Born in 1796:
Died in 1796:
Events of 1796:
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George Washington does not run for a third term as President of the
United States. The subsequent election is the first one where
political parties played an important role. State legislatures
choose their electors and the electors vote for a new President.
The results:
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John Adams, Federalist, with 71 electoral votes, elected
President.
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Thomas Jefferson, Republican, with 68, elected
vice-president.
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Thomas Pinckney, Federalist, 59,
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Aaron Burr, Republican, 30.
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Samuel Adams, 15.
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Eight other candidates with 33 votes among them (including 2 cast for Washington).
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(June 1) Tennessee becomes the sixteenth state.
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Under the terms of the Jay Treaty ratified the previous year, Great
Britain surrenders its last military presence in the United States,
Fort Detroit, to General Anthony Wayne.
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France, angered by the Jay Treaty, begins harassing American shipping.
President Washington sends a special commission to France to work things
out, but Foreign Minister Talleyrand stonewalls, and sends three men
to demand a bribe of $250,000.
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Shah Agha Mohammad Khan, of Persia, kills his last political
rival, Lotf Ali Khan, and also conquers Caucasian Georgia.
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Robert Fulton publishes A Treatise On the Improvement of Canal
Navigation.
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(August 19) Spain allies itself with France against Great Britain
with the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
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Napoleon Bonaparte shows his military ability, and evisions his
greatness.
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(March 2) Bonaparte is given command of the French army in Italy.
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(March 9) Napoleon marries Josephine.
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(March 27) He finds his army crawling along the Mediterranean coast, foraging
to stay alive, and ready to mutiny.
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(April 12) 9,000 men under General LeHarpe annihilate an Austrian army
at the Battle of Night Mountain.
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(April 15) 6,000 Austrians are captured at Dego.
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(April 26) Bonaparte, besieging Turin, makes a famous proclamation
to his army about their accomplishents.
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(April 27) King Victor Amadeus of Sardinia is forced to sign an armistice
and take Piedmont out of the war.
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(May 7) The Austrian army retreats toward Lodi. They need to hold
one bridge, but Bonaparte forces it.
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(May 15) Bonaparte's army enters Milan. A Few Austrian soldiers
hold the citadel.
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(May 29) The citadel in Milan surrenders; Josephine visits Napoleon
in Milan.
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(June 1) Bonaparte is nearly captured; he gets away, losing a boot
in the process.
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(June 12) Bonaparte invades the Papal States.
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(June 23) Bonaparte, in control of Florence, the Po valley, and the Papal
States, signs an armistice with Pope Pius VI in Bologna.
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(June 27) Bonaparte caputres Ligorno.
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(July 25) An Austrian force of 24,000 counterattacks and begins to push
the French back.
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(July 31) Bonaparte abandons his siege of Mantua and all of his
siege artillery.
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(August 5) The Austrian army is forced to retreat at Solferino
but are too tired to pursue. By the end of the month, however, they
are marching into the Tyrol.
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(September 5) Trentino occupied.
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(November 4) Trentino abandoned as a fresh Austrian army of 47,000 enters
the theater.
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(November 15-17) A bloody battle near Arcole sees 4,600 French
and 6,000 Austrians killed; the Austrians have to retreat again.
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The Russian city of Ekaterinoslav gets its old name, Dneprpetrovsk,
back.
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The town of Baltimore, Maryland is incorporated as a city.
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