Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.

* 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.

* 1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.

* 1896 – Hans List, Austrian inventor and entrepreneur ( d. 1996 )

* 1896 – Reverend Gary Davis, American singer and guitarist ( d. 1972 )

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

* 1896 – Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress ( d. 1984 )

* 1844 – James Henry Greathead, English engineer ( d. 1896 )

* 1896 – Erich Hückel, German physicist ( d. 1980 )

* 1896 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist ( d. 1980 )

In 1896 England under the captaincy of W G Grace won the series 2 – 1, and this marked the end of England's longest period of Ashes dominance.

* 1896 – Lorenzo Herrera, Venezuelan singer and composer ( d. 1960 )

* 1988 – Jim Jordan, American actor ( b. 1896 )

* 1896 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author ( d. 1953 )

* 1896 – Pat Clayton, English surveyor and explorer ( d. 1962 )

* 1896 – Tristan Tzara, Romanian poet and essayist ( d. 1963 )

* 1896 – Gerty Cori, Austrian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1957 )

* 1896 – Catherine Doherty, Russian-Canadian activist ( d. 1985 )

* 1896 – Paul Outerbridge, American photographer ( d. 1958 )

* 1896 – Léon Theremin, Russian inventor, invented the Theremin ( d. 1993 )

* 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.

* 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 ).

* 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.

* 1850 – Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino writer, journalist, and revolutionary ( d. 1896 )

* 1896 – Raymond Massey, Canadian actor ( d. 1983 )

* 1836 – Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer ( d. 1896 )

* June 14 – Carlos P. Garcia, 8th President of the Philippines ( b. 1896 )

Campinas was the birthplace of opera composer Carlos Gomes ( 1836 — 1896 ) and of the President of the Republic Campos Salles ( 1841 — 1913 ).

Gen. Jose Paulin ( December 1876-April 1877 ), Col Carlos Martinez ( Sept 1877-Feb 1880 ), Col. Rafael de Rivera ( 1880 – 81 ), Col. Isidro G. Soto ( 1881 – 82 ), Col. Eduardo Bremon, ( 1882 ), Col. Julian Parrrado ( 1882 – 84 ), Col. Francisco Castilla ( 1884 – 86 ), Col. Juan Arolas ( 1886 – 93 ), Col. Caesar Mattos ( 1893 ), Gen. Venancio Hernandez ( 1893 – 96 ), and Col. Luis Huerta ( 1896 – 99 ).

Antônio Carlos Gomes (, July 11, 1836 — September 16, 1896 ) was the first New World composer whose work was accepted by Europe.

However, shortly after arriving, Carlos Gomes, by then an elderly man in poor health, died on September 16, 1896.

The monumental building, designed by Roland le Vacher in 1888 to house the Au Bon Marché shops, also housed the National Museum of Fine Arts from 1896 to 1910, and thereafter the head office of the Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway ; restored in 1991, its grand interiors also feature ceiling frescoes by Antonio Berni, Juan Carlos Castagnino, and other famed Argentine painters.

Between 1896 and 1897, he named Carlos Antúnez as his Minister of the Interior and charged him with guaranteeing free and " clean " elections.

In 1896, King Carlos I, a lover of all maritime activities, installed in the citadel the first oceanographic laboratory in Portugal.

Carlos Polistico García ( November 4, 1896 – June 14, 1971 ) was a Filipino teacher, poet, orator, lawyer, public official, political economist and guerrilla leader.

* Carlos P. Garcia ( 1896 – 1971 ), Filipino poet and President

Jose Paulin ( December 1876-April 1877 ), Col Carlos Martinez ( Sept 1877-Feb 1880 ), Col. Rafael de Rivera ( 1880 – 1881 ), Col. Isidro G. Soto ( 1881 – 1882 ), Col. Eduardo Bremon, ( 1882 ), Col. Julian Parrrado ( 1882 – 1884 ), Col. Francisco Castilla ( 1884 – 1886 ), Col. Juan Arolas ( 1886-18930, Col. Caesar Mattos ( 1893 ), Gen. Venancio Hernandez ( 1893 – 1896 ) and Col. Luis Huerta ( 1896 – 1899 ).

