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Events from the year
1796
in
Great Britain
.
Incumbents
Monarch
–
George III
Prime Minister
–
William Pitt the Younger
(
Tory
)
[
1
]
Foreign Secretary
–
Lord Grenville
Events
23 January – troopship wrecked on
Loe Bar
, Cornwall, with loss of over 600 lives.
[
2
]
1 February – protests over the price of bread culminate in
Queen Charlotte
being hit by a stone as she and
King George
return from a trip to the theatre.
[
3
]
16 February – Britain takes control of
Ceylon
from the
Batavian Republic
[
4
]
following the previous day's peaceful surrender of
Colombo
to
Major-General James Stuart
, ending the
Invasion of Ceylon (1795)
.
29 February – ratifications of the
Jay Treaty
between Great Britain and the United States are officially exchanged, bringing it into effect.
[
5
]
Britain vacates the forts it has been retaining in the
Great Lakes
region.
14 May –
Edward Jenner
successfully administers the
smallpox vaccine
to
James Phipps
in
Gloucestershire
.
[
6
]
20 May – the last mock
Garrat Elections
are held in
Surrey
.
21 June – explorer
Mungo Park
becomes the first European to reach the
Niger River
.
[
4
]
9 August – opening to traffic of
Wearmouth Bridge
, designed by
Rowland Burdon
in
cast iron
. Its span of 237 feet (72 m) makes it the world's longest single-span vehicular bridge extant at this date.
[
7
]
[
8
]
19 August – by the
Second Treaty of San Ildefonso
,
Spain
and
France
form an alliance against Great Britain.
20 August – a meeting intended to be addressed by radical
John Thelwall
at
Great Yarmouth
is violently broken up by Royal Navy sailors.
[
9
]
22 September
Frigate
HMS
Amphion
blows up while preparing for sea at
Plymouth
, killing 300 out of the 312 aboard.
Mary Lamb
commits
matricide
in London.
[
10
]
5 October –
Anglo-Spanish War
: Spain declares war on Britain.
[
3
]
December – the government begins work on a 40-acre (162,000 m
2
) site at
Norman Cross
for the world's first purpose-built
prisoner-of-war camp
.
[
11
]
18 December –
HMS
Courageux
is wrecked on the
Barbary Coast
with the loss of 464 of the 593 on board.
Undated
Summer –
Ribchester
Hoard and
helmet
found in
Lancashire
.
Kendal Museum
opened in Westmorland.
The Retreat
established in
York
; it pioneers the humane treatment of people with
mental disorders
.
Last resident family leaves
St Ninian's Isle
.
Earliest known reference to the sea song
Spanish Ladies
.
[
12
]
Ongoing
French Revolutionary Wars
,
First Coalition
.
Publications
Fanny Burney
's novel
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
.
Mary Hays
'
epistolary novel
Memoirs of Emma Courtney
.
The popular
Gothic novels
Matthew Lewis
's
The Monk
and
Regina Maria Roche
's
The Children of the Abbey
.
[
13
]
Samuel Ireland
publishes a collection of
Shakespearean forgeries
in his
Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments Under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare
(dated this year but actually issued on 24 December 1795).
Edmond Malone
exposes them in his
An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Certain Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments
on 31 March, and the forged 'Shakespearean' play,
Vortigern and Rowena
, is able to sustain just a single performance at the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
, London, on 2 April. Ireland's son,
William Henry
, confesses to the fraud in
An Authentic Account of the Shakespearean Manuscripts
.
The volume of
The
Scots Musical Museum
published this year includes
Robert Burns
' versions of
Auld Lang Syne
and
Charlie Is My Darling
.
