In 1796, during the French Revolution and three years after the declaration of war between France and Great Britain, Étienne-Gaspard Robert met with the French government and proposed the use of mirrors to burn the invading ships of the British Royal Navy.

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

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.

Within three years, by 1796, he was made a captain, to the combined envy and disgust of the older officers, who felt that: " our general ’ s friend was now the general .” When his regiment was sent from London to Manchester he immediately resigned his commission, citing the city's poor reputation, lack of atmosphere, and an absence of culture and civility.

These three colonies were captured by the British in 1796 ; they were returned to the ( Dutch ) Batavian Republic in 1802, but were again captured by British forces a year later and were officially ceded to the United Kingdom in 1814, and consolidated into a single colony in 1831.

He was arrested and imprisoned for three years during the height of The Terror until 1796 when the French authorities concluded that he was a lunatic and released him.

" The friendly hand was that of Judith Frere, whom he had known since 1796, and who continued to be his faithful companion until her death, three months before his own.

Deep mines were sunk at Cowpen Colliery and Cowpen Square in 1796 and 1804 respectively, and by 1855, a quarter of a million tons of coal was being shipped from Blyth, rising to three million tons by 1900.

In January 1796, David Collins wrote that ' several attempts had been made to ascertain the number of arms in the possession of individuals, as many were feared to be in the hands of those who committed depredations ; the crown recalled between two and three hundred stands of arms, but not 50 stands were accounted for '.

About three years previously he had purchased the copyright of the bankrupt Conversations-Lexikon, an encyclopedia started in 1796, and in 1810-1811 he completed the first edition of this celebrated work.

Over the course of ten years, Bulfinch built a remarkable number of private dwellings in the Boston area, including Joseph Barrell's Pleasant Hill ( 1793 ), a series of three houses in Boston for Harrison Gray Otis ( 1796, 1800, 1806 ), and the John Phillips House ( 1804 ).

# Lady Elizabeth Somerset ( 11 February 1773 – 5 May 1836 ), who married, on 27 June 1796, Very Reverend Charles Talbot, Dean of Salisbury, grandson of Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot, with whom she had three sons and three daughters

On May 3, 1796, a special meeting was held, as recorded in town of Seneca records, and three commissioners were chosen to receive the moneys granted by the state for the " use of schools.

Sketches of these doctrines were given by him in three papers contained in the Memoirs of the Société Médicale d ' Émulation, which he founded in 1796, and they were afterwards more fully developed in his Traité sur les membranes ( 1800 ).

She then returned to Paris with her children – three older daughters and one son – and lived there quietly until 1796, when she married the Marc-René-Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d ' Argenson, grandson of Louis XV's minister of war.

In 1796, after the Reign of Terror, Pardessus married, but his wife died after three years.

Bayard was first elected to the U. S. House of Representatives in 1796, and served there for three terms, from March 4, 1797 until March 3, 1803.

He also served as one of three judges of the Southwest Territory in the 1790s, and was a delegate to the Tennessee state constitutional convention in 1796.

A pupil of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, he carried off one of the three grands prix offered in 1796, in consequence of the competition not having taken place since 1793.

Later in 1796 he became one of the three judges of the Superior Court of Law and Equity, the highest court established under the new state constitution.

In 1801, Governor John Sevier had reached the limit of three consecutive terms allowed as governor under the Tennessee Constitution of 1796, and Roane won election as Sevier's successor.

In gratitude for his assistance to the state, Cornplanter was given a grant of by Pennsylvania in 1796 along the western bank of the Allegheny River ( about three miles ( 5 km ) below the southern boundary of New York state ) to him and his heirs " forever ".

* An 1823 novel, The King of the Peak – A Romance, in three volumes, was written by William Bennett ( 1796 – 1879 ), writing under the pseudonym Lee Gibbons.

Vortigern and Rowena opened on 2 April 1796, just two days after Malone's book appeared.

A French fleet carrying 15, 000 troops set sail for Ireland in 1796, under General Hoche and spent days in sight of the Cork coast at Bantry Bay but weather conditions prevented its landing, and its remnants not wrecked or captured returned to France.

On 13 April 1796, off the coasts of Ireland, his squadron captured the French frigate Unité, and the Virginie nine days later.

He was the son of Tomé Ferreira Drumond, a wealthy landowner, and his wife Rita de Cássia, who delivered Francisco at home on 21 January 1796 and baptized six days later.

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.

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 – Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio " Cleveland " after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.

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.

At the Battle of Theiningen ( 1796 ), Bernadotte contributed, more than anyone else, to the successful retreat of the French army over the Rhine after its defeat by the Archduke Charles of Austria.

After the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, the VOC was a financial wreck, and after vain attempts by the provincial States of Holland and Zeeland to reorganize it, was nationalised on 1 March 1796 by the new Batavian Republic.

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.

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.

Nine months after the wedding, Caroline gave birth to Princess Charlotte Augusta, George's only legitimate child, at Carlton House on 7 January 1796.

Napoleon descended into Lombardy in 1796 and ruled it until 1815, when the Austrian rule was resumed after the Congress of Vienna.

** named after Bonaparte's victory on May 10, 1796 at the Battle of Lodi

It then became part of the Southwest Territory in 1790, and finally, part of Tennessee after it was admitted to the Union in 1796 as the 16th state.

In 1796, after taking American citizenship, Brunel was appointed Chief Engineer of the city of New York.

On January 1, 1797, the county of Bullitt-named after Thomas Bullitt's nephew and Kentucky's first Lieutenant Governor Alexander Scott Bullitt-was created from land given by Jefferson and Nelson counties through an act approved on December 13, 1796 by the Kentucky General Assembly.

Bonneville County was established in 1911, named after Benjamin Bonneville ( 1796 – 1878 ), a French-born officer in the U. S. Army, fur trapper, and explorer in the American West.

The entire church was again renovated after the 1796 earthquake.

Settled as Lewisburg in 1796, the city was renamed after Trenton, New Jersey in 1819.

They would succeed in 1796, when the community was named after Alton, a small market town in Hampshire, England.

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.

Windham was part of Londonderry until after 1792 and was " duly organized " in 1796.

Poynette was named after Pierre Paquette ( 1796 – 1836 ), one of the early fur traders and settlers of south central Wisconsin.

Latrobe arrived in Norfolk, Virginia in mid-March 1796 after a harrowing four month journey aboard the ship, which was plagued with food shortages and near starvation conditions.