Some of these include the Cervecería Toluca y México by Swiss Agustín Marendaz in 1865, Cervecería Cruz Blanca in Mexico City by Emil Dercher in 1869 ( which produced the first lager ), the San Diego Brewery by Carlos Fredenbaen in 1860, the Cervercería Yucateca by José Ponce Solis in Mérida in 1869 ( with German equipment and a German brewer ), the Fábrica de Cerveza y Hielo in Monterrey in 1886, the Cevercería Piazzini in Monterrey in 1889, the Cervecería Estrella by Juan E. Ohrner in 1890, the Cervecería Guillermo Hasse y Compañia in Orizaba by Henry Manthey, William Hasse, Cuno Van Alten and Adolph Burhard ( which started production at 15, 000 bottles daily and would later change its name to Cervecería Moctezuma ), the Cervecería Chihuahua by Juan Terrazas in Chihuahua in 1896, the Cervecería Sonora by George Gruning, Dr. Albert Hoeffer, and Jacob Schuele in 1896, the Cervecería del Pacífico by Jorge Claussen, Germán Evers and Emilio Philippy in 1900.

* July 26 – Joseph P. Fyffe, American admiral ( d. 1896 )

By 1896, with financing from moguls like J. P. Morgan, John Jacob Astor IV, and the Vanderbilts, they had constructed giant underground conduits leading to turbines generating upwards of, and were sending power as far as Buffalo, away.

For example, in 1896, W. P.

The Newport News Waterworks was begun as a project of Collis P. Huntington as part of the development of the lower peninsula with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, the coal piers on the harbor of Hampton Roads, and massive shipyard which were the major sources of industrial growth which helped found Newport News as a new independent city in 1896.

The Newport News Waterworks was begun as a project of Collis P. Huntington as part of the development of the lower peninsula with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, the coal piers on the harbor of Hampton Roads, and massive shipyard which were the major sources of industrial growth which helped found Newport News as a new independent city in 1896.

It is named for Wyley P. Mangham ( died 1896 ), the publisher of the Richland Beacon-News, a weekly newspaper in Rayville, the seat of Richland Parish.

In 1896, the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad established Ballantine as a station, named for homesteader E. P. Ballantine.

Joel B. Peck, H. A. Cook ; 1879, William Moul ; 1880, C. Snyder ; 1881, Albert Kilmer ; 1882, Ezra W. Knowlton ; 1883, William Moul ; 1884, B. J. L. Sliter ; 1885, Albert Kilmer ; 1885, A. H. Cipperly ( appointed to fill, vacancy ); 1886, A. H. Cipperly ; 1887, Addison P. Lape ; 1888, C. Snyder ; 1889, Albert Kilmer ; 1890, Addison P. Lape ; 1891, Addison TJline ; 1892, E. M. Gregory, Le Grand M. Turner ( appointed to fill vacancy ); 1893, Sanford B. Horton ; 1894, Le Grand M. Turner ; 1895, Addison Uline ; 1896, Aipheus Bailey.

In 1920 G P Gould ( 1896 – 1920 ) passed on to H Wheeler Robinson the role of Principal, a post he would hold until 1942.

In 1896 present day Wyomissing began to take form when Thomas P. Merritt ( a Reading lumber dealer ) acquired six hundred acres.

In 1896, Theodore P Brown introduced and marketed the " Aeriol Piano ", which was the first substantially complete player piano.

In September 1896 reference to the English edition was dropped, and it was published as the Fourteenth Edition, edited by Bern B. Gallaudet, F. J. Brockway, and J. P. McMurrich, who also edited the Fifteenth Edition ( October 1901 ).

* Henry P. Ford, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1896 to 1899

& P. S .) through the park in 1896 provided the first easy access to the area.

The new system of districts did not last long, however, as one year later, on August 4, 1896 ( the 33rd year of King Gojong ), the former eight provinces were restored, with five of them ( Chungcheong, Gyeongsang, Jeolla, Hamgyŏng, and P ' yŏngan ), being divided into north and south halves, to form a total of 13 provinces.

:* Wamba O. P .- Cambridge, 1896

Nan P. " Nanny " Britton ( November 9, 1896 – March 21, 1991 ) was a figure associated with the Presidency of Warren G. Harding due to her claim that Harding fathered her illegitimate daughter shortly before his election as President.

Hwanghae was bounded by P ' yŏngan ( after 1896 South P ' yŏngan ) on the north, Kangwŏn on the east, Gyeonggi on the south, and the Yellow Sea on the west.

The province was formed in 1896 from the northern half of the former P ' yŏng ' an Province, remained a province of Korea until 1945, then became a province of North Korea.

The province was formed in 1896 from the southern half of the former P ' yŏng ' an Province, remained a province of Korea until 1945, then became a province of North Korea.

:* Teudis O. P .- Cambridge, 1896