1896 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1896?
- January 5, 1896 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen has discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
- January 16, 1896 – Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
- January 18, 1896 – The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
- March 1, 1896 – Battle of Adowa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo–Ethiopian War.
- March 9, 1896 – Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
- April 15, 1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
- May 18, 1896 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the “separate but equal” doctrine is constitutional.
- May 20, 1896 – The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd below resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others.
- May 26, 1896 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
- June 15, 1896 – The deadliest tsunami in Japan’s history kills more than 22,000 people.
- June 28, 1896 – An explosion in the Newton Coal Company’s Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
- July 8, 1896 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetalism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
- July 28, 1896 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
- August 23, 1896 – Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila (actual date and location is disputed).
- August 27, 1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
- September 21, 1896 – British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
- November 1, 1896 – A picture showing the unclad (bare) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
- December 14, 1896 – The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
- December 30, 1896 – Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila, Philippines.
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