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* [[January 6]] – [[Cecil Rhodes]] is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the [[Cape Colony|Cape of Good Hope]], for his involvement in the [[Jameson Raid]].
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* [[March 1]] – [[Battle of Adwa]]: [[Ethiopia]] defends its independence from Italy, ending the [[First Italo-Ethiopian War]].
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* [[March 3]] – Publication begins for ''[[Der Eigene]]'', the world's first magazine with an orientation to male [[homosexuality]], by [[Adolf Brand]] in Berlin.
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* [[April]] – The first study of the sensitivity of global climate to atmospheric carbon dioxide is published. [[Svante Arrhenius]] presents his findings in his paper, "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground", the ''London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science'', as an extract of a paper that had been presented to the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]] on December 11, 1895.
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* [[April 6]] – The opening ceremonies of the [[1896 Summer Olympics]], the first modern [[Olympic Games]], are held in [[Athens]], Greece.
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* [[April 9]] – The National Farm School (later [[Delaware Valley College]]) is chartered in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
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* [[May 8]] – [[Cricket]]: Against [[Warwickshire County Cricket Club|Warwickshire]], [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]] sets a still-standing [[County Championship]] record, when they accumulate an innings total of 887.
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* [[May 13]] – The Franchise Bill is passed by the [[Colony of Natal]]'s Legislative Assembly, disfranchising natives of other countries.
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* [[May 26]] – Eleven years after its foundation, a group of 12 purely industrial stocks were chosen to form the [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]]. The index is composed entirely of industrial shares for the first time.
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* [[July 9]] – [[William Jennings Bryan]] delivers his [[Cross of Gold speech]] at the [[Democratic National Convention]], which nominates him for president of the United States.
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* [[July 26]] – The [[International Socialist Workers and Trade Union Congress, London 1896|International Socialist Workers and Trade Union Congress]] opens in London.
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* [[August 14]] &ndash; The [[Uganda Railway]] Act, 1896, is approved in the United Kingdom, for construction of a railway in Africa, from [[Mombasa]] to [[Lake Victoria]].<ref>''The Law Journal Reports for the Year 1896'' (Stevens and Sons, Ltd., 1896), Volume 65, p247</ref>
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* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[Skookum Jim Mason]], [[George Carmack]] and Dawson Charlie discover [[gold]] in the [[Klondike, Yukon]].
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* [[August 23]] &ndash; The [[Cry of Pugad Lawin]] initiates the [[Philippine Revolution]].
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* [[August 27]] &ndash; The shortest war in recorded history, the [[Anglo-Zanzibar War]], starts at 9:00 in the morning, and lasts for 45 minutes of shelling.
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** Britain establishes a Protectorate over the [[Ashanti people|Ashanti]] concluding the [[Anglo-Ashanti wars#Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War|Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War]].
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* [[September 15]] &ndash; The [[Crush, Texas|Crash at Crush]] train wreck stunt is held in Texas.
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* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Queen Victoria]] surpasses her grandfather [[George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]] as the longest-reigning monarch in British history.
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* [[September 28]] &ndash; [[Pathé]] or Pathé Frères a French film company and one of the oldest film companies is founded by the brothers [[Charles Pathé]], Théophile Pathé, Émile Pathé and Jacques Pathé.
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* [[September 30]] &ndash; Italy and France sign a treaty, whereby Italy virtually recognizes [[Tunisia]] as a French dependency.<ref>Iiams, Thomas M. (1962). ''Dreyfus, Diplomatists and the Dual Alliance: Gabriel Hanotaux at the Quai D'Orsay (1894 &ndash; 1898)'', Geneva/Paris: Librairie Droz/Librairie Minard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=dgObEERSxvQC&pg=PA115 p. 115]</ref>
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* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[1896 U.S. presidential election]]: Republican [[William McKinley]] defeats [[William Jennings Bryan]]. The event is viewed by some as a [[political realignment]] for the [[History of the United States Republican Party#The Progressive Era: 1896–1932|United States Republican Party]].
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* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[José Rizal]], Filipino scholar and poet, is [[executed]] by Spanish authorities in the Philippines.
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Latest revision as of 12:14, 14 March 2021

1886 < 1887 < 1888 < 1889 < 1890 < 1891 < 1892 <1893 < 1894 < 1895 < 1896 > 1897 > 1898 > 1899 > 1900 > 1901 > 1902 > 1903 > 1904 > 1905 > 1906
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The Jameson Raid a British (with plausible deniability) attempt to trigger an uprising in the Transvaal, fails. The area was conquered in the Boer War two years later.
year 1896

Events


 

Events

EventStartEnd
Pax Brittanica18151915
Victorian era18401901
Dreyfus AffairNovember 18941906

 

New Groups

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University of North LondonLogoOrg125.jpgLondon university merged in 2002 into the London Metropolitan University.
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Births

