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| 1795 |
| | | With the Dutch entering the war on the side of the French, Britain seizes their valuable Cape colony in South Africa | |
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| 1795 |
| | | Poland's neighbours – Russia, Prussia and Austria – are all on hand for the final partition of the kingdom | |
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| 1795 |
| | | A treaty negotiated by US minister Thomas Pinckney provides a temporary resolution of disputes between Spain and the USA | |
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| 1796 |
| | | Napoleon marries Josephine de Beauharnais, widow of Alexandre de Beauharnais, guillotined in 1794 | |
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| 1796 |
| | | In Berkeley, Gloucestershire, Edward Jenner inoculates a boy with cowpox in the pioneering case of vaccination | |
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| 1796 |
| | | In the armistice of Cherasco the king of Sardinia cedes to France his territories of Savoy and Nice | |
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| 1796 |
| | | Napoleon Bonaparte takes command of the French army of Italy, with astonishingly successful results | |
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| 1796 |
| | | After two rapid victories in north Italy, Napoleon marches on Turin and the king of Sardinia asks for an armistice | |
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| 1796 |
| | | French astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace publishes his nebular hypothesis, arguing that the planets formed from a mass of incandescent gas | |
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| 1796 |
| | | US author Joel Barlow publishes his mock-heroic poem The Hasty Pudding, inspired by a dish eaten in 1793 in France | |
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