1896

Years: - 1896 - 1898 1899
Decades: 1870 1880 - Years 1890 - 1900 1910
Centuries: XVIII^E century - XIX^E century - XX^E century
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This page relates to the year 1896 .

Events

In March, Dreyfus Business : Interception of the telegram ("small blue") addressed by Schwartzkoppen to Hesterhazy.
In July, Dreyfus Business: the lieutenant-colonel George Picquart note the similarity of the writing of the form and that of Hesterazy, it alerts its superiors in vain.
6 November : Bernard Lazare publishes in Brussels "a miscarriage of justice, the truth on the Dreyfus business".
In December, Dreyfus Business: a new investigation leads to nona place in favour of Hesterazy.

1^er March : Victoire of Négus Ménélik II against the Italian troops with Adoua in , guaranteeing the independence of its country.
Beginning of the reconquest of Madagascar by Gallieni (end in 1905).

Beginning of the Spanish policy of "concentration" in the fight against the cuban freedom fighters.
Great famine with , 50 000 died in Havana.

4 January : Utah becomes the forty-fifth state of the American Union.
: In its stop Plessy v. Ferguson, supreme court The United States in the States the right recognizes to impose the racial segregation, provided that the conditions offered to the two races are equal.
: Wilfrid Bay-tree
In November, election of William McKinley (R) like President of the United States.
: Massacre of 300 Indians with Wounded Knee Creek by the soldiers of 7th of cavalry the, charged ones to escort the Indian chief Big Foot with a paw-waw; 13 Étatsuniens die, victims of friendly shootings.
The construction of Canadian Northern Railway and finished.
Creation of Dow-Jones

Railroads: 1896 in the railroads
Cinema: 1896 with the cinema
Sports: 1896 in sport
Arts & cultures:
- The Italian type-setter Giacomo Puccini writing its opera " The Bohemian one ».
- February 15 1896 : The founder of the movement Zionist Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), publishes " The Jewish State, seeks of a modern answer to the Jewish question », (Der Judenstaat).
Sciences & technology:
- The English scientist Havelock Ellis begin its work on the psychology of sexuality.
- The French scientist Antoine Henri Becquerel discover the radioactivity of uranium.
- French scientists Pierre and Marie Curia discover it radium.
- - Otto Lilienthal commits suicide in sailplane. It accomplished some 2 000 flights out of the 18 machines which it built between 1891 and 1896. These flying machines held more of the hang glider than of the plane.
- - Chanute Octave built sailplanes. The longest flight is 123 meters for 14 seconds of flight.
Economy:
- : Creation of Dow-Jones.