Major Events
- Mar 2 Napoléon Bonaparte is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French Army in Italy
- May 14 English country doctor Edward Jenner administers his revolutionary cowpox-based vaccine for smallpox, in Berkeley, Gloucestershire
- More 1796 Events
Famous Weddings in 1796
- Mar 9 Napoléon Bonaparte (26) marries his first wife Joséphine de Beauharnais (32), changing her name from Rose