Year 1796 ( MDCCXCVI ) was a leap year starting on Friday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Young began to study medicine in London in 1792, moved to Edinburgh in 1794, and a year later went to Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany where he obtained the degree of doctor of physics in 1796.

The county was initially organized as Tennessee County, North Carolina, but its name was changed in 1796, the year that Tennessee was admitted as a state, to reduce confusion.

The last duke, Ercole III, was deposed in 1796 by the French and his two duchies became the Cispadane Republic which one year later was merged into the Cisalpine Republic and then into the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy.

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.

In 1796, Ugo Foscolo ( 1778 – 1827 ) wrote a tragedy called Tieste that was represented first in Venice one year later.

Latrobe in all probability made the acquaintance of Jane Grey Shore Haxall when he visited Petersburg in 1796 and went to the horse races with Thomas Shore on April 21 of that year according to his Journal.

In the year 1796, one of the early land speculators, John Gray Blount, paid for 326, 640 acres ( 1322 km² ) of land, a portion of which later became Yancey County, N. C.

* 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.

Settled that same year, it would be incorporated as Colebrook June 11, 1796, and was for many years the shire town of the Northern Judicial District of Coos County.

When the Western Reserve began being surveyed in 1796, what is now Munroe Falls was mostly in the southern part of the survey township Town 3, Range 10 ( later to be Stow Township ), then a part of Washington County before being placed in the new Jefferson County the following year.

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.

The monks were expulsed from the abbey in 1796 and most of the buildings demolished the following year.

Some of his contemporaries alleged that this was the reason behind Barras ' nomination of Bonaparte to the command of the army of Italy early in the year 1796.

In his second paper in the year 1796, he would describe and analyze a large skeleton found in Paraguay, which he would name Megatherium.

In 1796 he returned to France, and next year he was sent by Lyon as a deputy to the Council of the Five Hundred.

In 1796, Fuller was appointed High Sheriff of Sussex, for a period of one year, and in 1798, he became a captain in the Sussex Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry.

In 1792 he emigrated, and in the next year settled in Gotha, where his poverty was relieved by Catherine, who in 1796 appointed him minister of Russia at Hamburg.

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.

On November 1, 1796, in accordance with the will of his father, Gustav IV, now in his eighteenth year, took the government into his own hands.

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.

In 1796 he became a King ’ s Counsel and had an income of about £ 1000 a year.

York became the capital of Upper Canada on February 1, 1796, the year Governor Simcoe returned to Britain and was temporarily replaced by Peter Russell.

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

he became Otto Klemperer's personal assistant at the Cologne Opera, and a year later was promoted to the position of regular conductor.

He was not enthusiastic over the newly acquired Claude Lorrain, but reminisced with pleasure over a Poussin exhibit he had been able to see in Paris a year ago.

After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

A year ago, when I met with you, the nation was emerging from an economic downturn, even though the signs of resurgent prosperity were not then sufficiently convincing to the doubtful.

`` Don't forget, here was a man who had been accusing his colleagues for almost a year of willfully attempting to present an incorrect report.

It was a merry if somewhat soggy Christmas for me that year.

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

Alexander Vasilievitch Suvorov, now in his fifty-ninth year ( ten years Potemkin's senior ), was a thin, worn-faced person of less than medium height who looked like a professor of botany.

He rose at 4:00 A.M. the year round and was apt to stride through camp crowing like a cock to wake his men.

So persistent were these attacks that in March of the following year, Woodruff was finally moved to action, and Pike was to learn his first lesson in frontier politics, the subtle art of diversion.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

But he was happy to tell her that his finances were now in such condition that he could go back to Harvard for a third year with Professor Baker.

It was in the spring of the year when he took to his bed and Tessie and Alfred found out that they didn't know each other.

In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.

As the total number of incepting bachelors in 1629 was, according to Masson ( Life, 1:218 ) and n, two hundred fifty-nine, the twenty-four names listed in the ordo senioritatis for that year constitute slightly less than one tenth of the total number of bachelors who then incepted.

Christ's College was well represented that year in the ordo, and the name highest on the list from that college was Milton's, fourth in the entire university.

Nothing was going to be done this year to celebrate Garibaldi's bold and unsuccessful defense of Rome.

Until the last year or so the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession was accepted here as evidence of his good character.