WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1896
Find out what all happened January to September 1896

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

Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila (actual date and location is disputed). (23. August 1896)

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

Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire. (16. January 1896)

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

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

British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan. (21. September 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)

Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history. (22. September 1896)

Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity. (1. March 1896)

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

The Tootsie Roll is invented. (23. February 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)

In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. (6. April 1896)

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

Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush. (16. August 1896)

A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history. (24. March 1896)

An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen has discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays. (5. January 1896)