1796

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1760s  1770s  1780s  – 1790s –  1800s  1810s  1820s
Years:	1793 1794 1795 – 1796 – 1797 1798 1799

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