1896

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Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1860s  1870s  1880s  - 1890s -  1900s  1910s  1920s
Years:	1893 1894 1895 - 1896 - 1897 1898 1899

1896 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Sports - Rail Transport

Countries:         Australia - Canada -

Ireland - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. - UK

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1896 1.1 January - March 1.2 April - June 1.3 July - September 1.4 October - December 1.5 Undated 2 Births 2.1 January - June 2.2 July - December 2.3 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 3.1 January - June 3.2 July - December 3.3 Unknown dates

Events of 1896

January - March

• January 4 - Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
• January 5 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
• January 12 - H.L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph.
• January 18 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.

• February 1 - The opera La bohème premieres (Turin).
• February 1 - Walter Arnold, of Kent, England, is fined for speeding in excess of the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph.
• February 11 - Oscar Wilde's play Salomé premieres in Paris.

• March 1 - With the Battle of Adowa, Ethiopia defends its independence from Italy.
• March 23 - The New York State Legislature passes the Raines Law, restricting Sunday alcoholic beverage sales to hotels

April - June

• April 3 - First edition of Italian sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport is published.
• April 6 - Opening ceremonies of the 1896 Summer Olympics, the first modern Olympic Games.

• May 8 - Cricket: Against Warwickshire, Yorkshire sets a still-standing County Championship record when they accumulate an innings total of 887.
• May 18 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson, introducing the "separate but equal" doctrine and upholding segregation.
• May 26 - Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
• May 27 - The costliest and third deadliest tornado in U.S. history levels a mile wide swath of downtown St. Louis, Missouri, incurring $2.9 billion (1997 USD) in damages, killing more than 255 and injuring over 1,000 people.

• June 12 - J.T. Hearne sets a record for the earliest date of taking 100 wickets. It is equalled by Charlie Parker in 1931.
• June 15 - ? Earthquake and tsunami in Sanriku, Japan, kills 27.000.

July - September

• July 9 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of gold speech.
• July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Canada's seventh prime minister.

• August 16 - Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in the Klondike.
• August 27 - The shortest war in recorded history, the Anglo-Zanzibar War, starts at 9 in the morning and lasts for 45 minutes of shelling.

• September 15 - Crash at Crush train wreck stunt.
• September 22 - Queen Victoria surpassed her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.

October - December

• October 5 - After a long siege, Brazilian government troops take Canudos in north Brazil, crushing Antonio Conselheiro and his followers.
• October 12 - In Richland county, Ohio, the trial of Celia Rose for the triple murder of her family begins.
• October 20 - In Richland county, Ohio, Celia Rose was acquitted on grounds of insanity.
• October 30 - Augusta, KY: Augusta High School corner stone laid marking the end of the Augusta Methodist College.

• November - William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan in the U.S. presidential election.
• November 6 - Hale Johnson runs as vice-presidential candidate for Prohibition Party.
• November 16 - Cherry Sisters perform in Olympia Music Hall in New York City. At first audience is stunned but then begins to answer with catcalls.
• November 30 - A large carcass, later postulated to be the remains of a gigantic octopus, is found washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida.

• December 25 - John Philip Sousa composes magnum opus, "The Stars and Stripes Forever" on Christmas Day.
• December 30 - Jose Rizal, Filipino scholar and poet, executed in the Philippines

Undated

• Nepalese archaeologists rediscover the great stone pillar of Ashoka at Lumbini, using Fa Xian's records.
• Pontifical University of Maynooth is established by decree of the Vatican
• France establishes an administrative post in Abengourou, Côte d'Ivoire.
• Formation of the New York Telephone Company
• The great Realignment of the Republican Party of the United States of America
• Clarkson University is founded in Potsdam, New York

Births

1896 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1896 MDCCCXCVI
Ab urbe condita	2649
Armenian calendar	1345 ԹՎ ՌՅԽԵ
Bahá'í calendar	52 – 53
Buddhist calendar	2440
Chinese calendar	4532/4592-11-17 (乙未年十一月十七日) — to — 4533/4593-11-27 (丙申年十一月廿七日)
Ethiopian calendar	1888 – 1889
Hebrew calendar	5656 – 5657
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1951 – 1952
- Shaka Samvat	1818 – 1819
- Kali Yuga	4997 – 4998
Holocene calendar	11896
Iranian calendar	1274 – 1275
Islamic calendar	1313 – 1314
Japanese calendar	Meiji 29 (明治29年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2556 (皇紀2556年)
- Jōmon Era	11896
Julian calendar	1941
Korean calendar	4229
Thai solar calendar	2439
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January - June

