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.

On June 4, 1796, during the Napoleonic Wars, Mantua was besieged by Napoleon as a move against Austria, who joined the First Coalition.

In 1796, the Great Hall was restored and in 1838, during the reign of Queen Victoria, the restoration was completed and the palace opened to the public.

It carried the following inscription ( translated from Russian ): " In the Year 1796, in the month of January, this bell was cast on the Island of Kodiak by the blessing of Archimandrite Joaseph, during the sojourn of Alexsandr Baranov.

Napoleon married Joséphine de Beauharnais in 1796, when he was 26 ; she was a 32-year-old widow whose first husband had been executed during the Revolution.

In The Orangerie ( 1796 ), James Gillray caricatured William's dalliances during his exile, depicting him as an indolent Cupid sleeping on bags of money, surrounded by pregnant amours.

Wayne died of complications from gout on December 15, 1796, during a return trip to Pennsylvania from a military post in Detroit, and was buried at Fort Presque Isle ( now Erie, Pennsylvania ) where the modern Wayne Blockhouse stands.

* Mary Ann Lamb, the mentally ill sister of essayist Charles Lamb, killed their invalid mother during an episode of mania in 1796.

In 1796, during the British occupation of the Cape, Major-General Sir James Craig ordered three blockhouses to be built on Table Mountain: the King's blockhouse, Duke of York blockhouse ( later renamed Queen's blockhouse ) and the Prince of Wales blockhouse.

In 1796, a house in West Square became the first station in the optical telegraph, or semaphore line, between the Admiralty in London, and Chatham and Deal in Kent, and during the Napoleonic Wars transmitted messages between Whitehall and the Royal Navy.

* Charles Lynch ( 1736 – 1796 ), a Virginia planter and American Revolutionary who headed a county court in Virginia which incarcerated Loyalist supporters of the British for up to one year during the war, although lacking proper jurisdiction, on the plea of wartime necessity.

Maj. Dudley Wheeler ( 1796 – 1888 ) was the most prominent member of the family at this time ; in addition to owning two stores in town, he also was extensively involved in the wool export business and during mid-century worked out of an import-export office in New York City.

Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, UK Prime Minister from 1812 to 1827, was quartered in Dumfries in 1796 during his military service.

The medieval hall stood south-west of the keep and was dismantled in 1796 during the remodelling of the castle.

The canal was cut during the years 1796 to 1810.

In 1796 St-Calais ' grave was supposedly found during the demolition of the chapter house at Durham Cathedral.

Martha Washington was upset when her lady's maid Oney Judge, a " dower " slave, escaped in 1796 from the Philadelphia household during Washington's second term.

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

In 1796 peace with France was concluded, but in 1798, during Napoleon's absence in Egypt and after Nelson's victory at the Battle of the Nile, Maria Carolina induced Ferdinand to go to war with France once more.

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.

Effective British control began in 1796 during the French Revolutionary Wars, at which time the Netherlands were under French occupation and Great Britain and France were at war.

It was during this period that Dundas, without whose " skillful obstructions the slave trade would have been abolished in 1796, if not 1792 ", was influential in obstructing the abolition of the Slave Trade.

Granville Leveson-Gower, in Paris during the winter of 1796, noted " The word citoyen seemed but very little in use, and hair powder being very common, the appearance of the people was less democratic than in England.

Eventually Paoli and Pozzo accepted foreign help, and from 1794 to 1796, during the British protectorate of Corsica, Pozzo was president of the council of state under Sir Gilbert Eliott.

* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 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.

* 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.

His health gradually recovered and in 1796 he went back to sea, holding a series of commands and responsible posts in the wars against the French.

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.

However, the French Navy was dominant in the Mediterranean Sea, following the withdrawal of the British fleet after the outbreak of war between Britain and Spain in 1796.

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.

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.

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.

* 1796 – Alexis Bachelot, French missionary ( d. 1837 )

* 1796 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist ( d. 1832 )

* 1796 – Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter ( d. 1875 )

" During the French Revolution, Sylvain Maréchal, in his Manifesto of the Equals ( 1796 ), demanded " the communal enjoyment of the fruits of the earth " and looked forward to the disappearance of " the revolting distinction of rich and poor, of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors and governed.

During the French Revolution, Sylvain Maréchal, in his Manifesto of the Equals ( 1796 ), demanded " the communal enjoyment of the fruits of the earth " and looked forward to the disappearance of " the revolting distinction of rich and poor, of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors and governed.

* 1769 – François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general ( d. 1796 )

After the Third Partition in 1795, he came to Paris to seek French aid in re-establishing Polish independence and, in 1796, he started the formation of the Polish Legions, a Polish unit of the French Revolutionary Army.

* 1796 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Arcole – French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.

The terms Right and Left refer to political affiliations which originated early in the French Revolutionary era of 1789 – 1796, and referred originally to the seating arrangements in the various legislative bodies of France.

The Republic of Alba was created in 1796 as a French client republic in Piedmont before the area was annexed by France in 1801.

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.

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.