* 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 – 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 )

This was developed by James Parker in the 1780s, and finally patented in 1796.

His first wife, Juliet Macpherson ( c. 1776 – 1850 ), was a daughter of James Macpherson ( 1736 – 1796 ), a probable translator of Ossian poems.

On 14 May 1796, Jenner tested his hypothesis by inoculating James Phipps, a boy eight years old ( the son of Jenner's gardener ), with pus scraped from the cowpox blisters on the hands of Sarah Nelmes, a milkmaid who had caught cowpox from a cow called Blossom, whose hide now hangs on the wall of the St George's medical school library ( now in Tooting ).

In The Caneing in Conduit Street ( 1796 ), James Gillray caricatured Pitt's streetcorner assault on Vancouver.

Easton's firm, inherited by his son James ( 1796 – 1871 ), grew during the nineteenth century to become one of the more important engineering manufacturers in the United Kingdom, with a large works at Erith, Kent.

In 1764, Watt married his cousin Margaret ( Peggy ) Miller, with whom he had five children, two of whom lived to adulthood: James Jr. ( 1769 – 1848 ) and Margaret ( 1767 – 1796 ).

In 1796, Scott's friend James Ballantyne founded a printing press in Kelso, in the Scottish Borders.

They included Thomas Jefferson ( nominated 1796 ; elected 1800-1, 1804 ), James Madison ( 1808, 1812 ), James Monroe ( 1816, 1820 ).

* October 1 – James Lick, American land baron ( b. 1796 )

** James Bowie Texan revolutionary ( b. 1796 )

* October 27 – James Macpherson, Scottish poet ( d. 1796 )

This cement was an artificial cement similar in properties to the material known as " Roman cement ", which had been patented in 1796 by James Parker.

After Ann Lee and James Whittaker died, Joseph Meacham ( 1742 – 1796 ) became the leader of the Shakers in 1787.

In High-Change in Bond Street ,— ou — la Politesse du Grande Monde ( 1796 ), James Gillray caricatured the lack of etiquette in a group of men leering at women and crowding them off a pavement.

Their children were born on his family's plantation near Timber Ridge Church, including Sam Houston on March 2, 1793, the fifth of nine children and the fifth son born: Children-Paxton 1783, Robert 1787, James 1788, John Paxton 1790 ( first clerk of Izard County, Arkansas 1819-1838 ), Samuel 1793, William 1794, Isabella 1796, Mary Blair 1797, and Elizabeth Ann 1800.

* James Sherman ( minister ) ( 1796 – 1862 ), British Congregationalist and abolitionist

In The Orangerie ( 1796 ), James Gillray caricatured William's dalliances during his exile, depicting him as an indolent Cupid sleeping on bags of money, surrounded by pregnant amours.

* Walker, Thomas James, The Depot for Prisoners of War at Norman Cross, Huntingdonshire, 1796 to 1816, London, Constable, 1913 E-book version ( very poorly proof-read )

In 1796, during the British occupation of the Cape, Major-General Sir James Craig ordered three blockhouses to be built on Table Mountain: the King's blockhouse, Duke of York blockhouse ( later renamed Queen's blockhouse ) and the Prince of Wales blockhouse.

Wood County was formed in 1798 from the western part of Harrison County and it was named for James Wood, governor of Virginia from 1796 to 1799.

It was formed in 1797 and was named for James Garrard, Governor of Kentucky from 1796 to 1804.

* Gamaliel Bartlett ( 1796 – 1859 ), first postmaster at Stanhope, appointed in 1823 by President James Monroe.

And the Orient Point Inn, which opened in 1796, played host to President Grover Cleveland, Walt Whitman, orator Daniel Webster, actress Sarah Bernhardt and James Fenimore Cooper, who wrote " Sea Lions ," set in Orient.