List of state leaders in 1796

Africa

• Akwa Akpa – Ekpenyong Offiong Okoho, King of Akwa Akpa
• Ashanti Confederacy – Osei Kwame Panyin, Asantehene
• Cape Colony – James Henry Craig, Governor
• Kingdom of Dahomey – Agonglo
• Ethiopian Empire –
• *Tekle Giyorgis I
• *Salomon III
• Kingdom of Kaffa -
• Kingdom of Loango -
• *Tati, the Nganga Mvumbi
• Wadai Empire – Muhammad Salih Derret ibn Jawda, Sultan of Wadai
• Zulu – Senzangakona, King of the Zulu

  Americas

• United States – George Washington, President of the United States

  Asia

• Aceh Sultanate –
• Ahom –
• Alirajpur State – Pratap Singh I
• Kingdom of Burma – Bodawpaya
• Kingdom of Cambodia –

1. Ang Eng
2. Talaha Pen, regent

• China –
• #Qianlong Emperor
• #Jiaqing Emperor
• Durrani Empire – Zaman Shah
• Jaipur – Pratap Singh
• Empire of Japan
• *Monarch – Kōkaku
• *Tokugawa shogunate – Tokugawa Ienari
• *Ryukyu Kingdom – Shō On
• Joseon – Jeongjo
• Manipur – Ching-Thang Khomba
• Mughal Empire –
• Siam – Rama I
• Đại Việt – Nguyễn Quang Toản, Emperor

  Europe

• Principality of Abkhazia – Kelesh Begi
• Andorra – No reigning prince
• Batavian Republic –
• *# Estates General of the Batavian Republic
• *# National Assembly of the Batavian Republic
• Kingdom of Denmark–Norway
• * Monarch – Christian VII
• * Minister of State – Andreas Peter Bernstorff
• France – Directory
• Kingdom of Great Britain –
• *Monarch – George III
• *Prime Minister – William Pitt the Younger
• Holy Roman Empire – Franz II, Holy Roman Emperor
• Kingdom of Ireland – George III
• Ottoman Empire
• * Sultan of the Ottoman Empire – Selim III
• * Grand Vizier – Safranbolulu Izzet Mehmet Pasha
• Papal States – Pope Pius VI
• Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves –
• *Monarch – Maria I
• *Regent – John, Prince of Brazil
• Kingdom of Prussia – Frederick William II
• Russian Empire –
• #Catherine II, Tsaritsa of Russia
• #Paul I, Tsar of Russia
• Kingdom of Spain – Charles IV
• Kingdom of Sweden –
• *Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf in minority
• *Regent – Duke Charles, Regent during the minority of the monarch
• *Prime Minister – Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm, Member of the Privy Council
• Grand Duchy of Tuscany – Ferdinand III

  Middle East and North Africa

• Abu Dhabi – Shakhbut bin Dhiyab, Shaikh of Abu Dhabi
• Sultanate of Morocco – Slimane
• Tripoltania – Yusuf Karamanli, Pasha of Tripoltania

  Oceania

• Huahine – Tenania Tamatoa, King of Huahine
• Kingdom of Tahiti – Pōmare I