1796 in Germany


Events from the year 1796 in Germany.

Incumbents

Holy Roman Empire

29 March: Carl Friedrich Gauß determines a construction method for the heptadecagon.
7 August: Württemberg cedes its property on the left bank of the Rhine, Mömpelgard, to France in the Peace of Paris in exchange for the promise of later compensation.
25 August: In a separate peace between Sigismund von Reitzenstein on behalf of the Margraviate of Baden and France, Baden has to cede its possessions on the left bank of the Rhine to France and make high reparation payments. In addition, the escaped Margrave Karl Friedrich is supposed to renounce his status as imperial prince.
2 September: Under pressure from its citizens, after experiencing French occupation in the War of the First Coalition, the imperial city of Nuremberg concludes a treaty that will place the city under Prussian sovereignty. Confirmation by the Prussian government did not materialize later due to foreign policy considerations and the necessary assumption of the Nuremberg debt burden.
3 September: In the First Coalition War, Archduke Charles of Austria and his army defeat France's troops under the command of Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan in the Battle of Würzburg. The second defeat after the previous Battle of Amberg on 24 August caused Jourdan to resign his command.
Ludwig van Beethoven dedicates his three piano sonatas Piano Sonata No. 1, Piano Sonata No. 2 and Piano Sonata No. 3 to his teacher Joseph Haydn.
Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths publishes the work Gymnastik für die Jugend , in which, among other things, rules for the game of baseball can be found for the first time.

Births

January

1 January
7 January
8 January
21 January
23 January
29 January
31 January
21 February
28 February
29 February – Germanicus Mirault, surgeon

March

8 March
11 March – Johann Ludwig Casper, German forensic pathologist
13 March
22 March – Heinrich Karl Beyrich, German botanist
23 March
31 March
13 April
19 April
24 April
27 April
6 May
7 May
9 May
12 May
15 May
23 May
18 June
28 June
2 July
3 July – Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus, German philosopher
12 July
13 July
15 July
22 July
27 July
29 July
31 July
3 August – Carl Friedrich Naumann, German geologist
6 August
10 August
12 August – Maximilian II of Bavaria, King of Bavaria
13 August
15 August
16 August
22 August
26 August
8 September
10 September – Hermann Kopp, German chemist
13 September – Johann Georg Wagler, German naturalist
14 September – Theodor Kliefoth, German Lutheran theologian
15 September
19 September – Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg, Baltic German field marshal
22 September
29 September
1 October
5 October
7 October – Karl Krazeisen, German painter
9 October – Emil Otto Grundmann, German-American painter
13 October
14 October – Theodor Kotschy, Austrian-German botanist and explorer
17 October – Wilhelm von Kaulbach, German painter
18 October
20 October – Moritz von Schwind, German painter

October

4 October
10 October
11 October
16 October
19 October
  • Carl Wagner, German painter known for romantic landscape painting
24 October
26 October
28 October
31 October
3 November
13 November
14 November
19 November
25 November
30 November
20 December – Simon Meister, German painter
29 December

January–March