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 )

On 9 January 1896 his ninth daughter Tokugawa Tsuneko ( 1882 – 1939 ) married Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu, a second cousin to both Emperor Shōwa ( Hirohito ) and Empress Kōjun, and nephew of Prince Kan ' in Kotohito.

In 1896 a Japanese tsunami killed 27,000 people and swept away 10,000 homes.

* Japanese Cinema Database, maintained by the Agency for Cultural Affairs ( films after 1896, in Japanese )

* 1896 – Chiyono Hasegawa, a Japanese supercentenarian.

The 8th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army were stationed in Aomori from 1896.

Ginkgo sperm were first discovered by the Japanese botanist Sakugoro Hirase in 1896.

In 1896, Yamagata led a diplomatic mission to Moscow, which produced the Yamagata – Lobanov Agreement confirming Japanese and Russian rights in Korea.

Prince was a Japanese politician and the 4th ( 6 May 1891 – 8 August 1892 ) and 6th ( 18 September 1896 – 12 January 1898 ) Prime Minister of Japan.

Nogi was appointed as the third Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan from 14 October 1896 to February 1898.

The Japanese government, however, claimed that this control included all the rights and privileges that China granted to Russia in the 1896 Li-Lobanov Treaty, as enlarged by the Kwantung Lease Agreement of 1898.

* Walter Weston, Mounteneering and Exploration in the Japanese Alps, London, John Murray, 1896

In 1896 Kim Gu murdered, robbed and abandoned a Japanese merchant named Tsuchida, who he thought was connected to the murder of the last Queen of the Joseon Dynasty, Queen Min ( this suspicion has not since been confirmed or discredited ).

After assassination, King Gojong and the crown prince ( later Emperor Sunjong ) fled for refuge to the Russian legation in 1896, this led to the general repeal of the Gabo Reforms, which were thought to be the result of Japanese influence.

In 1896, after the establishment of Japanese colonial rule of Taiwan, Mackay met with the Japanese Governor-General of Formosa, Maresuke Nogi.

In 1896, he published Masters of Ukioye, a historical account of Japanese paintings and color prints exhibited at the New York Fine Arts Building.

* The Masters of Ukioye: a Complete Historical Description of Japanese Paintings and Color Prints of the Genre School, New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1896

Most of the infantry were armed with either the standard 1896 Japanese Type 30 rifle or the Mauser 7. 9 mm.

Motono studied law in France, and in 1896 translated the civil code of the Japanese Empire into French.

* 1896 Japanese introduce gekiken, the precursor to modern kendo into the Korean police academies

The death of Japanese man Sukesaburo Nakanishi on 22 August 2007 meant that from then on Allingham shared the position of second-oldest man in the world with George Francis, an American man also born on 6 June 1896, for more than a year until Francis ' death on 27 December 2008.

By advice of Divers, M. Chikashige of the Kyoto Imperial University studied the atomic weight of Japanese tellurium in 1896, in the hope that this tellurium, which contrary to the European tellurium is associated with sulfur and not with any heavy metal, might yield an atomic weight in conformity with the periodic law.

For instance, the first Japanese temple in Hawaii was built in 1896 near Paauhau by the Honpa Hongwanji branch of Jodo Shinshu.

The poem read by Sayuri in class is from the poem collection by a well-known Japanese writer Kenji Miyazawa ( 1896 – 1933 ).