Year by year · 18th century

1796

1796 in world history: 16 events, 8 births, 8 deaths, 1 work, 5 states founded and 6 that came to an end. 1,264 recorded states existed that year.

Events

  1. 9 March

    Napoleon Bonaparte marries Joséphine de Beauharnais

    The civil wedding in Paris took place two days before Napoleon left to command the Army of Italy. Joséphine became empress in 1804, but he divorced her in 1810 for lack of an heir.

    NapoleonParis

  2. 14 May

    Edward Jenner performs the first vaccination

    Jenner inoculated eight-year-old James Phipps with cowpox and later showed the boy was immune to smallpox. Vaccination spread worldwide, and smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980.

  3. 1 June

    Tennessee becomes the 16th US state

    Tennessee was the first state created from a federal territory, the Territory South of the River Ohio. It later produced three presidents: Andrew Jackson, James Polk and Andrew Johnson.

  4. 19 September

    George Washington's Farewell Address is published

    Washington announced he would not seek a third term in an address printed in a Philadelphia newspaper. He warned against party faction and permanent foreign alliances.

  5. Treaty · Peace

    Armistice of Cherasco

    The Armistice of Cherasco was signed on 28 April 1796 between Napoleon Bonaparte and the Kingdom of Sardinia of Victor Amadeus III, after a two-week French campaign in Piedmont.

  6. Battle

    Battle of Lodi

    The Battle of Lodi was fought on 10 May 1796 at the bridge over the Adda at Lodi in Lombardy, when Napoleon Bonaparte's French army stormed the crossing against the rearguard of the retreating Austrian army.

  7. Battle

    Battle of Bziyuk

    The Battle of Bziyuk was fought in 1796 in western Circassia, on the Bziyuk river, between the free communities of the Shapsugs and Natukhaj and the forces of the Circassian princes and nobles, led by the Bzhedug aristocracy.

  8. Battle

    Battle of Bziyuqo

    The Battle of Bziyuqo was fought in 1796 in western Circassia between the commoners of the Shapsug and Natukhaj tribes and an alliance of Circassian nobles, including the princes of the Bzhedugh.

  9. Battle

    Battle of Krusi

    The Battle of Krusi was fought on 22 September 1796 near Podgorica between the Montenegrins under Prince-Bishop Petar I Petrović-Njegoš and the army of Kara Mahmud Pasha Bushati of Scutari.

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In the profiles

  • Afsharid EmpireAgha Mohammad Khan Qajar takes Mashhad; Shahrokh dies, ending the dynasty
  • Duchy of MilanNapoleon enters Milan; the Transpadane Republic replaces the duchy
  • Qajar IranAgha Mohammad Khan is crowned shah

Wars and longer events

Born in 1796 8

Died in 1796 8

Works 1

States founded 5

States that came to an end 6

Great speeches

Napoleon to the Army of ItalyNapoleon

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