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Gregorian calendar | 1896 MDCCCXCVI |
Ab urbe condita | 2649 |
Armenian calendar | 1345 ԹՎ ՌՅԽԵ |
Assyrian calendar | 6646 |
Baháʼí calendar | 52–53 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1817–1818 |
Bengali calendar | 1303 |
Berber calendar | 2846 |
British Regnal year | 59 Vict. 1 – 60 Vict. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 2440 |
Burmese calendar | 1258 |
Byzantine calendar | 7404–7405 |
Chinese calendar | 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4593 or 4386 — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4594 or 4387 |
Coptic calendar | 1612–1613 |
Discordian calendar | 3062 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1888–1889 |
Hebrew calendar | 5656–5657 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1952–1953 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1817–1818 |
- Kali Yuga | 4996–4997 |
Holocene calendar | 11896 |
Igbo calendar | 896–897 |
Iranian calendar | 1274–1275 |
Islamic calendar | 1313–1314 |
Japanese calendar | Meiji 29 (明治29年) |
Javanese calendar | 1825–1826 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
Korean calendar | 4229 |
Minguo calendar | 16 before ROC 民前16年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 428 |
Thai solar calendar | 2438–2439 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 2022 or 1641 or 869 — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 2023 or 1642 or 870 |
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Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar).
Events of 1896
January
- 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
- 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
- March 1 - With the Battle of Adowa, Ethiopia defends its independence from Italy.
April
- 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
- 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
- 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
- July 9 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of gold speech.
- July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Canada's seventh prime minister.
August
- 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
- 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
- October 3 - Dalton brothers try to rob two banks but only Emmet Dalton survives the shootout.
- 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
- 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
- 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
Gregorian calendar | 1896 MDCCCXCVI |
Ab urbe condita | 2649 |
Armenian calendar | 1345 ԹՎ ՌՅԽԵ |
Assyrian calendar | 6646 |
Baháʼí calendar | 52–53 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1817–1818 |
Bengali calendar | 1303 |
Berber calendar | 2846 |
British Regnal year | 59 Vict. 1 – 60 Vict. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 2440 |
Burmese calendar | 1258 |
Byzantine calendar | 7404–7405 |
Chinese calendar | 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4593 or 4386 — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4594 or 4387 |
Coptic calendar | 1612–1613 |
Discordian calendar | 3062 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1888–1889 |
Hebrew calendar | 5656–5657 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1952–1953 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1817–1818 |
- Kali Yuga | 4996–4997 |
Holocene calendar | 11896 |
Igbo calendar | 896–897 |
Iranian calendar | 1274–1275 |
Islamic calendar | 1313–1314 |
Japanese calendar | Meiji 29 (明治29年) |
Javanese calendar | 1825–1826 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
Korean calendar | 4229 |
Minguo calendar | 16 before ROC 民前16年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 428 |
Thai solar calendar | 2438–2439 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 2022 or 1641 or 869 — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 2023 or 1642 or 870 |
January-February
- 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-April
- 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-June
- 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-August
- 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-October
- September 1 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder of Hare Krishna movement (d. 1977)
- September 24 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (d. 1940)
- October 1 - Quaid-e-Millat (Leader of the Community) Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1951)
- 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-December
- 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)
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)
- 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, Famous 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 29 - David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican muralist (b. 1896)
- December 30 - José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines (b. 1861)
Marriages
- February 20 - W.W. Denslow & Ann Waters Holden
- April 6 - Benjamin Harrison & Mary Scott Lord Dimmick
- April 8 - Jeanne Calment & Fernand Calment
- June 5 - Valborg Borchsenius & Johannes Norden Guldbrandsen
- June 26 - Jennette Lee & Gerald Stanley Lee
- July 22 - Queen Maud & King Haakon VII
- September 1 - W.S. Weatherwax & Anna L. Wallis
- October 15 - Lewis J. Selznick & Florence Flossie Sachs
- October 24 - King Victor Emmanuel III & Helen Petrovic-Njegos
- October 26 - Charles Fort & Anna Filing
- November 4 - Roberto Vittiglio & Wilhelmine Westphal
- December 1 - Neel Doff & Fernand Brouez
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