Chen took and passed the county-level imperial examination ( 鄉試 ) in 1896, and succeeded in the provincial-level examination ( 省試 ) the following year.

In 1883 he succeeded Leslie Stephen as editor of the Cornhill Magazine and continued in the post until the breakdown of his health in 1896.

He was succeeded in February 1896 by M. T. Steyn ( q. v.

In 1890 he was elected vice-president of the Senate, and in 1893 succeeded Jules Ferry as its president, a position he held from 27 March, 1893 to 16 January, 1896.

In May 1896, Alderman Troendle succeeded in putting through a resolution authoring the Board of Education to enter into a contract for 418 adjustable desks for the school at a cost of $ 2. 70 each.

He died in June 1896, aged 63, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son from his first marriage, John.

In 1896 he succeeded in implementing a form of universal male suffrage but made it palatable to the ruling interests of the Empire.

His great-grandson, the eighth Earl ( the son of Montagu Charles Francis Towneley-Bertie, Lord Norreys, who had assumed by Royal license his maternal grandfather's surname of Towneley in 1896 ), succeeded his distant relative ( his fifth cousin thrice removed ) the twelfth Earl of Lindsey in the earldom of Lindsey in 1938.

He was an Irish Representative Peer from 1896 to 1900. the titles are held by his great-grandson, the seventh Earl, who succeeded his grandfather in 1959.

On the death of his grandson, the seventh Earl ( who had succeeded his father in 1896 ), the barony of Clifford of Leighton Bromswold separated from the Irish titles.

He succeeded Louis-Olivier Taillon as Conservative Leader, became the tenth Premier of Quebec in 1896.

Entering his sixties and having been in government for over twenty years, Hardy lacked the energy and strength to take the government forward or excite the populace when he succeeded Mowat as both Premier and Attorney-General in 1896.

The third phase of the First Chimurenga was joined by the Hwata Dynasty of Mazoe. They succeeded in driving away the British settlers from their lands on 20 June 1896. Three months later, the British South Africa Police regrouped and establish control over the Hwata people after their Mambo ( King ) Hwata surrendered together with his spirit medium, Nehanda Nyakasikana.

* Reginald Windsor Sackville, 2nd Baron Buckhurst ( 1817 – 1896 ), succeeded as 7th Earl De La Warr in 1873

Beauchamp succeeded his father in the earldom in 1891 at the age of 18, and was mayor of Worcester between 1895 and 1896.

In 1896, he again ran for Governor and succeeded, serving two consecutive two-year terms as Governor of Alabama.

He was succeeded in 1896 by Dr Albert Lister Peace ( 1844 – 1912 ) who continued in the post until the year of his death.

The next election reform was enacted in 1896 by Kasimir Felix Graf Badeni, who succeeded in bringing about more radical reforms than Taaffe had achieved.

In 1879 he was appointed president of the Kaiserliche Academie der Wissenschaften ( Academy of Sciences ) at Vienna, and in 1896 succeeded von Sybel as chairman of the historical commission at Munich.

At the 1896 presidential convention, one of Palmer's main Illinois rivals was Governor John Peter Altgeld, who succeeded in getting his own candidate, former Illinoisan William Jennings Bryan, nominated for the presidency.

Harendra Kishore Singh, the last Maharaja of Bettiah, died in 1893, issueless and was succeeded by his first wife, who died in 1896.

At 22, when Mozaffar al-Din Mirza was succeeded to the throne in 1896 and became Mozaffar al-Din Shah ; Iraj was titled as the Head of Poets ( in Persian: Sadrol-Shaaeryn or Sadrol-Show-Araa ).

Maclaren's first stories of rural Scottish life, Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush ( 1894 ), achieved extraordinary popularity, selling more than 3 / 4 of a million copies, and were succeeded by other successful books, The Days of Auld Lang Syne ( 1895 ), Kate Carnegie and those Ministers ( 1896 ), and Afterwards and other Stories ( 1898 ).

Albert C. L. G. Günther offered him a position as Assistant at the Museum in March 1895, and after he succeeded to his baronetcy in 1896, he was promoted to acting Assistant Keeper in 1901.

