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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eduard, post: 519943, member: 8959&quot;]Here are a few of the events that ocurred in the year 1796.</p><p>Our coins provide us a bridge to those events of long ago, and help us to appreciate both the coins and their history a little more:</p><p><br /></p><p>In the year 1796:</p><p><br /></p><p>- August 1796: Philadelphia became the first city in America to install gas lighting. Also, the first medical textbook on pediatrics was published in Philadelphia in that year.</p><p><br /></p><p>- December 18th 1796: the first Sunday newspaper - The Monitor - was published in Baltimore</p><p><br /></p><p>- October 29th 1796: the first ship to set sail to california from an Atlantic port arrived in Monterey.</p><p><br /></p><p>- March 9th 1796: Napoleon Buonaparte married his sweetheart Josephine de Beauharnais.</p><p><br /></p><p>- March 10th 1796: Napoleon defeated the Austrians at Lodi, and effectively took control of a major part of northern Italy.</p><p><br /></p><p>- September 9th 1796: The Philadelphia paper &#039;The American Daily Advertiser&#039; published Washington&#039;s farewell address to the nation.</p><p><br /></p><p>- June 1st 1796: Tennesee was admitted to the Union as the 16th state.</p><p><br /></p><p>- December 1796: the first canal in the United States commenced operations at South Hadley, Massachusetts, and the first Public health Hospital was founded, also in Massachusetts.</p><p><br /></p><p>- December 1796: the first tramway in the United States built by Boston Brick Works was in operation.</p><p><br /></p><p>- 1796: in this year, Nicolas Carnot who discovered and laid the foundation for the first and second law of thermodynamics, was born in France.</p><p><br /></p><p>- July 11th 1796: The british withdrew from Fort Detroit. Captain Moses Porter took possession of the fort in the name of the United States.</p><p><br /></p><p>- 1796: In that year, in the Northwest Territory, General Moses Cleaveland founded the city that bears his name. His men mispelled his name as &#039;Cleveland&#039;, Ohio.</p><p><br /></p><p>- November 1796: Andrew jackson was elected to be Tennessee&#039;s first delegate to the House of Representatives.</p><p><br /></p><p>- September 17th. 1796: Washington delivered his Farewell Address to the nation, not as a speech, but as a written statement.</p><p><br /></p><p>- In the year 1796, this Silver Dollar was minted at the U.S mint at Philadelphia, to serve in the channels of commerce of the young nation:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hope you enjoy! </p><p><br /></p><p>Eduard[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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