1896 (MDCCCXCVI ) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar , the 1896th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 896th year of the 2nd millennium , the 96th year of the 19th century , and the 7th year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1896, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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January– March
January 5 : Röntgen rays .
January 5 : Röntgen X-ray .
January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end as Jameson surrenders to the Boers .[1]
January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state .
January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports Wilhelm Röntgen 's discovery, last November, of a type of electromagnetic radiation , later known as X-rays .
January 6 – Cecil Rhodes is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope for his involvement in the Jameson Raid .
January 7 – American culinary expert Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook.
January 12 – H. L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph.
January 16 – Devonport High School for Boys is founded in Plymouth (England).
January 17 – Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War : British redcoats enter the Ashanti capital, Kumasi , and Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I is deposed.[2]
January 28 – Walter Arnold, of East Peckham , Kent , England, is fined 1 shilling for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h) , exceeding the contemporary urban speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h) , the first speeding fine.
February 1 – Puccini 's opera La bohème premieres in Turin , Italy.
February 11 – Oscar Wilde 's play Salomé (1891) has its stage premiere (while Wilde is in prison) in its original French in Paris.
February 19 – Braamfontein Explosion : A train carrying 56 tons of dynamite explodes at Braamfontein , Johannesburg , killing more than 78 people.[3]
March 1 – Battle of Adwa : Ethiopia defends its independence from Italy, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War .
March 3 – Publication begins for Der Eigene , the world's first magazine with an orientation to male homosexuality , by Adolf Brand in Berlin.
March 9 – Responding to national outrage at the defeat at Adwa, Italian Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns.
March 29 – The Royal College of St Patrick, Maynooth in Ireland is granted the status of pontifical university by charter of the Holy See .[4]
April– June
A picture of the restored Panathenaic Stadium , the site of the 1896 Summer Olympics
April 6 – The opening ceremonies of the 1896 Summer Olympics , the first modern Olympic Games , are held in Athens , Greece.
April 9 – The National Farm School (later Delaware Valley College ) is chartered in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
April 23 – Blackpool Pleasure Beach , a popular English theme park ("Britain's Biggest Tourist Attraction"), is founded by Alderman William George Bean.[6]
May 8 – Cricket : Against Warwickshire , Yorkshire sets a still-standing County Championship record in England, when they accumulate an innings total of 887.
May 13 – The Franchise Bill is passed by the Colony of Natal 's Legislative Assembly, disfranchising natives of other countries.
May 18 – Plessy v. Ferguson : The U.S. Supreme Court introduces the separate but equal doctrine, and upholds racial segregation .
May 26
May 27 – St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado : The costliest and third deadliest tornado in U.S. history levels a mile wide swath of downtown St. Louis, Missouri , incurring US$2.9 billion (1997 USD) in normalized damages, killing more than 255 and injuring over 1,000 people.
June 4 – The Ford Quadricycle , the first vehicle developed by Henry Ford , is completed, eventually leading Ford to build the empire that "put America on wheels".
June 7 – Mahdist War : Battle of Ferkeh – British and Egyptian troops are victorious.
June 12 – J. T. Hearne sets a record for the earliest date of taking 100 wickets in cricket, in England (it is equalled by Charlie Parker in 1931 ).
June 15 – The 8.5 Sanriku earthquake and tsunami kills 22,000 in northeastern Japan.[9]
June 18 – The New York Telephone Company is formed, succeeding the Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Company, to control telephone service within New York City.[10]
June 23 – Liberal leader Wilfrid Laurier defeats Charles Tupper during Canadian federal elections for the 8th Canadian Parliament , to become the first Francophone Prime Minister of Canada .
June 28 – Twin Shaft disaster : An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners .[11]
July– September
July 9 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech at the Democratic National Convention , which nominates him for president of the United States.
July 11 – Wilfrid Laurier becomes Canada's seventh prime minister , and the first French-speaker to hold that office.
July 21 – In Washington, D.C., in response to a "call to confer" issued by Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin to all women of color, the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs is organized.
July 26 – The International Socialist Workers and Trade Union Congress opens in London.
July 27 – A causeway is opened between the islands of Saaremaa and Muhu in Estonia .
July 30 – Atlantic City rail crash : Shortly after 6:30 pm, at a crossing just west of Atlantic City, New Jersey, two trains collide, crushing five loaded passenger coaches, killing 50 and seriously injuring approximately sixty.
August – The 1896 Eastern North America heat wave kills 1,500 people from Chicago, Illinois to Boston, Massachusetts.
August 1 – The Park Seung-jik shop, predecessor of South Korean conglomerate Doosan Group , is founded in Joseon (the kingdom of Korea).[12]
August 14 – The Uganda Railway Act, 1896, is approved in the United Kingdom, for construction of a railway in Africa from Mombasa to Lake Victoria .[13]
August 16 – Skookum Jim Mason , George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in the Klondike, Yukon .
