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See also:1794 in France,other events of 1795,1796 in France.----Events from the year 1795 in France.-Events:*16 January - French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands.*17 January - Revolution breaks out in Amsterdam....
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Events from the year 1796 in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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Events
- 9 March - WidowWidowA widow is a woman whose spouse has died, while a widower is a man whose spouse has died. The state of having lost one's spouse to death is termed widowhood or occasionally viduity. The adjective form is widowed...
Joséphine de BeauharnaisJoséphine de BeauharnaisJoséphine de Beauharnais was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, and thus the first Empress of the French. Her first husband Alexandre de Beauharnais had been guillotined during the Reign of Terror, and she had been imprisoned in the Carmes prison until her release five days after Alexandre's...
marries GeneralGeneralA general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....
Napoléon Bonaparte. - 12 April - Battle of MontenotteBattle of MontenotteThe Battle of Montenotte was fought on 12 April 1796, during the French Revolutionary Wars, between the French army under General Napoleon Bonaparte and an Austrian corps under Count Eugène-Guillaume Argenteau. The battle was fought near the village of Cairo Montenotte, in northwestern Italy, and...
, French victory over AustriaAustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
and Sardinian forces. Napoleon Bonaparte's first victory as an army commander. - 13 April - Battle of MillesimoBattle of MillesimoThe Battle of Millesimo, fought on 13 and 14 April 1796, was the name that Napoleon Bonaparte gave in his correspondence to one of a series of small battles that were fought in Piedmont, Northern Italy between the armies of France and the allied armies of Austria and of the Kingdom of...
, French victory against Austrian and Sardinian forces. - 14 April-15 April - Second Battle of DegoSecond Battle of DegoThe Second Battle of Dego was fought on 14 and 15 April 1796 during the French Revolutionary Wars between French forces and Austro-Sardinian forces...
, French victory over Austro-Sardinian forces. - 21 April - Battle of MondovìBattle of MondoviThe Battle of Mondovì was fought on 21 April 1796 between the French army of Napoleon Bonaparte and the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont led by Michelangelo Alessandro Colli-Marchi. The French victory meant that they had put the Ligurian Alps behind them, while the plains of Piedmont lay...
, French victory over the Kingdom of SardiniaKingdom of SardiniaThe Kingdom of Sardinia consisted of the island of Sardinia first as a part of the Crown of Aragon and subsequently the Spanish Empire , and second as a part of the composite state of the House of Savoy . Its capital was originally Cagliari, in the south of the island, and later Turin, on the...
. - 10 May - Battle of LodiBattle of LodiThe Battle of Lodi was fought on May 10, 1796 between French forces under General Napoleon Bonaparte and an Austrian rear guard led by Karl Philipp Sebottendorf at Lodi, Lombardy...
, French victory over Austria. - 15 May - French troops take MilanMilanMilan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
. - 15 May - Treaty of ParisTreaty of Paris (1796)The Treaty of Paris of May 15, 1796 was a treaty between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia during the War of the First Coalition....
signed between France and Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia. - 5 July - Battle of RastattBattle of Rastatt (1796)The Battle of Rastatt was fought on July 5, 1796, and resulted in the victory of French under General Moreau against Austrians under Archduke Charles of Austria....
, French victory against Austria. - 5 August - Battle of CastiglioneBattle of CastiglioneThe Battle of Castiglione saw the French Army of Italy under General Napoleon Bonaparte attack an army of Habsburg Austria led by Feldmarschall Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser on 5 August 1796. The outnumbered Austrians were defeated and driven back along a line of hills to the river crossing at...
, French victory over Austria. - 11 August - Battle of Neresheim, French victory over Austria.
- 19 August - Second Treaty of San IldefonsoSecond Treaty of San IldefonsoThe Second Treaty of San Ildefonso was signed on August 19, 1796 between the Spanish Empire and the First French Republic. Based on the terms of the agreement, France and Spain would become allies and combine their forces against the British Empire.-See also:...
, signed by France and SpainSpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, to ally against Great BritainGreat BritainGreat Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
. - 24 August - Battle of Amberg, Austrian victory over French forces.
- 3 September - Battle of WürzburgBattle of WürzburgThe Battle of Würzburg was fought on 3 September 1796 between an army of Habsburg Austria led by Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen and an army of the First French Republic led by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan. The French attacked the archduke's forces, but they were resisted until the arrival of...
