1896 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1896?
- January 16, 1896 – Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
- February 23, 1896 – The Tootsie Roll is invented.
- March 1, 1896 – Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
- 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 – Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
- June 2, 1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention: the radio.
- 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.
- August 16, 1896 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
- 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 30, 1896 – Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila, Philippines.
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