WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1896
Find out what all happened March to December 1896

Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance. (10. December 1896)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity. (1. March 1896)

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

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

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

Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. (26. May 1896)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire. (17. December 1896)

The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people. (15. June 1896)