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 )

Langdon ( 1896 ) records six crosses in the parish of which the finest is at Carminow.

At the 1896 Summer Olympics, six cycling events were contested at the Neo Phaliron Velodrome.

In October 1896, the cabal of six strong clubs broke with the association to form the VFL and invited two other clubs to join them: Carlton and St Kilda.

A published 1896 history of Chariton County lists among the businesses and ameneties two newspapers serving the community, six physicians, a soda-pop factory, cigar factory, and a city-owned power plant for electricity.

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

His father fell ill around 1890 and was admitted to mental hospital where he died six years later in April 1896.

Krukenberg tumors are named after Friedrich Ernst Krukenberg ( 1871 – 1946 ), who reported what he thought was a new type of primary ovarian malignancy in 1896 ; six years later these were shown to be of metastatic gastrointestinal tract origin.

Paul Mayerhoff lived in this tent for six months in 1896 at the beginning of his Call as a Wisconsin Synod missionary to the Apache.

In 1896, Ginsberg became editor of Hashiloah, a Hebrew monthly, a position he held for six years.

Langdon ( 1896 ) records six stone crosses in the parish, of which three are at the vicarage.

The average rate for a one room apartment was 611. 61 CHF ( US $ 490, £ 280, € 390 ), a two room apartment was about 816. 64 CHF ( US $ 650, £ 370, € 520 ), a three room apartment was about 1007. 47 CHF ( US $ 810, £ 450, € 640 ) and a six or more room apartment cost an average of 1896. 51 CHF ( US $ 1520, £ 850, € 1210 ).

In 1896, Oklahoma A & M held its first commencement with six male graduates.

Together with August Palm one of the main organizers of the Swedish Social Democratic Party in 1889, and was its first Member of Parliament from 1896, and for six years the only one.

Allison was reelected to six-year terms in the U. S. Senate six times — in 1878, 1884, 1890, 1896, and 1902.

They had twelve children, six boys and six girls: Oliver William Foster ( 1878 – 1955 ), Francis Brodie ( 1880 – 1967 ), Alec ( 1881 – 1938 ), Lionel ( 1883 – 1948 ), Noel ( 1885 – 1962 ), Violet ( 1888 – 1924 ), Raymond ( 1889 – 1915 ), Honor ( 1891 – 1979 ), Lorna ( 1892 – 1987 ), Norah ( 1894 – 1990 ), Barbara ( 1896 – 1983 ), and Rosalynde ( 1896 – 1983 ).

The fourth lasted six months during 1896.

The six acre site of the fort was originally purchased by the Ministry of Defence in 1891, and construction began in 1896.

Cinema was introduced to India on 7 July 1896, when the Lumiere brothers ' Cinématographe showed six short silent films at Watson's Hotel in Bombay.

In 1896, Arbeit und Rhythmus ( Labor and Rhythm ), Bücher's perhaps most fascinating work, appeared ; there are six editions until 1924.

He played in the Major Leagues from 1890 to 1905, primarily as an outfielder, and had an accomplished hitting career, smacking 200 hits in a season six times and batting over. 400 twice ( 1895 and 1896 ), only the second hitter in Major League history to do so, the first being Ed Delahanty.

Langdon ( 1896 ) recorded that six stone crosses existed in the parish, including two in the churchyard.