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.

* 6 July 1796 – 1 December 1825: His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Nicholas Pavlovich of Russia

Anthony Wayne ( January 1, 1745 – December 15, 1796 ) was a United States Army general and statesman.

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.

Work commenced in December 1796 with much of the timber building prefabricated in London and assembled on site.

Warren County became the 23rd county of Kentucky on December 14, 1796, from a section of Logan County.

Garrard County was formed on December 17, 1796 from parts of Lincoln County, Madison County and Mercer County.

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.

Robert Pagan was born in Scotland on December 3, 1796.

On December 8, 1796, the General Assembly authorized eight commissioners to establish at Boyd's Ferry on the south side of the Dan River the town of South Boston, named for Boston, Massachusetts.

He died in December of the following year, but work continued until the main line reached Hockley Heath in May 1796, one mile ( 1. 6 km ) short of the first lock at Lapworth.

He soon attracted the special attention of Napoleon Bonaparte, who made him a general of division in December 1796, and repeatedly selected him for the command of important detachments.

On 15 December 1796, the expedition, consisting of forty-three sail and carrying about 14, 000 men with a large supply of war material for distribution in Ireland, sailed from Brest.

), The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Volume II: America, France, and Bantry Bay, August 1795 to December 1796 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001 ).

* December 6-Giovanni Pacini, composer ( b. 1796 )

The result of the Hamburg negotiations was Hoche's abortive expedition to Bantry Bay in December 1796.

* David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield ( 17 December 1794 – 21 September 1796 )

* December 30-Christian Winther, lyric poet ( born 1796 )

They will inspire a major controversy when published on 24 December ( dated 1796 ).

In 1782 he first exhibited at the Royal Academy and in December of that year was married to Mary Bunn-though the match proved to be an unhappy one and they were eventually divorced in 1796 after her elopement.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton ( December 17, 1796 – August 27, 1865 ) was a politician, judge, and author in the British Colony of Nova Scotia.

George Catlin ( July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872 ) was an American painter, author and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West.

In 1795 King Frederick William II appointed Louis as Chief of the Dragoons Regiment No. 1, which was stationed in Schwedt, and one year later, on 23 December 1796, he died of diphtheria.

On 24 December 1795, Samuel Ireland published his own book about the papers, a lavishly illustrated and expensively produced set of facsimiles and transcriptions of the papers called Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare ( the book bears the publication date 1796 ).

Was not this dropped primarily in order to `` appease '' the Chinese -- especially after `` Khrushchev's `` humiliating '' surrender to the West in canceling the German peace-treaty deadline of December 31??

If you use a fiscal year, a year ending on the last day of any month other than December, your return is due on or before the 15th day of the 4th month after the close of your tax year.

Cape Verde signed a friendship accord with Angola in December 1975, shortly after Angola gained its independence.

Johnston remained on his plantation after the war until he was appointed by President Taylor to the U. S. Army as a major and was made a paymaster in December 1849.

Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, then took command of the troops of the league, and after Albert had been placed under the imperial ban in December 1553 he was defeated by Duke Henry, and compelled to flee to France.

# Count Albert of Ballenstedt ( died after 6 December 1172 )

Afonso died shortly after, on 6 December 1185.

Within a few days after Canovas del Castillo took power as Premier, the new king, proclaimed on 29 December 1874, arrived at Madrid, passing through Barcelona and Valencia and was acclaimed everywhere ( 1875 ).

Alexander Selkirk ( 1676 – 13 December 1721 ) was a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway after being marooned on an uninhabited island.

On 11 December 1885, after a speech by Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen unveiled a bronze statue and plaque of Alexander Selkirk outside a house on the site of Selkirk's original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.

On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.

On 5 December 2009 AZ announced that Koeman no longer was in charge of AZ, after losing 7 of the first 16 games in the Dutch competition.

Soon after 21: 00 on December 14, 1989, Sakharov went to his study to take a nap before preparing an important speech he was to deliver the next day in the Congress.

ARIN opened its doors for business on December 22, 1997 after incorporating on April 18, 1997.

Urban Dance Squad was a Dutch rap rock band formed after what was originally intended as a one-time jam-session at a festival in Utrecht on December 20, 1986.

Caroline died after only one year of marriage, on 28 December 1782 having succumbed to smallpox.

It is named after the city of Berkeley, California, the location of the University of California Radiation Laboratory where it was discovered in December 1949.

In December 2011, more than a year after the official reboot announcement, the Los Angeles Times site reported that Whit Anderson, the writer picked for the new Buffy movie, had her script rejected by the producers behind the project, and that a new writer was being sought.

Though only a minority of the population, the movement rebelled on Sunday 7 December, the day after the news of the coup arrived.

Today, Boxing Day is better known as a bank or public holiday that occurs on 26 December, or the first or second weekday after Christmas Day, depending on national or regional laws.

Boxing Day is a secular holiday that is traditionally celebrated on 26 December, the day after Christmas Day, which is also St. Stephen's Day, a religious holiday.

While Boxing Day is 26 December, many retailers who hold Boxing Day Sales will run the sales for several days before or after 26 December, often up to New Year's Eve.

The Bronze Star Medal may be awarded by the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Homeland Security with regard to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy, or by such military commanders, or other appropriate officers as the Secretary concerned may designate, to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard of the United States, after 6 December 1941, distinguishes, or has distinguished, himself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight —

The Bronze Star Medal ( without the " V " device ) may be awarded to each member of the Armed Forces of the United States who, after 6 December 1941, was cited in orders or awarded a certificate for exemplary conduct in ground combat against an armed enemy after 7 December 1941.