In the year 1796, the capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York (Feb 1), the first smallpox vaccination is administered, in England (May 14), George Washington issues his Farewell Address, setting a precedent by declining to run for a third term (Sep 17), the Spanish government, not being able to supply its overseas colonies with all needed goods, lifts the restrictions against other countries trading there – and all these fine people were born:

1796-xxxx Risto Antinpoika Vaittinen** father of Antti Ristonpoika Vaittinen - Karppila, Messo, Viipuri msrk, Sweden-Finland (1858/c.62) 1796-0105 Jonas Ferdinand Bergenheim* surveyor/soldier - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1847/51) 1796-0107 Princess Charlotte of Wales* the only child of George, Prince of Wales (later King George IV) - Carlton House, London, England (1817/21) 1796-0110 Leonard Dupont* French naturalist/collector and trader of natural history specimens - Bayeux, Normandy (1828/32) 1796-0120 1796-0125 William MacGillivray* naturalist/ornithologist - Old Aberdeen, Scotland (1851/56) 1796-0202 William Richardson* astronomer - Pocklington, Yorkshire, England (1872/76) 1796-0210 Henry De la Beche* geologist/ palaeontologist/slave plantation owner in Jamaica - England (1855/59) 1796-0217 Philipp Franz von Siebold* physician/botanist/explorer - Würzburg, Bishopric of Würzburg (1866/70) 1796-0222 Alexis Bachelot* Roman Catholic priest/led the first permanent Catholic mission to the Kingdom of Hawaii - Saint-Cyr-la-Rosière, France (1837/41) 1796-0311 Johann Ludwig Casper* forensic scientist/criminologist/author - Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (1864/67) 1796-0316 Cincinnato Baruzzi* Italian sculptor - Imola, Emilia Romagna (1878/81) 1796-0318 Jakob Steiner* Swiss mathematician - Utzenstorf,  Canton of Bern (1863/67) 1796-0402 William Pickering* bookseller/ publisher - England (1854/58) 1796-0406 Alexander Nisbet* naval surgeon/notable for his role in early convict transports to Australia  - Oldhamstocks, East Lothian, Scotland (1874/78) 1796-0410 James Bowie* pioneer/ slave smuggler/soldier (the Texas Revolution) - Logan County, KY USA (1836/39) 1796-0412 George N. Briggs* lawyer/politician - Adams, MA USA (1861/65) 1796-0424 Karl Immermann* German dramatist/novelist/poet - Magdeburg (1840/44) 1796-0501 Junius Brutus Booth* actor/father of John Wilkes Booth – St. Pancras, London, England (1852/56) 1796-0511 Franz Anton von Gerstner* German-Bohemian engineer/railway pioneer - Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (1840/43) 1796-0514 Samuel Jaudon* banker/ businessman - Philadelphia, PA USA (1874/78) 1796-0520 Abel Ingpen* entomologist - Chelsea, London, England (1854/58) 1796-0528 William Miller* engraver/ watercolorist - Edinburgh, Scotland (1882/85) 1796-0606 Julius Timoleon Ducatel* chemist/ geologist - Baltimore, MD USA (1849/52) 1796-0611 François-Louis Cailler* chocolatier/ founder of Cailler (the first modern brand of Swiss chocolate)  - Vevey, Switzerland (1852/55) 1796-0612 George Bush* biblical scholar/ abolitionist/member of the Bush family - Norwich, VT USA (1859/63) 1796-0701 1796-0706 Nicholas I of Russia* – Gatchina  Palace, Russian Empire (1855/58) 1796-0710 Elias Robert Alcenius* priest/genealogist/“the father of Finnish genealogy” - Isojoki, Sweden-Finland (1875/78) 1796-0710 Carl Henrik Boheman* entomologist/great-grandfather of actor Erland Josephson - Jönköping, Sweden (1868/72) 1796-0716 Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot* landscape and portrait painter /printmaker - Paris, French First Republic (1875/78) 1796-0723 Franz Berwald* orthopedic surgeon/composer/ Berward Hall in Stockholm named after him – Stockholm, Sweden (1868/71) 1796-0726 George Catlin* portrait painter of Native Americans in the Old West/ author/ traveler – Wilkes-Barre, PA USA (1872/76) 1796-0731 Jean-Gaspard Deburau* celebrated Bohemian French mime – Kolin, Bohemia (1846/49) 1796-0805 Michael Banim* novelist/short story writer - Kilkenny, Ireland (1874/78) 1796-0813 Carl August Buchholz* German organ builder - Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (1884/87) 1796-0828 José Agustín Álvarez Rixo* chronicler/mayor – Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain (1883/87) 1796-0903 Henriette Widerberg* opera singer/memoirist - Stockholm, Kingdom of Sweden (1872/75) 1796-0910 1796-0925 Antoine-Louis Barye* sculptor/animalier - Paris, France (1875/79) 1796-0928 David Walker* African-American abolitionist/writer - Wilmington, NC USA (1830/33) 1796-1019 Carl Wagner* German painter/etcher - Roßdorf, Thuringia (1867/70) 1796-1023 William Casson* botanist/ seed merchant/local historian - Thorne, England (1886/89) 1796-1030 Anna Heikintytär Raja** mother of Susanna Katarina Sallmen - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (unknown) 1796-1030 Wilhelm August Rieder* painter/draughtsman - Oberdöbling, Austria, Holy Roman Empire (1880/83) 1796-1031 1796-1103 Friedrich Lennig* German poet - Mainz (1838/41) 1796-1107 Alphonso Boone* pioneer in what became the state of Oregon/grandson of Daniel Boone - Mason County, KY USA (1850/53) 1796-1125 Andreas von Ettingshausen* Austrian mathematician/ physicist - Heidelberg, Electorate of the Palatinate (1878/81) 1796-1205 Thomas Flower Ellis* law reporter - Walthamstow, England (1861/64) 1796-1210 John Burnet Biddulph* Cape Colony explorer/trader - Wigginton, Staffordshire, England (1837/40) 1796-1219 Manuel Bretón de los Herreros* playwright - Quel, Spain (1873/76) 1796-1229 Alexander Blomqvist* librarian/professor of intellectual history – Helsinki, Sweden-Finland (1848/51) 1796-0 1796-0 1796-0 Updated 2025-0413 Helsinki Search for another year here