Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1796. 1796 (MDCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday...

elections were held in the United States from November 4 to December 7, 1796, when electors throughout the United States cast their ballots. It was the...

The 1796–97 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification...

The Persian expedition of Catherine the Great in 1796, like the Persian expedition of Peter the Great (1722–1723), was one of the Russo-Persian Wars of...

The Pattern 1796 British infantry officer's sword was carried by officers of the line infantry in the British Army between 1796 and the time of its official...

Royal Navy gave to the French Navy's corvette Unité after Unité's capture in 1796. Unité was launched on 16 January 1794. Surprise gained fame in 1799 for...

The Pattern 1796 heavy cavalry sword was the sword used by the British heavy cavalry (Lifeguards, Royal Horse Guards, Dragoon Guards and Dragoons), and...

The Italian campaign of 1796–1797 (Italian: Campagna d'Italia), also known as the First Italian Campaign, was a series of military operations in Italy...

In the Battle of Bassano on 8 September 1796, Napoleon Bonaparte and his French Army of Italy routed an Austrian army led by Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser...

The period from 1796 to 1855 in Russian history (covering the reigns of Paul I, Alexander I and Nicholas I) saw the Napoleonic Wars, government reform...

The following lists events that happened during 1796 in Australia. Monarch - George III Governor of New South Wales – John Hunter Lieutenant-Governor of...

George Washington and was elected as the United States' second president in 1796. He was the only president elected under the banner of the Federalist Party...

The Panic of 1796–1797 was a series of downturns in credit markets in both Great Britain and the newly established United States in 1796 that led to broader...

Samuel Seabury (November 30, 1729 – February 25, 1796) was the first American Episcopal bishop, the second Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in...

Ukraine. From 1765 to 1780 and from 1796 to 1835 the governorate was called Sloboda Ukraine Governorate. In 1780–1796 there existed the Kharkov Vicegerency (Ukrainian:...

May 1729 – 17 November 1796), most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She came to power after...

Events from the year 1796 in Canada. Monarch: George III Parliament of Lower Canada: 1st (until May 31) Parliament of Upper Canada: 1st (until June 3)...

from the navy in 1804 and hulked in 1806. In the night of 13 to 14 November 1796, Étonnante departed Le Havre with her sister-ship Etna, and was chased by...

The 1796 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place between November 4 and December 7, 1796, as part of the 1796 United States presidential...

6 5 Lodi 4 3 2 1    During the siege of Mantua, which lasted from 4 June 1796 to 2 February 1797 with a short break, French forces under the overall command...

The year 1796 in science and technology involved some significant events. Pierre-Simon Laplace publishes Exposition du système du monde, his work on astronomy...

further political aspirations, Catherine waged a new war against Persia in 1796 after they had again invaded Georgia and established rule over it about a...

MPs elected in the 1796 British general election This is a list of the 558 MPs or members of Parliament elected to the 314 constituencies of the Parliament...

Princess Frederica of Prussia (30 September 1796 – 1 January 1850) was a daughter of Prince Louis Charles of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz...

Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (7 January 1796 – 6 November 1817) was the only child of George, Prince of Wales (later George IV), and Caroline of...

James Watson (1748–1796) was an English politician who was Member of Parliament for Bridport from 1790 to 1795. "WATSON, James (1748-96), of Powis Place...

The 1796–97 United States House of Representatives elections took place in the various states took place between August 12, 1796 (in North Carolina), and...

of Egypt (1800–1796 BC) Nerikare, Thirteenth Dynasty Pharaoh of Egypt (1796 BC) Sekhemkare, Thirteenth Dynasty Pharaoh of Egypt (1796–1793 BC) Ameny Qemau...

From Newgate to Dannemora: The Rise of the Penitentiary in New York, 1796–1848 is a book-length history chronicling the origins and early expansion of...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1796. Samuel Ireland publishes a collection of Shakespearean forgeries in his...