At the conclusion of the Italian campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte ( 1796 ), the Duchy of Milan was sold to the French Republic and then entered the Cisalpine Republic ( which, in 1802, became the Italian Republic ).

Between 1796 and 1798, were sold through a Crown Grant to Richard Beasley, with the Six Nations Indians continuing to hold the mortgage on the lands.

From 1796 and 1798, the Six Nations sold 38, 000 hectares of this land to a Loyalist by the name of Colonel Richard Beasley.

About 1796 Abel own sold his farm to Lemuel Steward and removed with his family to Onondaga County.

Beginning as a small shop owned by S. and J. Watts in 1796, its sold a variety of goods.

Resolving to devote himself and his means wholly to the advancement of Christianity, his first proposal for that end, made in 1796, was to organize a vast mission to Bengal, of which he was to provide the entire expense ; with this view the greater part of his estate was sold, but the British East India Company refused to sanction the scheme, which therefore had to be abandoned.

In 1796 the French arrived in Italy and only four years later Napoleon suppressed the monastery and sold its treasures.

His best known work, the unfinished portrait of George Washington that is sometimes referred to as The Athenaeum, was begun in 1796 and never finished ; Stuart retained the portrait and used it to paint 130 copies which he sold for $ 100 each.

The first edition sold well, and a second edition was published in October 1796.

She was purchased in 1796 and sold in 1800.

In 1796 ( or possibly 12 August 2 September, or 5 September 1795 ), Connecticut sold title to the land in the Western Reserve to the Connecticut Land Company for $ 1, 200, 000.

*, formerly the French Percente, captured in 1796 and taken in as a 26-gun 6th-rate, sold in 1814

At the Hudson River, with its foundation in the river and extending north to 10th Street, Newgate Prison, the first New York State Prison, occupied the site from 1796 to 1829, when the institution was removed to Sing Sing and the City plotted and sold the land.

* HMS Shannon was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate launched in 1796 and sold in 1802.

It appeared November 9, 1793, and weekly thereafter until June 1796, when it was sold to Edmund Freeman and was merged with Freeman's Journal.

She was captured by HMS Phoenix in 1796, placed on harbour service from 1798 and was sold in 1811.

A part of Orme's library had been sold by him at Sotheby's about April 1796, when he gave up his house in Harley Street.

Land was sold to Obadiah Ikin in 1796 for 10 pounds, which he then sold to Captain John Macarthur in 1799 for a gallon of rum.

He sold his 1796 crop for $ 12, 000 and a new industry was born in Louisiana.

In 1796, the estate was sold to John Holroyd, created Baron Sheffield in 1781.

In 1796 Chamber sold Temerin and Bački Jarak to count Sándor Szécsen for a price of 80, 000 forints.

She was purchased in 1796 and was sold in 1802.

In need of money, he sold his lieutenant-colonel's commission in 1796 and purchased an ensigncy in the 70th Foot and was appointed captain-commissary in the Royal Artillery in 1806.

In about 1796 he became acquainted with the celebrated evangelical, Charles Simeon of Cambridge, in whose company he toured Scotland, distributing tracts and trying to awaken others to an interest in religious subjects.

Having previously purchased the Pelham interest, he unsuccessfully contested the constituency against Charles Rose Ellis and Ellis's cousin, George Ellis, at the general election in May 1796.

After studying at Würzburg, he went on the stage in 1825 ; but owing to an accidental meeting with the German traveller, Philipp Franz von Siebold ( 1796 – 1866 ), in July 1830, his interest was diverted to Oriental philology.

Around 1796 Earnshaw, who had temporarily lost interest in the Board of Longitude reward, was tempted back by the failure of Josiah Emery to win it.

Born in London in 1796, Atkinson was a remarkable figure, carrying her family's interest in art and science to act as governess for Hannibal Macarthur in 1826, meeting James Atkinson on ship ( The Cumberland ) to Sydney and marrying soon after, moving to his home at Oldbury, near Sutton Forest.

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.

" " 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.

* 1796 – William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist ( d. 1852 )

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.

* September 4 – William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist ( b. 1796 )

This period included a panoply of international ‘ great demographers ’ like Adolphe Quételet ( 1796 – 1874 ), William Farr ( 1807 – 1883 ), Louis-Adolphe Bertillon ( 1821 – 1883 ) and his son Jacques ( 1851 – 1922 ), Joseph Körösi ( 1844 – 1906 ), Anders Nicolas Kaier ( 1838 – 1919 ), Richard Böckh ( 1824 – 1907 ), Émile Durkheim ( 1858-1917 ), Wilhelm Lexis ( 1837 – 1914 ) and Luigi Bodio ( 1840 – 1920 ) contributed to the development of demography and to the toolkit of methods and techniques of demographic analysis.

Many contemporary inventors attempted to develop a design that would process short staple cotton, and Hodgen Holmes, Robert Watkins, William Longstreet, and John Murray had all been issued patents for improvements to the cotton gin by 1796.

* William C. Bouck, 1796 – 1859, former governor of New York 1843-1845

Their children were born on his family's plantation near Timber Ridge Church, including Sam Houston on March 2, 1793, the fifth of nine children and the fifth son born: Children-Paxton 1783, Robert 1787, James 1788, John Paxton 1790 ( first clerk of Izard County, Arkansas 1819-1838 ), Samuel 1793, William 1794, Isabella 1796, Mary Blair 1797, and Elizabeth Ann 1800.

William was the brother of Lt .- Col. John Charles Tufnell of Bath ( leased Lackham House, Laycock in Wiltshire in 1877 ), banker, m. 1796 Uliana Ivanova Margaret Fowell ( d. 29 / 1 / 1848 ) daughter of John Fowell of Bishopbourne ).

* William Pitt Smith ( 1760 – 1796 ), U. S. physician, educator and theological writer

Georgia's 94th county was named for William Washington Gordon ( 1796 – 1842 ), the first Georgian to graduate from West Point and first president of the Central of Georgia Railroad ( See a monument to William Gordon in Savannah, Georgia ).

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

Franklin was founded by General William C. Schenck, in 1796.

The borough of Hollidaysburg was first laid out in 1796 and was named after Adam and William Holliday, Irish immigrants who founded the settlement ; by 1814 it consisted of several houses and a tavern.

The townsite of Elizabeth was settled by William Beauchamp in 1796, and was known as " Beauchamp's Mills " until 1817, when it was named for Elizabeth Woodyard, the wife of David Beauchamp.

* William Gerard Hamilton ( 1729 – 1796 ), English statesman

In his 1796 book, Congressman William Findley argued that Alexander Hamilton had deliberately provoked the Whiskey Rebellion.

Sir William Chambers RA ( 23 February 1723 – 10 March 1796 ) was a Scottish architect, based in London.

One of Vortigern's most notorious literary appearances is in the play Vortigern and Rowena, which was promoted as a lost work of William Shakespeare when it first emerged in 1796.

Latrobe initially spent time in Norfolk, where he designed the William Pennock House, then set out for Richmond, Virginia in April 1796.

* William Marsden ( surgeon ) ( 1796 – 1867 ), English surgeon