August 17 – Bridget Driscoll is run over by a Benz car on the grounds of The Crystal Palace , London, the world's first motoring fatality.
August 23 – The Cry of Pugad Lawin initiates the Philippine Revolution .
August 27
September 2 – Clarkson University holds its first classes, with 17 students attending in Potsdam, New York .[14]
September 15 – The Crash at Crush train wreck stunt is held in Texas.
September 22 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest-reigning monarch in British history up to this time.
September 28 – Pathé Frères, a French film company and one of the oldest film companies, is founded by the brothers Charles Pathé , Théophile Pathé, Émile Pathé and Jacques Pathé.
September 30
October– December
October 1 – Gottlieb Daimler builds the first gasoline truck.
October 2 – The Victorian Football League is established as Australian rules football in Australia (a predecessor of the Australian Football League ).
October 30 – The Augusta High School cornerstone is laid in Augusta, Kentucky , marking the end of the Augusta Methodist College .
November 3 – 1896 United States presidential election : Republican William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan . The event is viewed by some as a political realignment for the United States Republican Party .
November 27 – Richard Strauss 's orchestral tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra is first performed, in Frankfurt , conducted by the composer.
November 30
December 1 – Archaeologist Alois Anton Führer , Nepalese General Khadga Samsher Rana and an expedition rediscover the great stone pillar of Ashoka at Lumbini , traditionally the spot of the birthplace of Gautama Buddha , after using Faxian 's records.[16]
December 10
December 14 – The Glasgow Subway , the third-oldest underground metro system in the world, opens.
December 25 – John Philip Sousa composes The Stars and Stripes Forever which will become the national march of the United States.
December 30 – José Rizal , Filipino scholar and poet, is executed by Spanish authorities in the Philippines.
January– February
George Burns
Morarji Desai
January 2 – Dziga Vertov , Russian filmmaker (d. 1954 )
January 4
January 8
January 12 – Uberto De Morpurgo , Italian tennis player (d. 1961 )[18]
January 14 – John Dos Passos , American author (d. 1970 )[19]
January 20 – George Burns , American actor, comedian (d. 1996 )
January 21 – J. Carrol Naish , American character actor (d. 1973 )
January 23 – Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1985 )[20]
January 26 – József Kiss , Austro-Hungarian fighter pilot (d. 1918 )
February 1 – Anastasio Somoza García , 21st President of Nicaragua (d. 1956 )[21] [22]
February 2 – Ramón Franco , Spanish aviation pioneer (d. 1938 )
February 4 – Friedrich Hund , German physicist (d. 1997 )
February 18 – Li Linsi , Chinese educator and diplomat (d. 1970 )
February 19 – André Breton , French writer (d. 1966 )[23]
February 25 – Heinrich Gontermann , German World War I fighter ace (d. 1917 )
February 28 – Philip Showalter Hench , American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1965 )
February 29
March– April
Ira C. Eaker
Nikolay Semyonov
March 1 – Dimitri Mitropoulos , Greek conductor, pianist and composer (d. 1960 )
March 13 – Field Eugene Kindley , American World War I fighter pilot (d. 1920 )
March 20 – Wop May , Canadian World War I pilot (d. 1952 )
March 22 – Joseph Schildkraut , Austrian-American actor (d. 1964 )
March 29 – Wilhelm Ackermann , German mathematician (d. 1962 )
April 13 – Ira C. Eaker , World War II United States Army Air Forces general (d. 1987 )
April 15
April 17 – Señor Wences , Spanish ventriloquist (d. 1999 )
April 21 – Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer , Dutch war hero, resistance fighter and humanitarian (d. 1978 )
April 26 – Ernst Udet , German World War I fighter ace, Nazi Luftwaffe official (d. 1941 )
April 27 – Rogers Hornsby , American baseball player (d. 1963 )
April 30 – Reverend Gary Davis , American musician (d. 1972 )
May– June
Mark W. Clark
Jorge Alessandri
May 1
May 2 – Helen of Greece and Denmark , Queen Mother of Romania (d. 1982 )
May 3 – Karl Allmenröder , German World War I fighter pilot (d. 1917 )
May 5 – Kaju Sugiura , Japanese admiral (d. 1945 )
May 19 – Jorge Alessandri , 27th President of Chile (d. 1986 )
May 23 – Andor Jaross , ethnic Hungarian politician (d. 1946 )
May 29 – Luther W. Youngdahl , American politician, Governor of Minnesota from 1947 to 1951, and a United States district judge from 1951 to 1978 (d. 1978 )
May 30 – Howard Hawks , American director (d. 1977 )
May 31 – Ernest Haller , American cinematographer (d. 1974 )
