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 )

* November 1 – Florence Mills, American cabaret singer ( b. 1896 )

Vigeland spent the years 1891 to 1896 in several voyages abroad, including Copenhagen, Paris, Berlin and Florence.

* Florence Mills ( 1896 – 1927 ), African American cabaret singer, dancer, and comedian

After graduating in literature in Florence in 1896, he taught History at the universities of Messina ( during the 1908 Messina earthquake he was the only survivor of his entire family ), Pisa and Florence.

Among his other literary works may be mentioned: Saggi Critici ( 1868 ); Arte, Storia, e Filosofia ( Florence, 1884 ); Scritti varii ( Bologna, 1894 ); another volume of Saggi Critici ( Bologna, 1896 ); and a volume of Discussioni critiche e discorsi ( Bologna, 1905 ), containing his speeches as president of the Dante Alighieri Society.

* A-Birding on a Bronco, by Florence A. Merriam, 1896 ( scanned )

* 1896: Legends of Florence Collected from the People ( 2 vols.

The most successful of Audran's many comic operas were: Le grand mogol ( Marseille, 1877 ; Paris, 1884 ; London, as The Grand Mogul, 1884 with a libretto by Farnie, starring Florence St. John, Fred Leslie and Arthur Roberts ; New York as The Snake Charmer, 1881 ); La mascotte ( Paris, 1880 ; New York, 1881 ; London, as The Mascotte, 1881 with a libretto by Farnie, and cast including Lionel Brough and Henry Bracy ); Gillette de Narbonne ( Paris, 1882 ; London, as Gillette, 1883, libretto by Savile Clarke, with additional music by Walter Slaughter and Hamilton Clarke ); La cigale et la fourmi ( the grasshopper and the ant ) ( Paris, 1886 ; London, as La Cigale, 1890 ; English version by F. C. Burnand, starring Geraldine Ulmar, Eric Lewis and Brough ); Miss Helyett ( Paris, 1890 ; London, as Miss Decima, 1891, libretto by Burnand ); and La poupée ( Paris, 1896 ; London, 1897, libretto by Arthur Sturgess, starring Courtice Pounds and Willie Edouin ).

About 1896, he married Florence Sachs, and they had four children.

Holmes was the daughter of Norwegian immigrant Louis A. Holmes ( born in Norway in October 1862 ), a railroad clerk employed by the Illinois Central Railroad, who had migrated to the United States in 1867, and his wife Sophia ( born April 1869 in Indiana ), and was the sister of Frank O. Holmes ( born June 1889 in Illinois ) and Florence ( born in May 1896 in Illinois ), and two other siblings who died in infancy.

He married Florence Carrighan in 1894, but she died in childbirth in 1896.

Lettere e documenti di B. Ricasoli ( Florence, 1887 – 1896 ), and D. Zanichelli's Lettere politiche di B. Ricasoli, U. Peruzzi, N. Corsini, e C. Rdolfi ( Bologna, 1898 ).

On November 6, 1896 it was renamed Custer County after General George Armstrong Custer, who had massacred the Southern Cheyenne Indians at the Battle of the Washita 20 miles west in Roger Mills County, and was killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

The Western Knitting Mills, built in 1896, was owned by the Chapman brothers.

* Western Knitting Mills-The Western Knitting Mills, a large brick building on Water Street, was built in 1896.

The Efird Manufacturing Co. ( later American and Efird Mills ) opened its first mill in Albemarle in 1896, and was followed soon thereafter by the Wiscasset Mill Company, the Cannon Mill Company, the Lillian Knitting Mill and others.

By 1870, it was called Waterworks River as far north as Temple Mills depot, and by 1896, its present connection to the old river near to Carpenters Road had been established.

In 1891 Mills was a candidate in the Democratic caucus for Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, but was defeated by Charles F. Crisp ( 1845 – 1896 ) of Georgia.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier appointed Mills to the Canadian Senate after he lost his Commons seat in 1896, and appointed him to Cabinet as Minister of Justice and Leader of the Government in the Canadian Senate.

A railway connection with Kolkata, capital of British India, made in 1860, made the town an alluring location for mills and factories, including the Jagneshwar Engineering Works ( 1896 ), Renwick and Company ( 1904 ), and the Mohini Mills ( 1919 ).

* Hotel Greenwich / Mills Hotel No. 1, New York City, 1896