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| 1796 |
| | | York House has various owners and tenants, being bought by Count, later Prince, Starhemberg, Austrian Ambassador who instals a private chapel. | |
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| 1796 |
| | | Napoleon marries Josephine de Beauharnais, widow of Alexandre de Beauharnais, guillotined in 1794 | |
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| 1796 |
| | | Napoleon changes the spelling of his family name from Buonaparte to the more French-seeming Bonaparte | |
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| 1796 |
| | | In Berkeley, Gloucestershire, Edward Jenner inoculates a boy with cowpox in the pioneering case of vaccination | |
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| 1796 |
| | | In the armistice of Cherasco the king of Sardinia cedes to France his territories of Savoy and Nice | |
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| 1796 |
| | | Napoleon Bonaparte takes command of the French army of Italy, with astonishingly successful results | |
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| 1796 |
| | | After two rapid victories in north Italy, Napoleon marches on Turin and the king of Sardinia asks for an armistice | |
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| 1796 |
| | | French astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace publishes his nebular hypothesis, arguing that the planets formed from a mass of incandescent gas | |
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| 1796 |
| | | US author Joel Barlow publishes his mock-heroic poem The Hasty Pudding, inspired by a dish eaten in 1793 in France | |
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| 1796 |
| | | George Washington selects the Cherokee Indians for an experiment in adaptation to 'civilization' | |
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