June 2 – Nubar Gulbenkian , Ottoman-born Armenian-British oil trader, socialite and intelligence operative (d. 1972 )
June 6
June 7
June 19 – Wallis Simpson , American-born Duchess of Windsor (d. 1986 )
June 23 – Francisco Malabo Beosá , Equatoguinean royalty (d. 2001 )
June 29 – Boris Podolsky , Russian-American physicist (d. 1966 )
July– August
Thomas Playford IV
Trygve Lie
Jean Piaget
Gerty Cori
July 2 – Quirino Cristiani , Argentine animated film director (d. 1984 )
July 4 – Mao Dun , Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and Minister of Culture (d. 1981 )[24]
July 5 – Thomas Playford IV , South Australian politician (d. 1981 )
July 16
July 17 – Dumitru Dămăceanu , Romanian general and politician (d. 1978 )
July 18 – Patrick O'Boyle , American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1987 )
July 19 – Stafford L. Warren , American physician and radiologist; inventor of the mammogram (d. 1981 )
August 7 – Ernesto Lecuona , Cuban pianist, composer (d. 1963 )[25]
August 9
August 10 – Walter Lang , American film director (d. 1972 )
August 13 – Rudolf Schmundt , German general (d. 1944 )
August 14 – Albert Ball , British World War I fighter ace, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1917 )
August 15 – Gerty Cori , Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1957 )
August 18 – Jack Pickford , Canadian-born American actor, film director, and producer (d. 1933 )
August 27 – Léon Theremin , Russian inventor (d. 1993 )
August 28 – Arthur Calwell , Australian politician (d. 1973 )
August 30 – Raymond Massey , Canadian-born American actor (d. 1983 )
September– October
Adele Astaire
F. Scott Fitzgerald
September 1 – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada , Indian religious leader, founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (d. 1977 )
September 4 – Antonin Artaud , French stage actor, director (d. 1948 )[26]
September 10 – Adele Astaire , American dancer (d. 1981 )
September 14 – José Mojica , Mexican Franciscan friar, tenor and film actor (d. 1974 )
September 22 – Uri Zvi Greenberg , Israeli poet and journalist (d. 1981 )[27]
September 24 – F. Scott Fitzgerald , American writer (d. 1940 )[28]
September 25 – Sandro Pertini , President of Italy (d. 1990 )
September 30 – Jolie Gabor , Hungarian-American entrepreneur, jeweler and memoirist (d. 1997 )
October 1 – Abraham Sofaer , Burmese-born British actor (d. 1988 )
October 7 – Paulino Alcántara , Filipino-Spanish soccer player (d. 1964 )
October 12 – Eugenio Montale , Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981 )[29]
October 14 – Bud Flanagan , British entertainer, comedian (d. 1968 )
October 22 – Earle Clements , American politician, governor of Kentucky (d. 1985 )
October 28 – Howard Hanson , American composer (d. 1981 )[30]
October 30 – Ruth Gordon , American actress, screenwriter, and playwright (d. 1985 )
October 31 – Ethel Waters , American singer, actress (d. 1977 )
November– December
Carlos P. Garcia
Jimmy Doolittle
November 4
November 8 – Marie Prevost , Canadian-born American actress (d. 1937 )
November 10
November 13 – Nobusuke Kishi , Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1987 )
November 14 – Mamie Eisenhower , First Lady of the United States (d. 1979 )
November 15 – Giovanni Ancillotto , Italian World War I flying ace (d. 1924 )
November 16
November 17 – Lev Vygotsky , Russian psychologist (d. 1934 )
November 23 – Klement Gottwald , Czechoslovak communist politician (d. 1953 )
November 25
November 26 – Manuel A. Odría , 79th President of Peru (d. 1974 )
November 28 – Lilia Skala , Austrian-American actress (d. 1994 )
December 1 – Georgi Zhukov , Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1974 )
December 2 – Alfons Tracki , German-Albanian priest (martyred 1946 )
December 5 – Carl Ferdinand Cori , Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1984 )
December 6
December 12 – Vasily Gordov , Soviet general (d. 1950 )
December 14 – Jimmy Doolittle , American aviation pioneer, World War II United States Army Air Forces general (d. 1993 )
December 15 – Miles Dempsey , British general (d. 1969 )
December 16 – Anna Anderson , pretender to the Russian throne (d. 1984 )
December 23 – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Italian writer (d. 1957 )[32]
December 27 –
December 28 – Roger Sessions , American composer (d. 1985 )
December 29 – David Alfaro Siqueiros , Mexican muralist (d. 1974 )[34]
January– June
Clara Schumann
January 4 – Joseph Hubert Reinkens , German Old Catholic bishop (b. 1821 )
January 5 – Charlie Bassett , American sheriff (b. 1847 )
January 8 – Paul Verlaine , French lyric poet (b. 1844 )[35]
January 15 – Mathew Brady , American photographer (b. 1822 )