[
14
]
Births
25 January –
William MacGillivray
, naturalist and ornithologist (died
1852
)
10 February –
Henry De la Beche
, geologist (died
1855
)
17 February –
Frederick William Beechey
, explorer (died
1856
)
March –
Durham Ox
,
shorthorn
bull (killed
1807
)
27 June –
George Vincent
, painter (died
1831
)
22 August –
Baden Powell
, mathematician (died
1860
)
25 August –
Edwin Beard Budding
, inventor (died
1846
)
August –
William Marsden
, surgeon (died
1867
)
4 September
(bapt.)
–
Henry Foster
, scientist (died
1831
)
13 September –
James Finlay Weir Johnston
, chemist (died
1855
)
14 September –
Woodbine Parish
, diplomat (died
1882
)
9 October –
Fitzroy Kelly
, lawyer and Member of Parliament, last Chief Baron of the Exchequer (died
1880
)
17 October –
James Matheson
, Member of Parliament (died
1878
)
December
(approximate date)
–
William Banting
, undertaker and dietician (died 1878)
Deaths
12 February –
John Hamilton
, Member of Parliament (born
1715
)
17 February –
James Macpherson
, Scottish poet, "translator" of
Ossian
(born
1736
)
[
15
]
19 March
Hugh Palliser
, naval officer and administrator (born
1722
)
Stephen Storace
, theatre composer (born
1762
)
27 May –
Lord Charles Townshend
, Member of Parliament (born
1769
)
16 July –
George Howard
, Army officer and politician (born
1718
)
21 July –
Robert Burns
, national poet of Scotland (born
1759
)
[
16
]
1 August –
Robert Pigot
, Army officer and Member of Parliament (born
1720
)
6 August –
David Allan
, painter (born
1744
)
12 August –
Richard Beckford
, member of parliament
1 September –
David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield
, politician (born
1727
)
October –
Thomas Christie
, writer (born
1761
)
12 December –
William Wilson
, Member of Parliament (born
1720
)
See also
1796 in Wales
List of MPs elected in the British general election, 1796
References
^
"History of William Pitt 'The Younger' - GOV.UK"
.
www.gov.uk
. Retrieved
1 July
2023
.
^
Treglown, Tony (2011).
Porthleven in years gone by Local Shipwrecks
. Ashton: Tony Treglown.
ISBN
978-0-9539019-7-5
.
^
a
b
Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).
The Chronology of British History
. London: Century Ltd. p. 235.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2
.
^
a
b
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p.
346
.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
^
Lossing, Benson John; Wilson, Woodrow, eds. (1910).
Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1909
. Harper & Brothers. p. 171.
^
Penguin Pocket On This Day
. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0
.
^
Troyano, Leonardo Fernández (2003).
Bridge Engineering: a Global Perspective
. London: Thomas Telford Publishing. p. 49.
ISBN
0-7277-3215-3
.
^
"Sunderland Wearmouth Bridge"
.
Wearside Online
. Archived from
the original
on 2011-11-27
. Retrieved
2011-08-16
.
^
Davies, Paul P. (2023). "The bloody riot of 20th August 1796 on Deneside".
Yarmouth Archaology & Local History
: 104–7.
^
Hitchcock, Susan Tyler (2005).
Mad Mary Lamb
. New York; London: W. W. Norton & Co. pp.
15
–17.
ISBN
0-393-05741-0
.
^
Historic England
.
"Site of the Norman Cross Depot for Prisoners of War, Non Civil Parish (1006782)"
.
National Heritage List for England
. Retrieved
2019-11-08
.
^
Palmer, Roy, ed. (1986).
The Oxford Book of Sea Songs
. Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-214159-7
.
^
Leavis, Q. D.
(1965).
Fiction and the Reading Public
(rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
^
"Robert Burns"
.
BBC
. Retrieved
2012-01-26
.
^
Magnusson, Magnus
(2007) [2006].
Fakers, Forgers & Phoneys
. Edinburgh: Mainstream.
ISBN
978-1-84596-210-4
.
^
"Robert Burns (1759-1796)"
.
National Records of Scotland
. 31 May 2013
. Retrieved
27 January
2023
.
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