• January 2 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (d. 1954)
• January 4 - Everett Dirksen, American politician (d. 1969)
• January 4 - André Masson, French artist (d. 1987)
• January 8 - Arthur Ford, American psychic spiritual medium, clairaudient (d. 1971)
• January 12 - Rex Ingram, Irish director and actor (d. 1950)
• January 14 - Martin Niemöller, German theologian and pacifist (d. 1984)
• January 14 - John Dos Passos, American author (d. 1970)
• January 20 - George Burns, American comedian (d. 1996)
• January 23 - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1985)
• February 18 - André Breton, French writer (d. 1966)
• February 28 - Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1965)
• February 29 - Morarji Desai, Indian politician (d. 1995)

• March 1 - Dimitris Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist, and composer (d. 1960)
• March 1 - Moriz Seeler, German writer, poet, film producer, and man of the theatre (d. 1942)
• March 20 - Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May, Canadian World War I pilot (d. 1952)
• March 29 - Wilhelm Ackermann, German mathematician (d. 1962)
• April 15 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• April 30 - Austrian inventor and automotive pioneer Hans List, founder of AVL List (d. 1996)
• April 30 - Gary Davis, American musician (d. 1972)

• May 30 - Howard Hawks, American director (d. 1977)
• June 7 - Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• June 7 - Douglas Campbell, American World War I flying ace (d. 1990)
• June 19 - Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (d. 1986)

July - December

• July 2 - Quirino Cristiani, Argentine animated film director (d. 1984)
• July 10 - Maurice Zbriger, Canadian violinist, composer and conductor (d. 1981)
• July 13 - Mordecai Ardon, one of Israel's greatest painters (d. 1992)
• July 16 - Trygve Lie, first United Nations Secretary General (d. 1968)
• August 9 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (d. 1980)
• August 15 - Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1957)
• August 15 - Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (d. 1958)
• August 18 - Jack Pickford, American actor (d. 1933)
• August 30 - Raymond Massey, Canadian-born actor (d. 1983)

• September 1 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder of Hare Krishna movement (d. 1977)
• September 24 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (d. 1940)
• October 7 - Paulino Alcántara, Philippine-Spanish soccer player (d. 1964)
• October 12 - Eugenio Montale, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
• October 28 - Howard Hanson, American composer (d. 1981)
• October 31 - Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (d. 1977)

• November 4 - Carlos P. Garcia, president of the Philippines (d. 1971)
• November 8 - Bucky Harris, baseball player (d. 1977)
• November 10 - Jimmy Dykes, baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
• November 13 - Nobusuke Kishi, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1987)
• November 14 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)
• November 16 - Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists (d. 1980)
• November 17 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)
• December 5 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1984)
• December 6 - Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (d. 1983)
• December 14 - Jimmy Doolittle, American World War II general (d. 1993)
• December 21 - Leroy Robertson, American composer (d. 1971)
• December 27 - Louis Bromfield, American writer (d. 1956)

Unknown dates

• (none)

See also Category: 1896 births.

Deaths

January - June

• January 4 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (b. 1821)
• January 8 - Paul Verlaine, French lyric poet (b. 1844)
• April 30 - Hamilton Disston, Floridan developer (b. 1844)
• May 20 - Clara Schumann, German composer (b. 1819)

July - December

• July 1 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (b. 1811)
• July 19 - Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859)
• August 10 - Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (b. 1848)
• August 17 - Bridget Driscoll, an early automobile fatality
• October 11 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)
• October 11 - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829)
• October 21 - James Henry Greathead, British engineer and inventor (b. 1884)
• October 23 - Columbus Delano, American statesman (b. 1809)
• December 10 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite and creator of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
• December 30 - José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines (b. 1861)

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Unknown dates

• (none)

See also Category: 1896 deaths.af:1896

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