WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1896
Find out what all happened January to December 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)

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

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

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

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

Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas. (30. August 1896)

Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity. (1. March 1896)

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

Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila, Philippines. (30. December 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)

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

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

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

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

The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company. (14. December 1896)

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

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