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* 1796 – The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
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* 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.
* 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.
* Two poets, Johann Peter Uz ( 1720 – 1796 ) and August von Platen-Hallermünde ( 1790 – 1835 ), were also born there.
Then in 1743 he further alienated his father by marrying Antoinette Champion ( 1710 – 1796 ), a devout Roman Catholic.
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* 1796 – The Jay Treaty between the United States and Great Britain comes into force, facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.
In May 1801, Pasha Yusuf Karamanli demanded from the United States an increase in the tribute ( then $ 83, 000 ) which the US government had paid since 1796 for the protection of US commerce from piracy by Ottoman tribes along the North African coast.
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.
After the British surrendered Fort Niagara in November 1796, they confronted the United States from Canada over the Niagara River.
* 1731 – Samuel Huntington, American politician, 3rd Governor of Connecticut and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ( d. 1796 )
From 1783 to 1796, the Kingdom of Great Britain granted United Empire Loyalists leaving the United States following the American Revolution of land and other items with which to rebuild their lives.
The French navy began seizing American ships trading with Britain and refused to receive the new United States minister Charles Cotesworth Pinckney when he arrived in Paris in December 1796.
* January 3 – The Treaty of Tripoli ( a peace treaty between the United States and Tripoli ) is signed at Algiers ( see also 1796 ).
Great Britain then ceded the area to the United States at the end of the American Revolutionary War, though the Northwest Territory remained under de facto British control until 1796.
The United States presidential election of 1796 was the first contested American presidential election and the only one in which a president and vice president were elected from opposing tickets.
His grandfather Frederick Frelinghuysen ( 1753 – 1804 ) was an eminent lawyer, one of the framers of the first New Jersey Constitution, a soldier in the American Revolutionary War and a member ( 1778 – 1779 and 1782 – 1783 ) of the Continental Congress from New Jersey, and from 1793 to 1796 a member of the United States Senate.
* Oliver Bond ( died in 1796 ) – A possible St. Johnston native who was a Dublin-based member of the United Irishmen.
In 1796, the site became the westernmost point of the newly admitted state of Tennessee, located in the Southwest United States.
Thereafter, he joined the Federalist Party and was elected to the 4th Congress from November 30, 1796, through 1797 as a United States Senator for the remainder of the term of Richard Potts, who had resigned.
Binny & Ronaldson was one of the oldest type foundries in the United States, established in Philadelphia in 1796.
Both Berbice and the United Colony of Demerara and Essequibo were under British control from 1796 to 1802.
Anthony Wayne ( January 1, 1745 – December 15, 1796 ) was a United States Army general and statesman.
He served in the Virginia House of Delegates ( 1779 – 81, 1783 – 85, 1796 – 1800 ) and in the United States Senate ( 1792 – 94, 1803, 1822 – 24 ).
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