* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )

* 1716 – Felice Giardini, Italian composer and violinist ( d. 1796 )

* 1796 – George N. Briggs, American politician, 19th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1861 )

* 1878 – John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician ( b. 1796 )

* 1720 – Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician ( d. 1796 )

* 1796 – James Lick, American carpenter and piano builder ( d. 1876 )

* 1796 – The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.

* 1724 – Abraham Yates, Jr., American lawyer and civil servant ( d. 1796 )

* 1796 – The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.

* 1720 – Samuel Whitbread, English politician and brewer, founded Whitbread ( d. 1796 )

* 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia from 1762 – 1796, was a member of the House of Ascania, herself the daughter of Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.

* Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst: 1252 – 1396 and 1544 – 1796

* Russian Empire: 1762 – 1796

* Two poets, Johann Peter Uz ( 1720 – 1796 ) and August von Platen-Hallermünde ( 1790 – 1835 ), were also born there.

#* Julie Joséphine Bonaparte ( 1796 – 1796 )

Robert Burns ( 1759 – 1796 )

* Cyril VII Siaj, Melkite patriarch of Antioch 1794 – 1796

Then in 1743 he further alienated his father by marrying Antoinette Champion ( 1710 – 1796 ), a devout Roman Catholic.

* 1860 – Alfred Bunn, British theatrical manager ( b. 1796 )

* 1865 – Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet ( b. 1796 )

* 1796 – Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet ( d. 1869 )

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This period included a panoply of international ‘ great demographers ’ like Adolphe Quételet ( 1796 – 1874 ), William Farr ( 1807 – 1883 ), Louis-Adolphe Bertillon ( 1821 – 1883 ) and his son Jacques ( 1851 – 1922 ), Joseph Körösi ( 1844 – 1906 ), Anders Nicolas Kaier ( 1838 – 1919 ), Richard Böckh ( 1824 – 1907 ), Émile Durkheim ( 1858-1917 ), Wilhelm Lexis ( 1837 – 1914 ) and Luigi Bodio ( 1840 – 1920 ) contributed to the development of demography and to the toolkit of methods and techniques of demographic analysis.

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

1796 was his first and last contested election ; in the general elections of 1802, 1806 and 1807 Perceval and Bouverie were returned unopposed.

He was viceroy of the short-lived Anglo-Corsican Kingdom from 1793 to 1796 and went on to become Governor-General of India between 1807 and 1813.

), but the book was printed in 1782, 1784, 1796 and 1807.

Among his works not already mentioned are: Commentaire sur Racine ( 1795 – 1796 ), published in 1807 ; Commentaire sur le théâtre de Voltaire of earlier date ( published posthumously in 1814 ); and an epic poem La Religion ( 1814 ).

Aside from editing The Monthly Magazine from 1796 to 1807 and Doodley's Annual Register from 1811-1815, he conducted a paper called The Athenaeum from 1807 to 1809, when it was discontinued.

* Draped Bust 1796 – 1807

* Draped Bust 1796 – 1807

Lord Huntly, who also held the subsidiary title of Lord Gordon of Strahaven and Glenlivet, had earlier been a Scottish Representative Peer from 1796 to 1807.

Lord Northesk was also a Scottish Representative Peer between 1796 and 1807 and 1830 and 1831.

The adventures are presented as a series of lessons in natural history and the physical sciences, and resemble other, similar educational books for children in this period, such as Charlotte Turner Smith's Rural Walks: in Dialogues intended for the use of Young Persons ( 1795 ), Rambles Further: A continuation of Rural Walks ( 1796 ), A Natural History of Birds, intended chiefly for young persons ( 1807 ).

His grandson, the eighth Lord, sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1796 to 1806 and from 1807 to 1823 and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Selkirkshire from 1819 to 1823.

His Œuvres complètes were published in Paris in 1796 ; an edition of his Œuvres posthumes was brought out in Paris by Nicolas-Louis François de Neufchâteau in 1807, and his Correspondance secrète was published in Paris by de Lescure in 1866.

He was elected to the House of Commons for Yorkshire in 1796, a seat he held until the 1807 Yorkshire election and again from 1812 to 1818, and also represented Westbury from 1807 to 1812 and Northallerton from 1818 to 1820.

Other important names in its historical development were Jean Zuléma Amussat ( 1796 – 1856 ), Auguste Nélaton ( 1807 – 1873 ), Henry Thompson ( 1820 – 1904 ) and William Cheselden ( 1688 – 1752 ).

He took part in the capture in 1796 of three Dutch East Indiamen in Saldanha Bay, the capture of the Spanish frigate Pomona off Havana, Cuba in 1806 and then in 1807 the island of Curaçao was captured under his command.

Key painters of the Biedermeier movement are Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller ( 1793 Wien – 1865 ), Josip Tominc ( Gorizia 1780 – 1866 ), Friedrich von Amerling ( 1803 Wien – 1887 ), Friedrich Gauermann ( 1807 Miesenbach, Niederösterreich – 1862 ), Johann Baptist Reiter ( 1813 Linz – 1890 ), Peter Fendi ( 1796 Wien – 1842 ), Michael Neder ( 1807 Wien – 1882 ), Josef Danhauser ( 1805 Wien – 1845 ), Edmund Louis Eduard Wodick ( 1806 Markt Alvensleben – 1886 ) among others.

Casa Irujo ( often spelled Yrujo ) was the Spanish minister to the United States from 1796 to 1807.