In history, year 1796 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1796.
Top Historical Events of the Year 1796 ⚡:
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 04 april | French naturalist Georges Cuvier delivered a lecture at the National Museum of Natural History on living and fossil remains of elephants and related species, founding the science of paleontology. |
| 14 may | English physician Edward Jenner began testing cowpox as avaccine against smallpox. |
| 04 august | French Revolutionary Wars-The French Army of Italy underNapoleon crushed an Austrian brigade in the Battle of Lonato. |
| 07 september | French Revolutionary Wars-The French defeated Austrian forcesin Bassano, Venetia, present-day Italy. |
| 17 november | French Revolutionary Wars-French forces defeated the Austriansat the Battle of the Bridge of Arcole in a manoeuvre to cut the latter'sline of retreat. |
| 10 May | Napoleon defeated Austria in the Battle of Lodi Bridge. |
| 03 November | John Adams was elected President of the United States. |
| 04 December | Bajirao II was appointed Peshwa. |
| 16 January | The first Dutch and general) elections were held for the National Assembly of the Batvian Republic, the next Dutch general election held in 1888). |
| 16 February | Great Britain was granted control of Ceylon by the Dutch. |
| 09 March | The widow Josephine de Beauharnais married General Napoleon Bonaparte. |
| 12 April | First Alliance War - Battle of Monnet: Napoleon Bonaparte won his first victory as an army commander. |
| 14 May | In England, Edward Jenner first vaccinated smallpox. |
| 21 June | British explorer Mungo Park became the first European to reach the Niger River. |
| 21 July | Mungo Park reached Segou, the capital of the Bamna Empire. |
| 04 August | French Revolutionary War - Battle of Lonana: Italy's French army under Napoleon crushed an Austrian brigade. |
| 28 September | Queen Catherine the Great signed an agreement with Great Britain, formally joining Russia in the alliance. |
| 05 October | Spain declared war on England. |
| 03 November | John Adams defeated Thomas Jefferson in the US presidential election. |
| 03 December | Baji Rao II was made the Peshwa of the Maratha Empire. He was the last Peshwa of the Maratha Empire. |
Famous birthdays in the year 1796:
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 February | Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich / Poet / Switzerland |
| 03 May | William H. Prescott / Historian / United States of America |
| 06 February | John Stevens Henslow / Botanist / United Kingdom |
| 09 October | Joseph Bonomi the Younger / Sculptor / Britain |
| 11 February | Giovanni Pacini / Educator / Italy |
| 12 April | George N. Briggs / Politician / United States of America |
| 14 June | Nikolai Brashman / Academic / Russia |
| 15 July | Thomas Bulfinch / Mythologist / United States of America |
| 16 July | Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot / Painter / France |
| 17 February | Philipp Franz von Siebold / Physician / Germany |
| 17 December | Thomas Chandler Haliburton / Politician / Canada |
| 19 December | Manuel Bretón de los Herreros / Poet / Spain |
| 22 February | Alexis Bachelot / Priest / France |
| 24 March | John Corry Wilson Daly / Politician / Canada |
| 26 July | George Catlin / Author / United States of America |
| 26 June | Jan Paweł Lelewel / Painter / Poland |
| 28 July | Ignaz Bösendorfer / Business Man / Austria |
| 29 December | Johann Christian Poggendorff / Journalist / Germany |
| 30 November | Carl Loewe / Singer / Germany |
| 31 July | Jean-Gaspard Deburau / Actor / France |