TitleBornPlace of birthDiedSummaryDescription
Edward Martin1896LawyerUnidentified 1960 Bilderberg participant
Fletcher Warren1896US
Texas		1992DiplomatUS diplomat. "Begin earnestly trying to keep our allies and friends, whether they be the purest Democracies or the most blatant dictators".
Everett Dirksen4 January 1896United States
Illinois
Pekin		7 September 1969PoliticianStrong supporter of the war on Vietnam.
Abram Pritzker6 January 18968 February 1986Lawyer
Billionaire
Businessperson
Pritzker family		Founder of the Chicago Pritzker family fortune, with significant Mafia connections.
Wilton Persons19 January 18965 September 1977SoldierMilitary officer who was the White House Chief of Staff to President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Clarence Streit21 January 1896Missouri6 July 1986Journalist
Deep state operative		Played a prominent role in the Atlanticist and world federalist movements
Donato Menichella23 January 1896Italy
Rome		23 July 1984Central bankerGovernor of the Bank of Italy1948-1960
Anastasio Somoza García1 February 189629 September 1956Soldier
Politician		With the help of the US Marine Corps started a family dictatorship that maintained absolute control over Nicaragua for 42 years.
F. Trubee Davison7 February 189614 November 1974Spook
Pilot		Son of influential banker Henry Davison. Worked with deep state operatives Judge Gary and Bill Donovan. After WW2 Director of Personnel for the CIA.
Arthur W. Radford27 February 1896United States
Chicago
Illinois		17 August 1973Pilot
Mariner		Military hardliner with Asia first strategy
Morarji Desai29 February 189610 April 1995PoliticianPrime Minister of India who was on the CIA payroll
Edmund Hall Patch4 March 18961 June 1975Civil servantUK civil servant who formerly worked on the Marshall plan and OEEC. IBRD/Executive Director, 1960 Bilderberg
Herbert Tingsten17 March 189626 December 1973AcademicSwedish publisher who attended 3 of the first 4 Bilderbergs
Kingman Douglass16 April 18968 October 1971Spook
Banker
Pilot
Leif Høegh21 April 189623 May 1974Deep politician
Businessperson		Bilderberg Steering committee, as was his son
Willi Krichbaum7 May 1896Germany
Wiesbaden
Hesse		4 April 1957Spook
William Elliott12 May 1896Tennessee
Murfreesboro		9 January 1979Academic
Deep state operative		Harvard professor at the center of the Deep State. Set up the Harvard International Seminar.
William Elliot3 June 189627 June 1971RAF commander, Bilderberger
Imre Nagy7 June 1896Hungary
Kaposvár		16 June 1958Politician
Nathaniel L. Goldstein9 June 1896New York24 March 1981LawyerNew York State Attorney General from 1943 to 1954
Henry Crown13 June 189614 August 1990BusinesspersonAmerican mob-connected industrialist and strong supporter of the state of Israel.
John Vorys16 June 1896Ohio
Lancaster		25 August 1968Politician
Lawyer		US lawyer and politician
Wallis Simpson19 June 1896Pennsylvania
Blue Ridge Summit		24 April 1986Spook
Socialite		Married King Edward VIII in 1936. Ties to Italian intelligence.
Walter Paepcke29 June 189613 April 1960BusinesspersonFounder of Aspen Institute
Colin Gubbins2 July 1896Japan11 February 1976Spook
Soldier
Deep politician		Bilderberg invitee and spook
Pierre Dupuy9 July 1896Canada
Montreal
Quebec		21 May 1969DiplomatCanadian diplomat who conducted delicate missions in Vichy France. Like his son, Michel Dupuy, a Bilderberger diplomat
Arnold Bergstraesser14 July 189624 February 1964Academic
Deep state functionary		German political scientist who headed some deep state groups in the 1950s and 1960s
Trygve Lie16 July 1896Norway
Oslo
United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway		30 December 1968PoliticianNorwegian politician. UN "Godfather" of the state of Israel
Bourke Hickenlooper21 July 1896United States
Iowa
Blockton		4 September 1971PoliticianAttended the 1963 Bilderberg as Chair of the Senate Republican Policy Committee. Introduced the Hickenlooper Amendment.
Pieter Kerstens3 August 1896Ginneken8 October 1958PoliticianDutch politician and strong supporter of European cooperation.
Thurmond Chatham16 August 1896North Carolina
Durham		3 January 1957Businessperson
James Warburg18 August 1896Germany
Free City of Hamburg		3 June 1969Author
Banker
Jacques Rueff23 August 1896France
Paris		23 April 1978EconomistMont Pelerin Society, 1958 and 1959 Bilderberg
Guerin De Beaumont29 August 1896France
Airel		13 October 1955PoliticianAttended the first Bilderberg as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in charge of the European Defence Community. Made French Minister of Justice soon after. Died in 1955.
William Pawley7 September 1896US
Florence
South Carolina		January 1977Diplomat
Spook
HSCA/Premature deaths		US diplomat who died from a gunshot to the head, possibly due to the HSCA hearings.
Robert Kerr11 September 1896Oklahoma
Ada		1 January 1963Politician
Walter Reid Wolf28 October 1896New York
Mount Vernon		18 May 1963Spook
Banker		Briefly and not very successfully CIA deputy director from 1951 to 1953.
Nobusuke Kishi13 November 1896Japan
Tabuse		7 August 1987Politician
War criminal
Deep state operative
Oswald Mosley16 November 1896London
United Kingdom
Mayfair		3 December 1980PoliticianRose to fame in the 1930s as the British Union of Fascists (BUF).
Carlo Schmid3 December 189611 December 1979Politician
Academic		Founder member of the Bilderberg Steering committee
Eric Johnston21 December 1896United States
Washington DC
D.C.		22 August 1963Businessperson
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References

  1. ↑ The Law Journal Reports for the Year 1896 (Stevens and Sons, Ltd., 1896), Volume 65, p247
  2. ↑ Iiams, Thomas M. (1962). Dreyfus, Diplomatists and the Dual Alliance: Gabriel Hanotaux at the Quai D'Orsay (1894 – 1898), Geneva/Paris: Librairie Droz/Librairie Minard, p. 115
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