* " The Geological Spieler " ( short story, 1896 )

Higuchi's literary career was cut short in 1896, when she contracted, and soon died of, tuberculosis.

There are short lives of Hunt by Cosmo Monkhouse (" Great Writers ," 1893 ) and by RB Johnson ( 1896 ).

Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).

His early works included two novels, but the best examples of his prose are perhaps to be found in his volumes of short stories, Pastorals of France ( 1877 ), Renunciations ( 1893 ), Orgeas and Miradou ( 1896 ), reprinted in 1905 as A Dream of Provence.

Actor Joseph Jefferson was most associated with the character on the 19th century stage and made a series of short films in 1896 recreating scenes from his stage adaptation, and which are collectively in the U. S. National Film Registry.

Although the 1896 short story Moloch first made his name known as a writer, it was his novel The Duel ( 1905 ) which made him famous.

In the month of March, 1896, Henry made only short and infrequent visits to Paris.

He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).

Thomas Edison hired the play's stars, May Irwin and John Rice, to recreate the kiss seen in act 1 of the play for the 1896 short film, The Kiss, made in Edison's Kinetoscope process.

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.

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In 1896 appeared Christ in Hades, forming with a few other short pieces one of the slim paper-covered volumes of Elkin Mathews's Shilling Garland.

In 1896, he attempted suicide on his mother's grave, and a short stint in the Austrian army the following year ended with a nervous breakdown.

The years between the end of 1896, when he left the Exarchate's educational system and 1903 when he died, represented the final and most effective revolutionary phase of his short life.

He made two short visits to the Adrianople area of Thrace in 1896 and 1898.

In 1896 a series of stamps depicting Queen Victoria was issued, inscribed, these ran short in 1897 and stamps of Zanzibar were overprinted as the stamps of India had been previously.

* 7 September – Liam O ' Flaherty, novelist and short story writer ( born 1896 )

This collection of linked short stories is a prequel: it was written immediately after the success of The Prisoner of Zenda and was published in 1896, but is set in the 1730s, well over a century before the events of Zenda and its sequel, Rupert of Hentzau.

: The Marriage Act 1811 or the Marriage of Lunatics Act 1811 ( 51 Geo. 3 c. 37 ) ( the second short title was conferred by the Short Titles Act 1896, s. 1 & first Sch.

: The Marriage Act 1823 ( 4 Geo. 4 c. 76 ) ( short title: 1896 Act, s. 1 )

: The Marriage Act 1824 ( 5 Geo. 4 c. 32 ) ( short title: 1896 Act, s. 1 )

: The Marriage Act 1835 ( 5 & 6 Will. 4 c. 54 ) ( short title: 1896 Act, s. 1 )

: The Marriage Act 1836 ( 6 & 7 Will. 4 c. 85 ) ( short title: 1896 Act, s. 1 )

In the consistory of 1896 he was elevated to Cardinal Priest of Santi Nereo e Achilleo.

was elevated to the graduate school curriculum as a second bachelor's degree starting in 1896 with Harvard Law School under Christopher Columbus Langdell, " the father of modern American legal education.

It was elevated to town status on June 11, 1894, and was transferred to the administrative control of Tagata District, Shizuoka in 1896.

One piece of structure, the elevated portion of the Franklin Avenue Shuttle, built in 1896 and 1905, was extensively rebuilt in 1999.

Already made a member of the Legion of Honor, for his contributions to the French economy at a time of crisis, in 1896 Alphonse de Rothschild was elevated to the Grand Cross, the highest class of the Legion of Honor.

In 1896, returning to New York to fight against Mike Donovan he was acclaimed by World Heavyweight Champion James J. Corbett as " the man to whom we owe the changes that have elevated the sport ".

This elevated station opened on August 15, 1896 to connect with the adjacent Franklin Avenue station of the Fulton Street Elevated.

This service consisted of a unique elevated monorail style train, and ran for only three summers from 1896 through 1898.

The west end of the line was extended north along Adams Street to an elevated station over Sands Street and High Street in 1896.

The Kings County Elevated Railway was connected to the Brighton Beach Line in 1896 by means of a ramp and short elevated line from a point south of the latter railroad's terminal at Atlantic and Franklin Avenues in Brooklyn.

In 1896, the Brighton, now the Brooklyn and Brighton Beach Railroad gained a connection with the Kings County Elevated Railway by means of a ramp and short elevated railway, connecting to the former line at Franklin Avenue and Fulton Street.

Starting in 1899, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company ( BRT ; 1896 – 1923 ) and Brooklyn – Manhattan Transit Corporation ( BMT ; 1923 – 1940 ) operated rapid transit lines in New York City — at first only elevated railways and later also subways.

He elevated to Cardinal by Pope Leo XIII in the consistory of June 22, 1896.

* President Paul Kruger ( 1825-1904 ), President of the Transvaal ( first award in 1884, elevated to First Class in 1896 )

He accordingly introduced in the Riksdag of 1896 a very moderate bill for the extension of the franchise, which was, nevertheless, rejected by both chambers, all similar proposals by private members meeting the same fate.

An 1894 Chicago newspaper article was the catalyst in making the shore a resort area, and a rail line extension from nearby Coloma in 1896 started the building boom.

An extension from Connel Ferry to Ballachulish was authorised on 1 August 1896 and opened on 24 August 1903.

Successive Royal Commissions in 1890 & 1896 recommended a railway be built into the city, with the provision for an Eastern Suburbs extension, but both requests were ignored.

* 1896: an extension of time for the 1893 Act and changes to the construction of Bank station.

* 1898: an extension of time for the 1896 Act, plans to add sidings to the southern extension at Clapham Common and plans to sell King William Street station and its approach tunnels to the newly proposed City and Brixton Railway ( C & BR ).

His business thrived and, after extension, he travelled to England in 1896, leaving his manager of two years, James McWhirter, in charge.

A further extension southwards from Herculaneum Dock to Dingle was opened on 21 December 1896.

" The Manhattan Railway assumed operations of the Suburban in 1891 as an extension of the Third Avenue Line and through service between the Bronx and Manhattan began in 1896.

An extension to Douglas Junction on the NY & NE main line in Massachusetts opened in 1893, and the New England Railroad leased the line on July 1, 1896.

Nurses ' quarters were built in 1896 ; a two-storey extension, with isolation and outpatient facilities, opened in 1904, increasing the capacity to 114 patients ; additional wings were added in 1928 and 1945 ( the latter opened by Princess Elizabeth, who later became Queen Elizabeth II ); and the nurses ' quarters became another ward in 1966.

Following the extension of the Eastern Railway to Kalgoorlie in 1896, the station was an important hub for gold miners arriving in Western Australia via ship and then travelling to the Yilgarn and Eastern Goldfields.

His theatre was demolished in 1895 for an extension of Charing Cross Hospital, and he dissolved his theatre company after an 1896 tour.

On 1 July 1893, an extension via Lormont was opened, Three years later, on 1 August 1896 Bordeaux-État was opened, welcoming trains from Paris.