page_title: 1796
section_title: January–March
hierarchical_section_title: 1796 / Deaths / January–March
caption_attribution_description: English: Samuel Huntington, was a jurist, statesman, and a delegate to the from Connecticut to the Continental Congress. He also served as President of the Continental Congress from 1779 to 1781, chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1784 to 1785, and the 18th Governor of Connecticut from 1786 until his death.
context_page_description: 1796 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 and Anno Domini 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.
context_section_description: January 1
  Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde French musician and chemist (b. 1735)
  Giambattista Vasco, Italian economist (b. 1733)
  January 5 – Samuel Huntington, Connecticut jurist (b. 1731)
  January 5 – Anna Barbara Reinhart, Swiss mathematician (b. 1730)
  January 13 – John Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726)
  February 7 – Sir Francis Geary, 1st Baronet, officer of the British Royal Navy (b. 1709)
  February 14 – Samuel Pegge, English antiquary (b. 1704)
  February 15 – John Caesar Australian bushranger of African descent (b. 1763)
  February 17 – James Macpherson, Scottish writer (b. 1736)
  February 25 – Jean-Nicolas Stofflet, French royalist general (executed) (b. 1751)
  February 28 – Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, German violinist (b. 1739)
  March 1 – Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, Swedish architect and civil servant (b. 1716)
  March 3 – Pierre-René Rogue, French Catholic priest, member of the Congregation of the Mission (b. 1758)
  March 6 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer, man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment (b. 1713)
  March 10
  William Chambers, Scottish-Swedish architect (b. 1723)
  John Forbes, British Royal Navy officer (b. 1714)
  March 12 – Franz Töpsl, Augustinian Canon Regular (b. 1711)
  March 16 – Joseph Gerrald, Scottish political reformer (b. 1763)
  March 19 – Hugh Palliser, British naval officer, administrator (b. 1722)
  March 26 – François de Charette, French Royalist soldier, politician (b. 1763)
  March 30 – Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1765)
caption: Samuel Huntington
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