1796

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s

Years: 1791 1792 1793 1794 1795 - 1796 - 1797 1798 1799 1800 1801

• Edward Jenner develops vaccination, using cowpox to protect against smallpox
• February 1 - The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark[?] to York
• May 10 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France wins a decisive victory against Austrian 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.
• June 1 - Tennessee is admitted as the 16th U.S. state.
• November: John Adams defeats Thomas Jefferson in U.S. presidential election
• 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.

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1796 in literature:

Births

• February 22 - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, mathematician (+ 1874)
• July 6 - Emperor Nicholas I of Russia
• September 19 - Hartley Coleridge[?], British poet
• November 30 - Carl Loewe, composer

Deaths

• July 21 - Robert Burns, Scots poet
• November 17 - Catherine the Great of Russia