He was a delegate to the Continental Congress from Maryland, and the third United States Secretary of War ( 1796 – 1800 ), under presidents George Washington and John Adams.

His father Harman ( 1712 – 1801 ) represented the third generation in America, while his mother, Magdalena Douw Gansevoort ( 1718 – 1796 ) was connected with the Van Rensselaer family

Suffering from gout, King returned to England in October 1796, and after regaining his health, and resuming his naval career, he was appointed to replace Captain John Hunter as the third Governor of New South Wales.

* was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1796.

A third root of the Advent Christians is found in the rise of the doctrine of conditional immortality among Adventist preachers such as Charles F. Hudson ( 1795 – 1881 ) and George Storrs ( 1796 – 1879 ).

*, 64-gun third rate, intended to be the East Indiaman Royal Admiral ; purchased on the stocks 1796 and converted ; wrecked 1804

The third creation, Baron Huntingfield, of Heveningham Hall in the County of Suffolk, was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1796 for Sir Joshua Vanneck, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament for Dunwich.

He was succeeded in this seat and in the baronetcy by his younger brother, the third Baronet, who was elevated to the peerage as Baron Huntingfield in 1796.

He was a delegate to the Continental Congress from Maryland, and the third United States Secretary of War ( 1796 – 1800 ), under presidents George Washington and John Adams.

The third creation came in 1796 in favour of Robert Stewart, 1st Viscount Castlereagh, already created Baron Londonderry in 1789.

Struve was born in 1819 in Dorpat ( Tartu ), then Russian Empire, as the third son out of eighteen sons and daughters of Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve and Emilie Wall ( 1796 – 1834 ).

Following the signature of the Peace of Basel, which put an end to the War of the Pyrenees between France and Spain, both countries maintained a military alliance embodied in the signing of the Second Treaty of San Ildefonso on 1796, which committed either party to go to war against a third country if attacked.

In 1796 he was created Baron Brodrick, of Peper Harrow in the County of Surrey, in the Peerage of Great Britain, with a special remainder to the heirs male of his father, the third Viscount.

* Mat ( h ) ilda Valeria Beatrix Gyllenhaal ( 1796 – 1863 ), née de Orozco, singer, composer and socialite ( married in her third marriage to cavalry lieutenant baron Carl Alexander Fredrik Gyllenhaal, son of Carl Henrik G .).

The link was consolidated in other ways, in particular through the marriage in 1796 of Pierre César Labouchère under Hope family, a leading figure at Hopes, to Baring's third daughter, Dorothy.

An original ( 1796 ) stone spiral staircase behind the northern arch, designed by Asher Benjamin, led to the second and third floors ; it no longer exists.

* Nicholas I of Russia ( 1796 – 1855 ), third son of Paul I & Tsaritsa Maria Fedorovna ; younger brother of Alexander I, ascended 1825

After organising the Tyrolean militia to face the threat of the French advance in 1796, he was tasked with the third relief of the Siege of Mantua.

# Joseph Maria Benedikt Karl, third Fürst zu Fürstenberg, 9 January 1758, died at Donaueschingen 24 June 1796 ; married in Hechingen 1778 to Maria Antonia von Hohenzollern-Hechingen ( 10 November 1760 25 July 1797 )

In his speech from 1 Pluviose year IV ( 21 January 1796 ), he delivered a speech on the third anniversary of the execution of Louis XVI, in which he execrated monarchy.

His book went into a second edition in 1795, a third in 1796 and a fourth in 1803.

He had been warned in 1796 that if he chose to plant crops " on the avenue and the Mall ", it was at his own risk as something might be done " almost any time " to make a thoroughfare.

) The plant genus Dieffenbachia was named after the head gardener of the Botanical Gardens in Vienna, Joseph Dieffenbach ( 1796 – 1863 ).

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

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.

* 1796 edition of Rights of Woman from Google Books

In 1796, mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace promoted the same idea in the first and second editions of his book Exposition du système du Monde ( it was removed from later editions ).

The German-language Conversations-Lexikon was published at Leipzig from 1796 to 1808, in 6 volumes.

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 ).

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.

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

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.

Davy was also a painter and three of his paintings dating from circa 1796 have been donated to the Penlee House museum at Penzance.

* 1796 – The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.

John Graves Simcoe ( February 25, 1752 – October 26, 1806 ) was a British army officer and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791 – 1796.

After the British surrendered Fort Niagara in November 1796, they confronted the United States from Canada over the Niagara River.

Finnish born nationalist and linguist Kaarle Akseli Gottlund ( 1796 – 1875 ) expressed his desire for a Finnish epic in a similar vein to The Iliad, Beowulf and the Nibelungenlied compiled from the various poems and songs spread over most of Finland.

From 1795 Canadians from Brandon House were trading with the Mandans and in 1796 John Evans ( explorer ) reached the Mandans from the Mississippi.

However, the British expelled the Dutch from Ceylon in 1796 and included Maldives as a British protected area.

Although the term has been in use since at least the late 18th century ( used in 1796 in reference to alchemy ,) the concept of pseudoscience as distinct from real or proper science appears to have emerged in the mid-19th century.

Developed by German physician Franz Joseph Gall in 1796, the discipline was very popular in the 19th century, especially from about 1810 until 1840.

The Josty company had been founded in 1793 by two Swiss brothers, Johann and Daniel Josty, who had emigrated to Berlin from Sils in Switzerland and set up a bakery from which the café was a 1796 offshoot.

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.

Arguing that universal public education was the best way to turn the nation's unruly children into disciplined, judicious republican citizens, Horace Mann ( 1796 – 1859 ) won widespread approval from modernizers, especially among fellow Whigs, for building public schools.