* Two poets, Johann Peter Uz ( 1720 – 1796 ) and August von Platen-Hallermünde ( 1790 – 1835 ), were also born there.

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

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

The west coast of Grande Terre was approached by Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse in 1788, shortly before his disappearance, and the Loyalty Islands were first visited in 1796.

Many specimens were collected with the help of his Japanese collaborators Keisuke Ito ( 1803 – 1901 ), Mizutani Sugeroku ( 1779 – 1833 ), Ohkochi Zonshin ( 1796 – 1882 ) and Katsuragawa Hoken ( 1797 – 1844 ), a physician to the Shogun.

The German physician Franz Joseph Gall ( 1758 – 1828 ) in 1796 began lecturing on organology, the isolation of mental faculties and later cranioscopy, which was the reading of the bumps on the skull that were supposedly created by the brain organs.

Many Congressmen were hard to classify in the first few years, but after 1796 there was less uncertainty.

Many Congressmen were very hard to classify in the first few years, but after 1796 there was less uncertainty.

The first recorded visits by Europeans to Zambia were the Portuguese Manuel Caetano Pereira ( a trader of mixed Goanese and Portuguese descent ) in 1796 and Francisco de Lacerda ( an explorer ) in 1798.

When the capital was first moved to Toronto from Newark ( present-day Niagara-on-the-Lake ) in 1796, the Parliament Buildings of Upper Canada were located at the corner of Parliament and Front Streets, in buildings that were burned by U. S. forces in the War of 1812, rebuilt, then burned again by accident.

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.

Under the system in place in 1796, electors had two votes, but both were for president ; the runner-up in the presidential race was elected vice-president ( this was prior to the passage of the Twelfth Amendment, which, in accommodating the notion of running mate, required that electors cast separate ballots for president and vice president ).

In December 1796, after succeeding Catherine, Peter's son the Emperor Paul, who disliked his mother, arranged for his remains to be exhumed and then reburied with full honors in the Peter and Paul Cathedral, where other tsars were buried.

His drafts of 1793 ( which he had been told to produce, impossibly, inside a month ), 1794, and 1796, however, were adopted only piecemeal by a National Convention more concerned about the turmoil resulting from the various wars and strife with other European powers.

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.

Both Berbice and the United Colony of Demerara and Essequibo were under British control from 1796 to 1802.

Bowles ' first act was declaring the 1796 Second Treaty of San Ildefonso which drew the boundary between the U. S. and West Florida null-and-void, because the Indians were not consulted.

On 4 April 1796, the government received a report that 500, 000 people in Paris were in need of relief.

The Directory thought it time to react ; the bureau central had accumulated through its agents, notably the ex-captain Georges Grisel, who had been initiated into Babeuf ’ s society, complete evidence of a conspiracy ( later known as the " Conspiracy of Equals ") for an armed rising fixed for Floréal 22, year IV ( 11 May 1796 ), in which Jacobins and socialists were combined.

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.

Later, with the French invasion of Italy in 1796, the Legations were seized and became part of the revolutionary Cisalpine Republic.

Associate Justice William Cushing received nomination and confirmation as Chief Justice in January 1796, but declined the office ; President Washington then nominated, and the Senate confirmed, Oliver Ellsworth, who served instead.

From 1787 to 1796, he served as governor of the Bahamas.

In the Italian campaigns of 1796 – 1797, Eugène served as aide-de-camp to his stepfather, whom he also accompanied to Egypt.

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 ).

* Samuel Huntington ( 1731 – 1796 ) a leading Patriot in the American Revolution who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence, was born in Scotland.

The city of Louisville served as the state capital of Georgia from 1796 to 1806.

The Thomas Bull House was built sometime between 1783 and 1796 ; Bull was a stonemason and the manager of Warwick Furnace ; he served as a lieutenant colonel in the Revolutionary War.

Knoxville served as capital of the Territory South of the River Ohio and as capital of Tennessee ( admitted as a state in 1796 ) until 1817, when the capital was moved to Murfreesboro.

* From 1748 until 1796, a company of Swiss ( Cent-Suisses ) served as a personal guard for the Stadhouder of the Dutch Republic ; besides a Dutch Guard Regiment, there was also a Swiss Guard Regiment.

Religious life and missionary work have always had a strong position in Lyngdal, and worthy of special note is the minister and Gabriel Kielland ( 1796 – 1854 ), who served in the parish from 1837 – 54, and his wife Gustava ( 1800 – 89 ).

After his release he returned to the state assembly, where he served until 1796.

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 ).

After school, Taylor served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1796 to 1802 and again from 1804 to 1805.

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.

He served as a member of the Board of Control for India from 1793 to 1796.

On 13 October 1795 he fought a brilliant rearguard action at the bridge of Neuwied, and in the offensive campaign of 1796 he served as Jourdan's most active and successful lieutenant.

It is served by the Amity Station of the Pine Island Fire Department and is the site of the Amity Presbyterian Church, which was first opened in 1796.

He served again as an Indian Commissioner, and was elected Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut in 1786, assuming the Governorship on the death of Samuel Huntington in 1796, and was reelected to the position, dying in office at the age of seventy-one in Farmington, Connecticut.

Walton only served in that position from November 16, 1795, to February 20, 1796, until a successor, Josiah Tattnall, was officially elected.

After the legalization of the more potent aguardiende in 1796, the poor could also afford the viñaterías where hard liquor was served, and drunkenness increased.

He served in the state assembly again from 1787 – 1788 and in the state Senate from 1791 – 1793 and 1796 – 1802.

He did not seek re-election for a fourth term and instead ran for the United States Senate, where he was elected and served from March 4, 1795 to June 10, 1796, when he resigned to become Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut.

In the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees and in the Army of the Moselle he repeatedly distinguished himself for valour, and in 1796, as captain, he served in Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian campaign.

In 1796 young Provo became a volunteer in the 40-gun frigate where he remained ( on paper at least ) for two years before returning in the 64-gun where he served until 1800, then was promoted as a midshipman into the 32-gun frigate.