* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )

* 1716 – Felice Giardini, Italian composer and violinist ( d. 1796 )

* 1796 – George N. Briggs, American politician, 19th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1861 )

* 1878 – John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician ( b. 1796 )

* 1720 – Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician ( d. 1796 )

* 1796 – James Lick, American carpenter and piano builder ( d. 1876 )

* 1796 – The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.

* 1724 – Abraham Yates, Jr., American lawyer and civil servant ( 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.

* 1720 – Samuel Whitbread, English politician and brewer, founded Whitbread ( d. 1796 )

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

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia from 1762 – 1796, was a member of the House of Ascania, herself the daughter of Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.

* Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst: 1252 – 1396 and 1544 – 1796

* Russian Empire: 1762 – 1796

* Two poets, Johann Peter Uz ( 1720 – 1796 ) and August von Platen-Hallermünde ( 1790 – 1835 ), were also born there.

#* Julie Joséphine Bonaparte ( 1796 – 1796 )

Robert Burns ( 1759 – 1796 )

* Cyril VII Siaj, Melkite patriarch of Antioch 1794 – 1796

Then in 1743 he further alienated his father by marrying Antoinette Champion ( 1710 – 1796 ), a devout Roman Catholic.

* 1860 – Alfred Bunn, British theatrical manager ( b. 1796 )

* 1865 – Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet ( b. 1796 )

* 1796 – Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet ( d. 1869 )

* 1731 – Samuel Huntington, American politician, 3rd Governor of Connecticut and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ( d. 1796 )

In 1796, Poland Township was the first charted township in the Connecticut Western Reserve.

Samuel Huntington ( January 5, 1796 ) was a jurist, statesman, and Patriot in the American Revolution from Connecticut.

In 1786 he followed Griswold as Governor of Connecticut, and was reelected annually until his death in 1796.

The land currently comprising South Euclid was part of the Western Reserve, obtained via treaty with the Iroqois tribe in 1796 by the Connecticut Land Company.

After being claimed as part of the Connecticut Western Reserve by the Connecticut Land Company in 1796 – 1797, the town of Grandon was platted there on May 16, 1812.

He served again as an Indian Commissioner, and was elected Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut in 1786, assuming the Governorship on the death of Samuel Huntington in 1796, and was reelected to the position, dying in office at the age of seventy-one in Farmington, Connecticut.

Moses Cleaveland, a surveyor charged with exploring the Connecticut Western Reserve, first arrived at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River in 1796, and subsequently decided to locate a settlement there, which became Cleveland, Ohio.

He did not seek re-election for a fourth term and instead ran for the United States Senate, where he was elected and served from March 4, 1795 to June 10, 1796, when he resigned to become Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut.

Hillhouse was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, 1780, United States Congressman from Connecticut at-large, 1791 – 96, and United States Senator from Connecticut, 1796 – 1810.

In 1796 he made an unsuccessful application for admission into the Connecticut conference ; but two years later he was received, and in 1798 — despite the objections of his family — was appointed to be a circuit preacher, on a probationary basis, to the Cambridge circuit in New York.

Old State House ( Hartford ) | Old Connecticut State House, built in 1796

Among his other early works are a memorial column on Beacon Hill ( 1789 ), the first monument to the American Revolution ; the Federal Street theater ( 1793 ); the " Tontine Crescent " ( built 1793 – 1794, now demolished ), fashioned in part after John Wood's Royal Crescent ; the Old State House in Hartford, Connecticut ( 1796 ); and the Massachusetts State House ( 1798 ).

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.

* Sylvanus Selleck Gristmill, a gristmill built in 1796 in Greenwich, Connecticut

Noting the dearth of medical professionals in the rural Connecticut River Upper Valley area, Smith petitioned the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College in August 1796 to fund the establishment of a medical school to train more physicians for the region.

* Henry Dutton ( 1796 – 1869 ), American politician and the 38th Governor of Connecticut

In 1863, Orangeville was named after Orange Lawrence, a businessman born in Connecticut in 1796 who owned several mills in the village.

Moses Cleaveland ( January 29, 1754 – November 16, 1806 ) was a lawyer, politician, soldier, and surveyor from Connecticut who founded the U. S. city of Cleveland, Ohio, while surveying the Western Reserve in 1796.