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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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915
Victorian era	1840	1901
Dreyfus Affair	November 1894	1906

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Wycombe Abbey
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

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
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	Governor of the Bank of Italy1948-1960
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 Høegh	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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