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 )

The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H. M. S.

Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.

* 1896 – An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L.

Seven years later in 1896, a French experimenter, H. Baravuc, created electrographs of hands and leaves.

In 1896, theologian J. H. Worman identified seven categories of pantheism: Mechanical or materialistic ( God the mechanical unity of existence ); Ontological ( abstract unity, Spinoza ); Dynamic ; Psychical ( God is the soul of the world ); Ethical ( God is the universal moral order, Johann Gottlieb Fichte ); Logical ( Hegel ); and Pure ( absorption of God into nature, which Worman equates with atheism ).

H. Oskar Sommer first put forth this theory in his 1890 edition of Le Morte d ' Arthur and Harvard Professor George Lyman Kittredge provided the evidence in 1896.

* March 12 – Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle ( d. 1896 )

* H. G. Wells published The Time Machine ( 1895 ), The Island of Doctor Moreau ( 1896 ), and The War of the Worlds ( 1898 ).

* August 30 – Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino writer and journalist ( d. 1896 )

His great-great-great-grandson was the Congressman William H. Harrison of Wyoming ( 1896 – 1990 ).

* Robert H. Snyder, state representative from Tensas Parish from 1890 – 1896 and 1904 – 1906, Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives in the second term, died in office ; Lieutenant governor from 1896 – 1900

1868, Lewis Robins ; 1869, Washington Snyder ; 1870 – 1871, Sylvester M. Lester ; 1872 – 1873, George F. Rogers ; 1874 – 1875, Alvin H. Cipperly ; 1876 – 1880, Arthur M. Peck ; 1881 – 1885, James C. Cotton ; 1886 – 1888, Sanford B. Horton ; 1889 – 1895, Frank Pettit ; 1896 -, John B. Martin.

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.

The first electric starter was installed on an Arnold ( automobile ), an adaptation of the Benz Velo, built 1896 in East Peckham, England by electrical engineer H. J. Dowsing.

H. Warington Smyth, who served as Director of the Department of Mines in Siam from 1891 to 1896, refers to it in his book first published in 1898 as " the Me Nam Chao Phraya.

Originally Samuel Holland Rous ( who recorded as S. H. Dudley, but is not to be confused with the black vaudeville performer Sherman H. Dudley ) formed a vocal quartet in 1896 to record for Edison ’ s studios.

The Bethlehem Steel plant, photographed circa 1896 by William H. Rau