, Austrian victory over France. - 4 September - Battle of RoveretoBattle of RoveretoIn the Battle of Rovereto on 4 September 1796 a French army commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte defeated an Austrian corps led by Paul Davidovich during the War of the First Coalition, part of the French Revolutionary Wars...
, French victory against Austria. - 8 September - Battle of BassanoBattle of BassanoThe Battle of Bassano was fought on 8 September 1796, during the French Revolutionary Wars, in the territory of the Republic of Venice, between a French army under Napoleon Bonaparte and Austrian forces led by Count Dagobert von Wurmser. The battle ended in a French victory...
, French victory over Austrian forces. - 15 November-17 November - Battle of the Bridge of ArcoleBattle of the Bridge of ArcoleThe Battle of Arcole, or Battle of Arcola saw a bold manœuvre by Napoleon Bonaparte's French Army of Italy to outflank the Austrian army under József Alvinczi and cut its line of retreat...
, French victory over Austria.
Births
- 22 February - Alexis BachelotAlexis BachelotAlexis John Augustine Bachelot was a Roman Catholic priest best known for his tenure as the first Prefect Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands. In that role, he led the first Catholic mission to the Kingdom of Hawaii....
, Roman Catholic priest and Prefect Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands (present Hawaii) (d.18371837 in FranceSee also:1836 in France,other events of 1837,1838 in France.----Events from the year 1837 in France.-Events:*30 May - Treaty of Tafna signed by France and Abd-el-Kader, after French forces sustained heavy losses and military reversals in Algeria....
). - 17 March - Jean-François BayardJean-François BayardJean-François Alfred Bayard was a French playwright.-Life:As a law student and a lawyer's clerk, Bayard wrote with passion for the theatre and, after several attempts, had a great success at the Gymnase theatre, with la Reine de seize ans...
, playwright (d.18531853 in FranceSee also:1852 in France,other events of 1853,1854 in France.----Events from the year 1853 in France.-Events:*6 December - Taiping Rebellion: French minister de Bourboulon arrives at the Heavenly Capital aboard the Cassini.-Births:...
). - 31 March - Philippe BuchezPhilippe BuchezPhilippe-Joseph-Benjamin Buchez , more commonly called Philippe Buchez, was a French historian, sociologist, and politician. He was the founder of the newspaper, L'Atelier, and he served briefly, in 1848, as the president of the Constituent National Assembly, which was then meeting at the Palais...
, author and politician (d.18661866 in FranceSee also:1865 in France,other events of 1866,1867 in France.----Events from the year 1866 in France.-Events:*31 May - Napoleon III announces the withdrawal of French forces in the French intervention in Mexico.*26 July - French evacuate Monterrey....
). - 1 June - Nicolas Léonard Sadi CarnotNicolas Léonard Sadi CarnotNicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot was a French military engineer who, in his 1824 Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire, gave the first successful theoretical account of heat engines, now known as the Carnot cycle, thereby laying the foundations of the second law of thermodynamics...
, physicistPhysicistA physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
and military engineerMilitary engineerIn military science, engineering refers to the practice of designing, building, maintaining and dismantling military works, including offensive, defensive and logistical structures, to shape the physical operating environment in war...
(d.18321832 in FranceSee also:1830 in France,other events of 1832,1833 in France.----Events from the year 1832 in France.-Events:*5 June - Anti-monarchist June Rebellion briefly breaks out in Paris....
). - 24 June - Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de PalikaoCharles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de PalikaoCharles Guillaume Marie Appollinaire Antoine Cousin Montauban, comte de Palikao was a French general and statesman.-Biography:Montauban was born in Paris. As a cavalry officer he saw much service in Algeria, but he was still only a colonel when in 1847 he effected the capture of Abdel Kadir...
, general and statesman (d.18781878 in FranceSee also:1877 in France,other events of 1878,1879 in France.----Events from the year 1878 in France.-Events:*1 May - Exposition Universelle opened in Paris.*10 November - Exposition Universelle closed.-January to June:...
). - 17 July - Jean-Baptiste-Camille CorotJean-Baptiste-Camille CorotJean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century...
