1796 in Great Britain explained
Events from the year 1796 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
Ongoing
Publications
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)[14]
- 19 March
- 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)[15]
- 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
Notes and References
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- Book: Palmer. Alan. Palmer. Veronica. 1992. The Chronology of British History. Century Ltd. London. 235. 0-7126-5616-2.
- Book: Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1909. Lossing. Benson John. Wilson. Woodrow. Harper & Brothers. 1910. 171.
- Book: Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 0-14-102715-0. 2006.
- Book: Williams, Hywel. Cassell's Chronology of World History. registration. London. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2005. 0-304-35730-8. 346.
- Book: Troyano, Leonardo Fernández. Bridge Engineering: a Global Perspective. Thomas Telford Publishing. London. 2003. 0-7277-3215-3. 49.
- Web site: Wearside Online. Sunderland Wearmouth Bridge. 2011-08-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20111127114349/http://www.wearsideonline.com/sunderland_wearmouth_bridge.html. 2011-11-27. dead.
- Davies. Paul P.. The bloody riot of 20th August 1796 on Deneside. Yarmouth Archaology & Local History. 2023. 104-7.
- Book: Hitchcock, Susan Tyler. Mad Mary Lamb. 2005. W. W. Norton & Co. New York; London. 0-393-05741-0. registration. 15–17.
- Book: The Oxford Book of Sea Songs. Palmer. Roy. Oxford University Press. 1986. 0-19-214159-7.
- Book: Leavis, Q. D.. Q. D. Leavis. Fiction and the Reading Public. rev.. London. Chatto & Windus. 1965.
- Web site: Robert Burns. BBC. 2012-01-26.
- Book: Magnusson, Magnus. Magnus Magnusson
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- Web site: Robert Burns (1759-1796) . National Records of Scotland . 27 January 2023 . English . 31 May 2013.