1796

Events

   * Edward Jenner develops vaccination, using cowpox to protect against
     smallpox
   * February 1 - The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York
   * 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.
   * 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.
   * July 22 - Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in
     Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the
     surveying party.
   * September 8 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Bassano - French forces defeat
     Austrian troops at Bassano.
   * 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.

Ongoing events

   * French Revolution (1789-1799)

Births

   * February 22 - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, mathematician (+ 1874)
   * July 6 - Emperor Nicholas I of Russia
   * August 25 - James Lick, California land baron (+ 1876)
   * 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

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