WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO APRIL 1896
Find out what all happened February to April 1896

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

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

The Tootsie Roll is invented. (23. February 1896)

Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity. (1. March 1896)

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

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

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