, painter (d.18751875 in FranceSee also:1874 in France,other events of 1875,1876 in France.----Events from the year 1875 in France.-Arts and literature:*3 March - The first performance of Bizet’s Carmen at the Opéra Comique, Paris.-Births:...
). - 24 September - Antoine-Louis BaryeAntoine-Louis BaryeAntoine-Louis Barye was a French sculptor most famous for his work as an animalier, a sculptor of animals.-Biography:Born in Paris, Barye began his career as a goldsmith, like many sculptors of the Romantic Period...
, sculptor (d.18751875 in FranceSee also:1874 in France,other events of 1875,1876 in France.----Events from the year 1875 in France.-Arts and literature:*3 March - The first performance of Bizet’s Carmen at the Opéra Comique, Paris.-Births:...
). - 6 November - Jean-Claude-Léonard Baveux, priest and missionary in CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
(d.18651865 in FranceSee also:1864 in France,other events of 1865,1866 in France.----Events from the year 1865 in France.-Births:*20 January - Yvette Guilbert, singer and actress .*9 June - Albéric Magnard, composer ....
). - 21 November - Jean Zuléma AmussatJean Zuléma AmussatJean Zuléma Amussat was a French surgeon.Amussat was born in Saint-Maixent, Deux-Sèvres. He became a renowned physician whose primary contributions were in the field of genitourinary surgery. Most of his work was through a private practice he held in Paris...
, surgeon (d.18561856 in FranceSee also:1855 in France,other events of 1856,1857 in France.----Events from the year 1856 in France.-Events:*30 March - Treaty of Paris is signed by Russia and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia, France, and the United Kingdom, settling the Crimean War.-Births:*1 February -...
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- Auguste-Marseille BarthélemyAuguste-Marseille BarthelemyAuguste-Marseille Barthélemy , born at Marseilles, was a French satirical poet. His name can hardly be separated from that of his friend and compatriot, Joseph Méry , with whom he carried on so intimate a collaboration that it is not possible to distinguish their personalities in their joint...
, satirical poet (d.18671867 in FranceSee also:1866 in France,other events of 1867,1868 in France.----Events from the year 1867 in France.-Events:*13 January - French Military Mission arrives in Yokohama, Japan.*7 June - Adolphe Dugléré prepares the Three Emperors Dinner...
). - Louis Eugène Marie BautainLouis Eugène Marie BautainLouis Eugène Marie Bautain , French philosopher and theologian, was born at Paris.At the École Normale he came under the influence of Victor Cousin. In 1816 he adopted the profession of higher teaching, and was soon after called to the chair of philosophy in the university of Strasbourg...
, philosopher and theologian (d.18671867 in FranceSee also:1866 in France,other events of 1867,1868 in France.----Events from the year 1867 in France.-Events:*13 January - French Military Mission arrives in Yokohama, Japan.*7 June - Adolphe Dugléré prepares the Three Emperors Dinner...
). - Joseph Paul GaimardJoseph Paul GaimardJoseph Paul Gaimard was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.Along with Jean René Constant Quoy he served as naturalist on the ships L'Uranie under Louis de Freycinet 1817-1820, and L'Astrolabe under Jules Dumont d'Urville 1826-1829...
, naturalistNatural historyNatural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...
(d.18581858 in FranceSee also:1857 in France,other events of 1858,1859 in France.----Events from the year 1858 in France.-Events:*14 January - Felice Orsini and his accomplices fail to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris but their bombs kill 156 bystanders...
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Deaths
- 1 January - Alexandre-Théophile VandermondeAlexandre-Théophile VandermondeAlexandre-Théophile Vandermonde was a French musician, mathematician and chemist who worked with Bézout and Lavoisier; his name is now principally associated with determinant theory in mathematics. He was born in Paris, and died there.Vandermonde was a violinist, and became engaged with...
, musicianMusicianA musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
and chemistChemistA chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...
(b.1735). - 8 January - Jean-Marie Collot d'HerboisJean-Marie Collot d'HerboisJean-Marie Collot d'Herbois was a French actor, dramatist, essayist, and revolutionary. He was a member of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror and, while he saved Madame Tussaud from the Guillotine, he administered the execution of more than 2,000 people in the city of...
, actor, dramatist, essayist, and revolutionaryFrench RevolutionThe French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...
