1896

Centuries: Year in Review 19th Century (18th century - 19th century - 20th century)

Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s

Years: 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 - 1896 - 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901

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Events

• Beginning of Summer Olympic Games by Pierre Fredi, Baron de Coubertin
• First Summer Olympic Games in Athens,Greece
• February 11: Oscar Wilde's play "Salomé" premieres in Paris.
• March 1: With the Battle of Adowa, Ethiopia defended its independence from Italy.
• November - William McKinley defeats William J. Bryan in the U.S. presidential election

Births

• January 2: Dziga Vertov, filmmaker
• February 11: Else Lasker-Schuler, writer
• December 6: Ira Gershwin, lyricist
• December 14: George VI Windsor, father of Elizabeth II

Deaths

• May 20: Clara Schumann, Austrian composer
• October 11: Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer
• Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and creator of the Nobel Prize