Sir Joseph Prestwich FRS, ( 12 March 1812 – 23 June 1896 ) was a British geologist and businessman, known as an expert on the Tertiary Period and for having confirmed the findings of Boucher de Perthes of ancient flint tools in the Somme valley gravel beds.

Sketch of standard section crew tools from the B & O Railroad, published in Maintenance of way standards on American railways, 1896.

Consequently, on October 31, 1896, Mrs. King wrote to Thompson, quite against her daughter's wishes, asking him not to `` recommence a correspondence which I believe has been dropped for some weeks ''.

* The Philippines celebrates National Heroes Day in commemoration of the First Cry of the Philippine Revolution on August 23, 1896.

* He married, on November 2, 1896, in Poona, India, Shahzadi Begum, his first cousin and a granddaughter of Aga Khan I.

William Scott-Elliot in The Story of Atlantis ( 1896 ) elaborated on Blavatsky's account, claiming that Atlantis eventually split into two linked islands, one called Daitya and the other Ruta, and that the latter was later reduced to a final remnant called Poseidonis.

In 1896, he adopted the title of Zia-ul-Millat-Wa-ud Din (" Light of the nation and religion "); and his zeal for the cause of Islam induced him to publish treatises on jihad.

Besides fulfilling other journalistic engagements, Beckett was on the staff of Punch from 1874 to 1902, edited the Sunday Times 1891-1895, and the Naval and Military Magazine in 1896.

In 1903, the South Africa tour followed on from the 1896 tour, with red and white hooped jerseys.

The slight differences were that the red hoops were slightly thicker than the white ( the opposite was true in 1896 ), and the white flash on the socks introduced in 1899 was partially retained.

Some early ' skyscrapers ' were made in masonry, and demonstrated the limitations of the material – for example, the Monadnock Building in Chicago ( opened in 1896 ) is masonry and just 17 stories high ; the ground walls are almost thick, clearly building any higher would lead to excessive loss of internal floor space on the lower floors.

The Battle of Adwa ( usually known as Adowa, or sometimes by the Italian name Adua ) was fought on 1 March 1896 between Ethiopia and Italy near the town of Adwa, Ethiopia, in Tigray.

By late February 1896, supplies on both sides were running low.

After 1896 the system was changed to one on which a motor car was added to each train to maneuver at the terminals, while en route, the trains were still propelled by the cable.

After the commissioners submitted their report to the Governor on November 25, 1896, the Legislature replaced the Bureau with the Department of Highways.

The first game at the corner was an exhibition on April 13, 1896.

They played their first Western League game at Bennett Park on April 28, 1896, defeating the Columbus Senators 17 – 2.

Beatty was seconded to the Egyptian government on 3 June 1896 and appointed second in command of the river flotilla.

In 1895 and 1896 another Joint Anglo-Russian Boundary Commission agreed on the frontier boundary to the far northeast of Afghanistan, which bordered Chinese territory ( although the Chinese did not formally accept this as a boundary between the two countries until 1964.

In 1896, Munch moved to Paris, where he focused on graphic representations of his " Frieze of Life " themes.

Louis Lumiere worked with Victor Planchon to adapt the Lumiere " Blue Label " ( Etiquette Bleue ) photographic plate emulsion for use on celluloid roll film, which began in early 1896.

They play at Craven Cottage, a ground on the banks of the River Thames in Fulham which has been their home since 1896.

By the first days of January, Emperor Menelik, accompanied by his Queen Taytu Betul, had led large forces into Tigray, and besieged the Italians for 15 days ( 6 – 21 January 1896 ), trying in vain to storm the fort on several occasions, until the Italians surrendered with permission from the Italian Headquarters.

The result was the Battle of Adwa ( or Adowa ) on March 1, 1896.

The effect of combustion-produced carbon dioxide on the global climate, a special case of the greenhouse effect first described in 1896 by Svante Arrhenius, has also been called the Callendar effect.

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

Howard Hawks was born in Goshen, Indiana on May 30, 1896.