Important Historical Events of the year 1896, Year 1896 in History

1. Birthday Age Calculator
2. Historical Events By Year
3. 19th Century Years
4. Important Historical Events of the year 1896

List of 1896 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1896

What happened in the year 1896?

Date	Event
January 4, 1896	Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
January 18, 1896	An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
January 28, 1896	Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).
February 1, 1896	La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
February 21, 1896	An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
March 1, 1896	Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
March 1, 1896	Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
March 20, 1896	With the approval of Emperor Guangxu, the Qing dynasty post office is opened, marking the beginning of a postal service in China.
March 22, 1896	Charilaos Vasilakos wins the first modern Olympic marathon race with a time of three hours and 18 minutes.
March 26, 1896	An explosion at the Brunner Mine near Greymouth, New Zealand kills 65 coal miners in the country's worst industrial accident.
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 10, 1896	1896 Summer Olympics: The Olympic marathon is run ending with the victory of Greek athlete Spyridon Louis.
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 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.
May 26, 1896	Nicholas II is crowned as the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
May 26, 1896	Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
May 27, 1896	The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10 million in damage.
June 2, 1896	Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
June 4, 1896	Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
June 15, 1896	One of the deadliest tsunamis 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, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
July 9, 1896	William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
July 28, 1896	The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
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 17, 1896	Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
August 27, 1896	Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
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	Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
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 bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
November 17, 1896	The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino.
November 27, 1896	Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.
December 10, 1896	Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.
December 14, 1896	The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
December 17, 1896	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
December 30, 1896	Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
December 30, 1896	Canadian ice hockey player Ernie McLea scores the first hat-trick in Stanley Cup play, and the Cup-winning goal as the Montreal Victorias defeat the Winnipeg Victorias 6–5.