The actual authorship and genesis of the story of the boy and the dike is currently unknown, but it is possibly from a hypothetical-but-unidentified story by French author Eugenie Foa ( 1796 – 1852 ), appearing as an alleged English translation, " The Little Dykeman ", in Merry's magazine in 1868.

( Note: possibly 1796 )

She remained in England and is believed to have suffered from depression and had died, likely in 1796, but possibly as late as 1809.

Richard Hatt emigrated from England to Canada in 1792, settling first at Niagara and moving, possibly as early as 1796, to Ancaster.

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.

* April 12 – Davi Canabarro, Gaúcho rebel revolutionary ( b. 1796 )

* November 12 – Alois II, Prince of Liechtenstein ( b. 1796 )

* April 12 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )

Bermuda Gazette of 12 November 1796, calling for privateering against Spain and its allies, and with advertisements for crew for two privateer vessels

Bermuda Gazette of 12 November 1796, calling for privateering against Spain and its allies, and with advertisements for crew for two privateer vessels.

After four years of fighting, the French under Bonaparte had finally beaten the Piedmontese army in the Battle of Montenotte ( 12 April 1796 ), the Battle of Millesimo ( 13 – 14 April 1796 ) and the Battle of Mondovi ( 21 April 1796 ).

Neighboring Township 13, now Columbia Falls, was joined with Township 12 and incorporated as the Town of Columbia in 1796.

Guillaume Thomas Raynal ( April 12, 1713 – March 6, 1796 ) was a French writer and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment.

In 1815 he married Emilie Wall ( 1796 – 1834 ) in Altona, who bore 12 children, 8 of which survived early childhood.

Johann Adam Möhler ( 6 May 1796 – 12 April 1838 ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian.

He was elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Frederick Frelinghuysen and served from November 12, 1796 to March 4, 1799, but declined to be a candidate for reelection.

Remaining in Germany, he commanding a brigade of the Corps of Observation, 22 October 1796 – 12 January 1798.

He reached there with 16, 000 soldiers on 12 September 1796, but was defeated and driven into the fortress by the French on the 15th.

Butler died at Niagara on May 12, 1796.

* after five military governors since the East India Company started chasing the Dutch out of Ceylon in August 1795 and occupying the island ( completed in 16 February 1796 ), their only Resident there was Robert Andrews, 12 February 1796 – 12 October 1798, who was subordinate to the presidency of Madras ( see British India ), afterwards the HEIC appointed Governors as it was made a separate colony

Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville ( April 14, 1796 – June 12, 1878 ) was a French-born officer in the United States Army, fur trapper, and explorer in the American West.

John Easton Mills ( October 1796 – November 12, 1847 ) served briefly as mayor of Montreal, Quebec.

Frelinghuysen was elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1793 to November 12, 1796, when he resigned.

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.

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

However, Pitt took a more direct role ; on 29 August 1796 he sent Vancouver a letter heaping many insults on the head of his former captain, and challenging him to a duel.

Soldiers of the Queen's Rangers began cutting the road in August 1793, reaching Holland Landing in 1796.

At the age of 25 he began to write professionally, translating works from German, his first publication being rhymed versions of ballads by Gottfried August Bürger in 1796.

* August 27 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian author ( b. 1796 )

* August 2 – Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist ( b. 1796 )

* August 8 – Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician ( d. 1796 )

* August 30 – Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician ( d. 1796 )

* August 23 – Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman ( d. 1796 )

:: 22nd August, 1796.

This peace became an alliance on 19 August 1796.

Saxony dropped out of the coalition against France in August 1796 after France had advanced east into the German lands and additional conditions for the Holy Roman Empire to conclude a separate peace were agreed to.

On Fructidor 10 and 11 ( 27 August and 28 August 1796 ), when the prisoners were removed from Paris, there were tentative efforts at a riot with a view to rescue, but these were easily suppressed.

He retired from that post in February 1795, to be replaced by the Duke of York, and was promoted to the rank of Field Marshal on 2 August 1796.

By proclamation of the Territorial Secretary and Acting Governor, Winthrop Sargent, on August 15, 1796, the boundaries of Wayne County were declared to begin at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River then west to Fort Wayne, then to the southernmost point of Lake Michigan and along the western shore north to the territorial boundary in Lake Superior and then along the territorial boundary through Lake Huron, Lake St. Clair, and Lake Erie back to the starting point.

This original Wayne County was created on August 11, 1796, and included all of the lower peninsula of Michigan, parts of Northern Ohio and Indiana, and also portions of Wisconsin and Illinois.

The Battle of Amberg, fought on 24 August 1796, resulted in an Austrian victory by Archduke Charles over a French army led by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan.

The Battle of Neresheim was fought on 11 August 1796 and resulted the victory of French under General Moreau against Austrians under Archduke Charles.

), The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Volume II: America, France, and Bantry Bay, August 1795 to December 1796 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001 ).

In Russia, his work in these fields was continued by Nikolay Dmitrievich Brashman ( 1796 – 1866 ), August Yulevich Davidov ( 1823 – 1885 ) and specially by the brilliant work of Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky ( 1847 – 1921 ).

Horace Mann ( May 4, 1796 – August 2, 1859 ) was an American education reformer.

On 24 August 1796, during the French Revolutionary Wars, the city and its environs were the locale of a major battle at which 35, 000 French, under the command of Jean Baptiste Jourdan fought with 40, 000 under the command of Archduke Charles ; the French suffered significantly more losses in this Austrian victory.