In 1788 the African Association was formed in England to promote the exploration of Africa in the hopes of locating the Niger, and in June 1796 the Scottish explorer Mungo Park was the first European to lay eyes on the river.

The kora is believed to have come from what is now Guinea-Bissau, and is known to have existed by 1796, when Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer, reported seeing one.

One by one the other great mysteries had been investigated: the coasts by Prince Henry the Navigator's Portuguese sailors in the 15th century ; the Blue Nile by James Bruce in 1773 ; the remote upper Niger by Mungo Park in 1796 ; the vast Sahara by competitors Laing, Callié, and Clapperton in the 1820s ; the fever-ridden mangroves of the lower Niger by the Lander Brothers in 1830 ; southern Africa and the Zambezi by Livingstone and John Clafton in the 1850s ; the upper Nile by Burton, Speke, and Baker in a succession of expeditions between 1857 and 1868.

Mungo Park became the first European known to have visited this city in 1796.

* General Thomas Sumter, Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, 1796

An engraving of Stoke Park was published in Copperplate Magazine in 1796

* Southill Park Southill, Bedfordshire ( 1796 – 1802 )

* Park Place, Henley-on-Thames, ( 1796 ) demolished

After the death of his English wife, Charlotte, ( who is buried in Park Street Cemetery ) Hickey married a Bengali girl called Jemdanee, who died in childbirth in 1796, prompting him to write in his journal that " Thus did I lose as gentle and affectionately attached a girl as ever man was blessed with ".

Pot-8-Os was retired in 1783 to stand at Oxcroft Farm near Balsham, Cambridgeshire, for a fee of 20 guineas, before being moved to Upper Hare Park near Newmarket in 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.

In 1796 the Duke of Zweibrücken, Maximilian Joseph, the future Bavarian king Max I. Joseph, was exiled to Ansbach after Zweibrücken had been taken by the French.

The period between 1796 and 1806 was marked by intense conflicts over the nature of the new government or governments.

Giovanni Battista Bugatti, executioner of the Papal States between 1796 and 1865, list of people executed by the Holy See | carried out 516 executions ( Bugatti pictured offering snuff to a condemned prisoner ).

The short-lived Bolognese Republic, proclaimed in 1796 as a French client republic in the Central Italian city of Bologna, had a government consisting of nine consuls and its head of state was the Presidente del Magistrato, i. e., chief magistrate, a presiding office held for four months by one of the consuls.

While at university, Gauss independently rediscovered several important theorems ; his breakthrough occurred in 1796 when he showed that any regular polygon with a number of sides which is a Fermat prime ( and, consequently, those polygons with any number of sides which is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2 ) can be constructed by compass and straightedge.

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

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

Dayton was founded on April 1, 1796, seven years before the admission of Ohio to the Union in early 1803, by a group of 12 settlers known as " The Thompson Party.

In August 1796, David and many other artists signed a petition orchestrated by

** Joan of Arc by Robert Southey ( 1796 )

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 ).

Tensions had risen between the two nations after the 1796 ratification of the Jay Treaty, made between the US and Great Britain was seen by French leaders as signs of an Anglo-American alliance, and France had stepped up seizures of American ships.

The gravitational weakening of light from high-gravity stars was predicted by John Michell in 1783 and Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1796, using Isaac Newton's concept of light corpuscles ( see: emission theory ) and who predicted that some stars would have a gravity so strong that light would not be able to escape.

The War in the Vendée was a royalist uprising that was suppressed by the republican forces in 1796.

In his work Foundations of Natural Right ( 1796 ), Fichte argued that self-consciousness was a social phenomenon — an important step and perhaps the first clear step taken in this direction by modern philosophy.

Fedon's forces were defeated by the British in late 1796, but Fedon himself was never caught and his fate is unknown.

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.

Eighteenth century Gothic horror drew on these sources in such works as Vathek ( 1786 ) by William Beckford, The Mysteries of Udolpho ( 1794 ) and The Italian ( 1796 ) by Ann Radcliffe and The Monk ( 1797 ) by Matthew Lewis.

The first self-acting ram pump was invented by the Frenchman Joseph Michel Montgolfier ( best known as a co-inventor of the hot air balloon ) in 1796 for raising water in his paper mill at Voiron.

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.

" " Hengist and Horsus " appear as antagonists in William Henry Ireland's play Vortigern and Rowena, which was touted as a newly-discovered work by William Shakespeare in 1796, but was soon revealed as a hoax.

The term entered the English language by 1796.

The Garifuna are the descendants of Caribs and black escaped slaves of African origin, transferred by the British from Saint Vincent to islands in the Bay of Honduras in 1796.

He was a young man when, early in 1796, he offered his services to the African Association of London as an explorer in Africa.

Masson ’ s only book, Stapeliae Novae, on the South African succulents also known as " carrion-flowers " because of their smell, was published in 1796.

* In 1796, Thomas Powers, an African American was hanged for rape, and is the only non-white to be executed in the state.

His campaign of 1796 is considered almost faultless.

Again and again he repeats the advice that nothing should be hazarded unless one's army is completely secure, a rule which he himself neglected with such brilliant results in 1796.

Jacques le fataliste ( written in 1773, but not published until 1792 in German and 1796 in French ) is similar to Tristram Shandy and The Sentimental Journey.

* 1796 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.

* 1796 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.

An early description of the roulette game in its current form is found in a French novel La Roulette, ou le Jour by Jaques Lablee, which describes a roulette wheel in the Palais Royal in Paris in 1796.

* 1796 – George Washington's farewell address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.

* January 3 – The Treaty of Tripoli ( a peace treaty between the United States and Tripoli ) is signed at Algiers ( see also 1796 ).

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Annually, from 1796 to 1798, L ' Olympiade de la République was held in revolutionary France, and is an early forerunner to the modern summer Olympic Games.

The Seibels House, c. 1796, is the oldest in Columbia

A letter he had drafted in 1796 to Mr and Mrs Phillips is the first known text written in English by an indigenous Australian, thanking Mrs Phillips for caring for him in England, and asking for stockings and a handkerchief.

However, one of the earliest " Canadian " writers virtually always included in Canadian literary anthologies is Thomas Chandler Haliburton ( 1796 – 1865 ), who died just two years before Canada's official birth.

When discussing Karabakh and Shusha in the 18th century, the Russian diplomat and historian S. M. Bronevskiy ( Russian: С. М. Броневский ) indicated in his Historical Notes that Karabakh, which he said " is located in Greater Armenia " had as many as 30 – 40, 000 armed Armenian men in 1796.

An example thereof is the famous multi-volume work “ Voyages dans les Alpes ” ( 1779 – 1796 ) by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure.

The headquarters of the corporation is the present Trinity House, which was designed by architect Samuel Wyatt and built in 1796.

In 1796 Daniel Lysons wrote, " this place in old charters is called Hulviz, Wolwiche, Wollewic, & c. I can find nothing satisfactory relating to its etymology.

The first settlement in St. Francois County was made in the spring of 1796 at what is now known as Big River Mills by Andrew Baker, John Ally, Francis Starnater and John Andrews.

* One of the county's oldest church sites is the Hebron Presbyterian Church, established in 1796.

It is believed Europeans first discovered the Tuggerah Lakes in 1796.