January 18 – Charles Floquet , Prime Minister of France (b. 1828 )
January 20 – Prince Henry of Battenberg , Lombardy-born British royal, married to Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (b. 1858 )
January 26 – James Edwin Campbell , American educator, school administrator, newspaper editor, poet, and essayist (b. 1867)[36]
February 7 – William Hayden English , American politician (b. 1822 )
February 25 – Joseph P. Fyffe , American admiral (b. 1832 )
March 30 – Charilaos Trikoupis , 7-time prime minister of Greece (b. 1832 )
April 9 – Gustav Koerner , German-American statesman (b. 1809 )
April 27 – Sir Henry Parkes , Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1815 )
April 30 – Hamilton Disston , American industrialist and land developer (b. 1844 )
May 1 – Naser al-Din Shah Qajar , Shah of Persia, King of Herat (b. 1831 )
May 7 – H. H. Holmes , American serial killer (executed) (b. 1861 )
May 10 – Antti Ahlström , Finnish industrialist, founder of Ahlstrom (b. 1827 )
May 13 – Nora Perry , American newspaper correspondent (b. 1831 )
May 17 – Muhammad Al-Sabah , emir of Kuwait (b. 1831 )
May 18 – Daniel Pollen , 9th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1813 )
May 19 – Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria , father of Archduke Ferdinand (b. 1833 )
May 20 – Clara Schumann , German composer, pianist (b. 1819 )
May 24 – Luigi Federico Menabrea , Italian soldier, statesman (b. 1809 )
June 13 – Alpheus Felch , American politician, governor and senator from Michigan (b. 1804 )
June 19 – Louis Brière de l'Isle , French general (b. 1827 )
July– December
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Otto Lilienthal
Alfred Nobel
Jose Rizal
Margaret Eleanor Parker
July 1 – Harriet Beecher Stowe , American author (b. 1811 )[37]
July 4 – Marcelo H. del Pilar , Filipino writer, journalist (b. 1850 )
July 11 – Ernst Curtius , German historian (b. 1814 )[38]
July 13 – August Kekulé , German chemist (b. 1829 )
July 16 – Edmond de Goncourt , French writer, co-founder of the Académie Goncourt (b. 1822 )[39]
July 19 – Abraham H. Cannon , American Mormon apostle (b. 1859 )
August 10 – Otto Lilienthal , German aviation pioneer (b. 1848 )
August 12 – Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden , British army general (b. 1821 )
August 13 – Sir John Everett Millais , British Pre-Raphaelite painter (b. 1829 )
August 17 – Bridget Driscoll , early British automobile fatality (b. c. 1851 )
August 18 – Richard Avenarius , German-Swiss philosopher (b. 1843 )
August 25 – Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar (b. 1857 )
September 18 – Hippolyte Fizeau , French physicist (b. 1819 )
September 22 – Pavlos Kalligas , Greek jurist, politician (b. 1814 )
September 23 – Ivar Aasen , Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet (b. 1813 )[40]
September 24 – Louis Gerhard De Geer , 1st Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1818 )
October 3 – William Morris , English designer, poet and political activist (b. 1834 )[41]
October 6 – Sir James Abbott , British army officer and colonial administrator in India (b. 1807 )
October 7 – Louis-Jules Trochu , French general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of France (b. 1815 )
October 8 – George du Maurier , French-born British cartoonist and writer (b. 1834 )[42]
October 10 – Ferdinand von Mueller , German-born Australian botanist (b. 1825 )
October 11
October 12 – Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs , Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1817 )
October 19 – Emmy Rappe , Swedish nursing pioneer (b. 1835 )
October 21 – James Henry Greathead , British engineer and inventor (b. 1844 )
October 23 – Columbus Delano , American statesman (b. 1809 )
October 26 – Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour , French statesman (b. 1827 )
October 30 – Carol Benesch , Silesian and Romanian architect (b. 1822 )
November – Margaret Eleanor Parker , English social activist; first president of the British Women's Temperance Association (b. 1827 )
November 12 – Joseph James Cheeseman , Liberian politician, 12th President of Liberia (b. 1843 )
November 16 – Josip Šokčević , Croatian viceroy (b. 1811 )
November 22 – George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. , American inventor of the Ferris wheel (b. 1859 )
November 23 – Ichiyō Higuchi , Japanese poet and novelist (b. 1872 )[43]
November 26
December 10 – Alfred Nobel , Swedish inventor of dynamite, creator of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833 )[45]
December 29
December 30 – José Rizal , national hero of the Philippines (b. 1861 )
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