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 – 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 )

In 1896 the name was changed to Hilton to honor Reverend Charles Augustus Hilton, a former pastor of the village's Freewill Baptist Church.

The Edinburgh Gazette of 17 November 1896 announces " INTIMATION is hereby given that the Reverend THOMAS ANGUS MORRISON, Minister of the Parish of Kirkintilloch, in the Presbytery of Glasgow and County of Dumbarton, has, under and by virtue of " The Glebe Lands ( Scotland ) Act, 1866 ," presented a ; Petition to the Lords of Council and Session, Commissioners for the Plantation of Kirks and Valuation of Teinds, for authority to Feu the GLEBE OF KIRKINTILLOCH ; and that an Interlocutor has been pronounced therein in the following terms ...." After depositing £ 400 with the " Lord of the Manor " or " Patron " T Angus Morrison becomes Minister of St Mary's.

The Very Reverend Charles A. Vassani ( 1831 – 1896 ) established the U. S. Commissariat of the Holy Land in 1880, in New York City.

On June 18, 1896, Howard spoke at the Harrow School, an elementary school at Cumberland Gap founded a few years earlier by Reverend A.

In their treatise Chess Openings Ancient and Modern ( 1889, 1896 ), E. Freeborough and the Reverend C. E.

In 1896, the Leach Family erected a large wooden hotel to accommodate the travelers and workers of the railroad, and the hotel ( The Star Hotel Bed and Breakfast ) is still standing today and is owned by Gary Spivey.

In 1896 and 1897 Chanute, Herring and Avery tested hang gliders based on designs by German aviator Otto Lilienthal, as well as hang gliders of their own design, in the sandhills on the shores of Lake Michigan near the town of Miller Beach not far from what would become the city of Gary, Indiana.

In 1929, her mother married Loyal Davis ( 1896 – 1982 ), a prominent, politically conservative neurosurgeon who moved the family to Chicago.

* Hallowell Davis ( 1896 – 1992 ), pioneer in studying the physiology of hearing, at the Central Institute for the Deaf

In 1914, Fred Fisher married Ana Fisher ( Davidovitch, later Anglicized as Davis ; born 1896 ).

Three Gringos in Central America and Venezuela, 1896 book by Richard Harding Davis ( poster by Edward Penfield )

While not re-elected, McGill remained active in politics, supporting the presidential candidacy of Cushman K. Davis ( 1896 ) and serving as state senator from the 37th District, St. Paul ( 1899 – 1905 ).

Davis served as prosecuting attorney of the Fifth Judicial District of Arkansas from 1892 to 1896.

* Hallowell Davis ( 1896 – 1992 )-researcher of hearing, contributor to the invention of the electroencephalograph.

His days in Pittsburgh finished, on July 25, 1896, Beckley was traded to the New York Giants for Harry Davis and $ 1, 000.

When Davis, along with local historian Charles Leng, coauthored a history of Staten Island in 1896, they wrote that:

* Stringer Davis ( 1896 – 1973 ), English actor

* William Stearns Davis 1896, historian and educator

* George Davis ( politician ) ( 1820 – 1896 ), Confederate States Attorney General

Harry H. Davis ( July 19, 1873 – August 11, 1947 ) was a Major League Baseball first baseman and right-handed batter who played for the New York Giants ( 1895 – 96 ), Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1896 – 98 ), Louisville Colonels ( 1898 ), Washington Senators ( 1898 – 99 ), Philadelphia Athletics ) ( 1901 – 11, 1913 – 17 ), and Cleveland Naps ( 1912 ).

* Robert Davis Carey ' 1896.

Matthew S. Davis, who had previously served twenty-five years as principal of the male academy, became president of the female college in 1896 and held the office until his death in 1906.

George Wallace Jones ( 1804 – 1896 ) was imprisoned on a charge of disloyalty based upon correspondence with Jefferson Davis.

In 1896, the Band played at the Jefferson Davis Monument dedication in Richmond, Virginia.

On October 14, 1896, he married Eliza Frothingham Davis, ( January 17, 1871-June 20, 1907 ), and then remarried Susan Thayer ( born October 1, 1885 ) on June 1, 1912 in Lancaster, Massachusetts.

* Henry Gassett Davis ( 1807 – 1896 ), American orthopedic surgeon

It dates from the 15th century, being restored in 1855 by Maurice Davis of Langport and again in 1896.

Nathaniel Frampton Davis Thomson ( 29 May 1839, Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales – 2 September 1896, Burwood, Sydney ) was an Australian cricketer who played in the first two Tests ever played, in 1877.