(b.1749). - 23 February - Jean-Nicolas StoffletJean-Nicolas StoffletJean-Nicolas Stofflet was a French leader of the Revolt in the Vendée against the First French Republic.Born in Bathelémont-lès-Bauzemont , the son of a miller, he was for long a private in the Swiss Guard, and afterwards gamekeeper to the comte de Colbert-Maulévrier, he joined the Vendéans when...
, leader of Revolt in the VendéeRevolt in the VendéeThe War in the Vendée was a Royalist rebellion and counterrevolution in the Vendée region of France during the French Revolution. The Vendée is a coastal region, located immediately south of the Loire River in western France. The uprising was closely tied to the Chouannerie, which took place in...
(b.1751). - 6 March - Guillaume Thomas François RaynalGuillaume Thomas François RaynalGuillaume Thomas Raynal was a French writer and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment.He was born at Lapanouse in Rouergue...
, writer (b.1711). - 26 March - François de CharetteFrançois de CharetteFrançois Athanase de Charette de la Contrie was a French soldier and politician, one of the leaders of the bloody events termed the "Revolt in the Vendée"...
, soldier and politician (b.1763). - 1 May - Alexandre Guy PingréAlexandre Guy PingréAlexandre Guy Pingré was a French astronomer, priest, and naval geographer.He was born in Paris, France, and was educated at Senlis, where he became professor of theology in 1735. At an early age he had developed an interest in astronomy, and in 1749 he was appointed professor of astronomy at the...
, astronomerAstronomerAn astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...
and naval geographerGeographerA geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...
(b.1711). - 30 July - Nicolas de PigageNicolas de PigageNicolas de Pigage was a French builder.Pigage was born in Lunéville. His father was a stonemason. In 1743 he began his studies at the École Militaire changing to the Académie Royale d'Architecture after only one year studying under Jacques-François Blondel...
, architect (b.1723). - 21 September - François Séverin Marceau-DesgraviersFrançois Séverin Marceau-DesgraviersFrançois Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers was a French general of the Revolutionary Wars.-Early life:Desgraviers was born at Chartres, Eure-et-Loir. His father served as a legal officer, and Marceau received an education for a legal career, but at the age of sixteen he enlisted in the regiment of...
, General (b.17691769 in FranceSee also:1768 in France,other events of 1769,1770 in France.----Events from the year 1769 in France.-Events:*8 May - Battle of Ponte Novu begins between royal French forces and the native Corsicans....
). - 27 September - Jean-Bernard Gauthier de MurnanJean-Bernard Gauthier de MurnanJean-Bernard Gauthier de Murnan was a French officer for the Continental Army and a French General during the French Revolution....
, General (b.1748). - 16 October - Antoine-Joseph PernetyAntoine-Joseph PernetyAntoine-Joseph Pernety, known as Dom Pernety was a French writer. At various times he was a Benedictine, and librarian of Frederic the Great of Prussia...
, writer (b.17161716 in FranceSee also:1715 in France,other events of 1716,1717 in France.----Events from the year 1716 in France.-Births:*20 January - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, writer and numismatist .*29 May - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, naturalist ....
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- Jean AvisseJean AvisseJean Avisse produced chairs, sofas, chaises and similar furniture in 18th century France.His chairs are elaborately decorated with natural images such as shells, flowers, and leaves. He stamped his work with the signature IAVISSE. Reproductions in his style are often called Avisse.He was not very...
, furniture maker (b.1723). - Jean Théophile Victor LeclercJean Theophile Victor LeclercJean Théophile Victor Leclerc, aka Jean-Theophilus Leclerc and Theophilus Leclerc d'Oze , was a radical French revolutionist and publicist...
, revolutionaryFrench RevolutionThe French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...
and publicist (b.1771). - Pierre-Marie-Jérôme TrésaguetPierre-Marie-Jérôme TrésaguetPierre-Marie-Jérôme Trésaguet was a French engineer. He is widely credited with establishing the first scientific approach to road building about the year 1764. Among his innovations was the use of a base layer of large stone covered with a thin layer of smaller stone...
, engineer (b.17161716 in FranceSee also:1715 in France,other events of 1716,1717 in France.----Events from the year 1716 in France.-Births:*20 January - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, writer and numismatist .*29 May - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, naturalist ....
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