 1796
– The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
July 22, 1796
– Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio “Cleveland” after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
September 19, 1796
– George Washington’s farewell address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
November 17, 1796
– Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Arcole – French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.
December 19, 1796
– French Revolutionary Wars: Two British frigates under Commodore Horatio Nelson and two Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart engage in battle off the coast of Murcia.
Who Were Born On 1796?
January 22, 1796
– Karl Claus, Russian chemist (d. 1864)
January 25, 1796
– William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1852)
May 4, 1796
– William H. Prescott, American historian (d. 1859)
June 20, 1796
– Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso, Italian cardinal (d. 1878)
July 6, 1796
– Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1855)
July 23, 1796
– Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (d. 1868)
July 28, 1796
– Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian piano manufacturer (d. 1859)
August 25, 1796
– James Lick, American land baron (d. 1876)
September 19, 1796
– Hartley Coleridge, English poet (d. 1849)
December 29, 1796
– Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (d. 1877)