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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. | |
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Events
- January 6 – Cecil Rhodes is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope, for his involvement in the Jameson Raid.
- March 1 – Battle of Adwa: Ethiopia defends its independence from Italy, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
- March 3 – Publication begins for Der Eigene, the world's first magazine with an orientation to male homosexuality, by Adolf Brand in Berlin.
- 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.
- April 6 – The opening ceremonies of the 1896 Summer Olympics, the first modern Olympic Games, are held in Athens, Greece.
- April 9 – The National Farm School (later Delaware Valley College) is chartered in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
- May 8 – Cricket: Against Warwickshire, Yorkshire sets a still-standing County Championship record, when they accumulate an innings total of 887.
- May 13 – The Franchise Bill is passed by the Colony of Natal's Legislative Assembly, disfranchising natives of other countries.
- 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.
- 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.
- July 26 – The International Socialist Workers and Trade Union Congress opens in London.
- August 14 – The Uganda Railway Act, 1896, is approved in the United Kingdom, for construction of a railway in Africa, from Mombasa to Lake Victoria.[1]
- August 16 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in the Klondike, Yukon.
- August 23 – The Cry of Pugad Lawin initiates the Philippine Revolution.
- August 27 – The shortest war in recorded history, the Anglo-Zanzibar War, starts at 9:00 in the morning, and lasts for 45 minutes of shelling.
- Britain establishes a Protectorate over the Ashanti concluding the Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War.
- September 15 – The Crash at Crush train wreck stunt is held in Texas.
- September 22 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest-reigning monarch in British history.
- September 28 – 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.
- September 30 – Italy and France sign a treaty, whereby Italy virtually recognizes Tunisia as a French dependency.[2]
- November 3 – 1896 U.S. presidential election: Republican William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan. The event is viewed by some as a political realignment for the United States Republican Party.
- December 30 – José Rizal, Filipino scholar and poet, is executed by Spanish authorities in the Philippines.
Events
Event | Start | End |
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Pax Brittanica | 1815 | 1915 |
Victorian era | 1840 | 1901 |
Dreyfus Affair | November 1894 | 1906 |
New Groups
Group | Image | Type | Description |
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Banco Ambrosiano | ![]() | Financier | A bank connected to P2, no doubt used for various illicit purposes. |
University of the Witwatersrand | ![]() | University | Has its roots in the important South Africa mining industry |
Roche | ![]() | Largest pharmaceutical company in the world | |
University of North London | ![]() | London university merged in 2002 into the London Metropolitan University. | |
International Transport Workers' Federation | ![]() | ||
Wycombe Abbey | ![]() |
Births
Title | Born | Place of birth | Died | Summary | Description |
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Edward Martin | 1896 | Lawyer | Unidentified 1960 Bilderberg participant | ||
Fletcher Warren | 1896 | US Texas | 1992 | Diplomat | US diplomat. "Begin earnestly trying to keep our allies and friends, whether they be the purest Democracies or the most blatant dictators". |
Everett Dirksen | 4 January 1896 | United States Illinois Pekin | 7 September 1969 | Politician | Strong supporter of the war on Vietnam. |
Abram Pritzker | 6 January 1896 | 8 February 1986 | Lawyer Billionaire Businessperson Pritzker family | Founder of the Chicago Pritzker family fortune, with significant Mafia connections. | |
Wilton Persons | 19 January 1896 | 5 September 1977 | Soldier | Military officer who was the White House Chief of Staff to President Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
Clarence Streit | 21 January 1896 | Missouri | 6 July 1986 | Journalist Deep state operative | Played a prominent role in the Atlanticist and world federalist movements |
Donato Menichella | 23 January 1896 | Italy Rome | 23 July 1984 | Central banker | |
