Cover 1796
A.D. 1796, the first year of Jiaqing. In this year, Qianlong, who called
himself a "perfect old man", held a ceremony to return to power, and Jiaqing succeeded to the throne. In this year, the 26-year-old Napoleon began to make his mark in the military and political circles.
In this year, Edward Chinner experimentally planted vaccinia pulp on an 8-year-old child, and thus the cowpox vaccine against smallpox was produced.
It was also in this year that the White Lotus Rebellion, which swept most of the Qing Dynasty, officially broke out........