WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1896
Find out what all happened January to November 1896

The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional. (18. May 1896)

Bridget Driscoll is run over by a Benz car in the grounds of The Crystal Palace, London, the world's first motoring fatality. (17. August 1896)

Battle of Adowa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War. (1. March 1896)

Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention, the radio. (2. June 1896)

A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time. (1. November 1896)

William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (9. July 1896)

Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa. (9. March 1896)

Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined 1 shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h). (28. January 1896)

Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar. (27. August 1896)

Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia. (26. May 1896)

Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece. (15. April 1896)

Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity. (1. March 1896)

Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people. (18. May 1896)

An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H.L. Smith. (18. January 1896)

An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners. (28. June 1896)

The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd below resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others. (20. May 1896)

Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run. (4. June 1896)

The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated. (28. July 1896)

The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino. (17. November 1896)

Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. (4. January 1896)