1796

1796 (MDCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1796th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 796th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1796, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1796 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1796 MDCCXCVI
French Republican calendar	4–5
Ab urbe condita	2549
Armenian calendar	1245 ԹՎ ՌՄԽԵ
Assyrian calendar	6546
Balinese saka calendar	1717–1718
Bengali calendar	1203
Berber calendar	2746
British Regnal year	36 Geo. 3 – 37 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2340
Burmese calendar	1158
Byzantine calendar	7304–7305
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 4492 or 4432     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 4493 or 4433
Coptic calendar	1512–1513
Discordian calendar	2962
Ethiopian calendar	1788–1789
Hebrew calendar	5556–5557
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1852–1853
- Shaka Samvat	1717–1718
- Kali Yuga	4896–4897
Holocene calendar	11796
Igbo calendar	796–797
Iranian calendar	1174–1175
Islamic calendar	1210–1211
Japanese calendar	Kansei 8 (寛政８年)
Javanese calendar	1722–1723
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4129
Minguo calendar	116 before ROC 民前116年
Nanakshahi calendar	328
Thai solar calendar	2338–2339
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Wood-Hare) 1922 or 1541 or 769     — to — མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dragon) 1923 or 1542 or 770

Events

• An English doctor invents a vaccination against smallpox.

Births

• January 7-Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales
• July 26 - George Catlin, American painter
• December 27 – Mirza Ghalib, poet of Urdu