Anastasio Somoza García | 1 February 1896 | 29 September 1956 | Soldier Politician | With the help of the US Marine Corps started a family dictatorship that maintained absolute control over Nicaragua for 42 years. | |
F. Trubee Davison | 7 February 1896 | 14 November 1974 | Spook 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. Radford | 27 February 1896 | United States Chicago Illinois | 17 August 1973 | Pilot Mariner | Military hardliner with Asia first strategy |
Morarji Desai | 29 February 1896 | 10 April 1995 | Politician | Prime Minister of India who was on the CIA payroll | |
Edmund Hall Patch | 4 March 1896 | 1 June 1975 | Civil servant | UK civil servant who formerly worked on the Marshall plan and OEEC. IBRD/Executive Director, 1960 Bilderberg | |
Herbert Tingsten | 17 March 1896 | 26 December 1973 | Academic | Swedish publisher who attended 3 of the first 4 Bilderbergs | |
Kingman Douglass | 16 April 1896 | 8 October 1971 | Spook Banker Pilot | ||
Leif Höegh | 21 April 1896 | 23 May 1974 | Deep politician Businessperson | Bilderberg Steering committee, as was his son | |
Willi Krichbaum | 7 May 1896 | Germany Wiesbaden Hesse | 4 April 1957 | Spook | |
William Elliott | 12 May 1896 | Tennessee Murfreesboro | 9 January 1979 | Academic Deep state operative | Harvard professor at the center of the Deep State. Set up the Harvard International Seminar. |
William Elliot | 3 June 1896 | 27 June 1971 | RAF commander, Bilderberger | ||
Imre Nagy | 7 June 1896 | Hungary Kaposvár | 16 June 1958 | Politician | |
Nathaniel L. Goldstein | 9 June 1896 | New York | 24 March 1981 | Lawyer | New York State Attorney General from 1943 to 1954 |
Henry Crown | 13 June 1896 | 14 August 1990 | Businessperson | American mob-connected industrialist and strong supporter of the state of Israel. | |
John Vorys | 16 June 1896 | Ohio Lancaster | 25 August 1968 | Politician Lawyer | US lawyer and politician |
Wallis Simpson | 19 June 1896 | Pennsylvania Blue Ridge Summit | 24 April 1986 | Spook Socialite | Married King Edward VIII in 1936. Ties to Italian intelligence. |
Walter Paepcke | 29 June 1896 | 13 April 1960 | Businessperson | Founder of Aspen Institute | |
Colin Gubbins | 2 July 1896 | Japan | 11 February 1976 | Spook Soldier Deep politician | Bilderberg invitee and spook |
Pierre Dupuy | 9 July 1896 | Canada Montreal Quebec | 21 May 1969 | Diplomat | Canadian diplomat who conducted delicate missions in Vichy France. Like his son, Michel Dupuy, a Bilderberger diplomat |
Arnold Bergstraesser | 14 July 1896 | 24 February 1964 | Academic Deep state functionary | German political scientist who headed some deep state groups in the 1950s and 1960s | |
Trygve Lie | 16 July 1896 | Norway Oslo United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway | 30 December 1968 | Politician | Norwegian politician. UN "Godfather" of the state of Israel |
Bourke Hickenlooper | 21 July 1896 | United States Iowa Blockton | 4 September 1971 | Politician | Attended the 1963 Bilderberg as Chair of the Senate Republican Policy Committee. Introduced the Hickenlooper Amendment. |
Pieter Kerstens | 3 August 1896 | Ginneken | 8 October 1958 | Politician | Dutch politician and strong supporter of European cooperation. |
Thurmond Chatham | 16 August 1896 | North Carolina Durham | 3 January 1957 | Businessperson | |
James Warburg | 18 August 1896 | Germany Free City of Hamburg | 3 June 1969 | Author Banker | |
Jacques Rueff | 23 August 1896 | France Paris | 23 April 1978 | Economist | Mont Pelerin Society, 1958 and 1959 Bilderberg |
Guerin De Beaumont | 29 August 1896 | France Airel | 13 October 1955 | Politician | Attended 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 Pawley | 7 September 1896 | US Florence South Carolina | January 1977 | Diplomat Spook HSCA/Premature deaths | US diplomat who died from a gunshot to the head, possibly due to the HSCA hearings. |
Robert Kerr | 11 September 1896 | Oklahoma Ada | 1 January 1963 | Politician | |
Walter Reid Wolf | 28 October 1896 | New York Mount Vernon | 18 May 1963 | Spook Banker | Briefly and not very successfully CIA deputy director from 1951 to 1953. |
Nobusuke Kishi | 13 November 1896 | Japan Tabuse | 7 August 1987 | Politician War criminal Deep state operative | |
Oswald Mosley | 16 November 1896 | London United Kingdom Mayfair | 3 December 1980 | Politician | Rose to fame in the 1930s as the British Union of Fascists (BUF). |
Carlo Schmid | 3 December 1896 | 11 December 1979 | Politician Academic | Founder member of the Bilderberg Steering committee | |
Eric Johnston | 21 December 1896 | United States Washington DC D.C. | 22 August 1963 | Businessperson Asset |
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