1896

	XVIII century - XIX century - XX century
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Events

• 1 March - Adua/Ethiopia -Ethiopia succeeding and definitively own independence defends with during war Italian-Ethiopian (1895-1896), defeating the Italian troops.
• - Greece: Spiridon Louis it wins maratona of I Olimpiade
• - Atene: to I Olimpiade Alfréd Hajós it wins in swim i 100 m and i 1500 m.
• - Greece: during of the diggings between the rests of a house, it comes discovered the inferior part of the statue of bronze known likeauriga of Delfo. The statue will come capacity to the light completely 9 May of the same year.
• - the Italian doctor Scipione River-Rocci it introduces to the scientific press sfigmomanometro of its ideazione.
• Turin: Giacomo Puccini it introduces The Bohème.
• Gaetano Moscow it writes Elements of political science.
• Henri Becquerel it discovers radioactivity.
• Klondike: it begins race to the gold.

Been born

• 8 January - Paul Verlaine,
• 1 February - Anastasio Somoza García president of Nicaragua († 1956)
• - William Wellman, American director
• - , photographer Italian.
• - Sandro Pertini, former President of the Republic
• - , Italian poet
• - Antonio Colucci, Italian mathematician
• - Antonino Votto, pianista and Italian director of orchestra ( 1985)
• - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa († 1957)

Died

• 8 January - Paul Verlaine, French poet (n. )
• - Friedrich August Kekulé, chemical German
• - , glottologo and Norwegian poet
• - , inventor of and ideatore of