1896 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1896?
- January 4, 1896 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
- 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.
- February 23, 1896 – The Tootsie Roll is invented.
- March 9, 1896 – Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
- March 24, 1896 – A. A. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
- April 6, 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
- 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 – Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.
- May 27, 1896 – The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 USD).
- 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 30, 1896 – Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
- September 21, 1896 – British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
- September 22, 1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
- 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.
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