In 1896, delegates from the stronger and wealthier VFA clubs — Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne — met to form a breakaway competition and in 1897, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), was born as an eight-team competition.

Holland followed in 1895, Switzerland in 1896, and Austria and Brazil in 1897.

He also began an intense study of Elizabethan literature thinking there might be evidence that Francis Bacon wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare ( see Shakespearean authorship question ); this ultimately resulted in two pamphlets, published in 1896 and 1897.

In 1896 or 1897, Westcott broke all ties to the Golden Dawn, leaving Mathers in control.

Between 1896 and 1897, rinderpest crippled the economic backbone of the Herero and Nama economy and slowed white expansion.

The Shona staged unsuccessful revolts ( known as Chimurenga ) against encroachment upon their lands, by clients of BSAC and Cecil Rhodes in 1896 and 1897.

In May 1896, Shaikh Muhammad Al-Sabah was assassinated by his half-brother, Mubarak, who, in early 1897, was recognized, by the Ottoman sultan, as the qaimmaqam ( provincial sub-governor ) of Kuwait.

A son of Harry Caswell Noland ( 1896 – 1975 ), a pathologist, and his wife, Bessie ( 1897 – 1980 ), Kenneth Clifton Noland was born in Asheville, North Carolina.

The Gazeta Ludowa was published in Lyck in 1896 – 1902, with 2, 500 copies in 1897 and the Mazur in Ortelsburg after 1906 with 500 copies in 1908 and 2, 000 prior to World War I.

The Protectorate Ordinances ( passed in the Colony in 1896 and 1897 ) abolished the title of King and replaced it with " Paramount Chief "; chiefs and kings had formerly been selected by the leading members of their own communities, now all chiefs, even paramount ones, could be deposed or installed at the will of the Governor ; most of the judicial powers of the chiefs were removed and given to courts presided over by British " District Commissioners "; the Governor decreed that a house tax of 5s to 10s was to be levied annually on every dwelling in the Protectorate.

Soon international shooting events evolved, including shooting at the Summer Olympics ( from 1896 ) and World Championships ( from 1897 ).

The first person to employ the term as part of a publication's title was Edmond Demolins, another member of the Le Play School, whose article Géographie sociale de la France was published in 1896 and 1897.

* McFadden ’ s Row of Flats ( 18 October 1896 – 10 January 1897 )

* 1896 – 1897: Leadville Colorado, Miners ' Strike.

The opera quickly became popular throughout Italy and productions were soon mounted by the following companies: The Teatro di San Carlo ( 14 March 1896, with Elisa Petri as Musetta and Antonio Magini-Coletti as Marcello ); The Teatro Comunale di Bologna ( 4 November 1896, with Amelia Sedelmayer as Musetta and Umberto Beduschi as Rodolfo ); The Teatro Costanzi ( 17 November 1896, with Maria Stuarda Savelli as Mimì, Enrico Giannini-Grifoni as Rodolfo, and Maurizio Bensaude as Marcello ); La Scala ( 15 March 1897, with Angelica Pandolfini as Mimì, Camilla Pasini as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Edoardo Camera as Marcello ); La Fenice ( 26 December 1897, with Emilia Merolla as Mimì, Maria Martelli as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu and Franco Mannucci as Rodolfo, and Ferruccio Corradetti as Marcello ); Teatro Regio di Parma ( 29 January 1898, with Solomiya Krushelnytska as Mimì, Lina Cassandro as Musetta, Pietro Ferrari as Rodolfo, and Pietro Giacomello as Marcello ); And the Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo ( 21 August 1898, with Emilia Corsi as Mimì, Annita Barone as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu as Rodolfo, and Giovanni Roussel as Marcello ).

The 1896 Summer Olympics saw the birth of the modern marathon and the event led to the growth of road running competitions through annual events such as the Boston Marathon ( first held in 1897 ) and the Lake Biwa Marathon and Fukuoka Marathons, which were established in the 1940s.

Germinal in 1885, then the three ' cities ', Lourdes in 1894, Rome in 1896 and Paris in 1897, established Zola as a successful author.

A plague epidemic spread from Mumbai to Pune in late 1896, and by January 1897, it reached epidemic proportions.

The first 70 mm format film was most likely footage of the Henley Regatta, which was projected in 1896 and 1897, but may have been filmed as early as 1894.

** 1896, First report of the station on adulterated food products ; 1897 ; 1898 ; 1899 ; 1900 ; 1901 ; 1902 ; 1903 ; 1904 ; 1905 ; 1906 ; 1907: Food, Food, Drugs ; 1908: Not located ; 1909: Not located ; 1910: Not located ; 1911: Food, Drugs

A highlight is Octave Chanute launching a replica of his 1896 glider.

* Octave Chanute, United States — Summer 1896

The following spring on 8 May 1896, the post office changed to Herrin post office and cousins Harrison and Herrin, great-grandsons of Isaac Herring made plans for a new town.

* Robert Herring ( aviator ) ( 1896 –?

This effort led to conflict with the NAWSA ; in 1896, Rachel Foster Avery and a slim majority of younger NAWSA members voted to distance the organization from The Woman's Bible and from Stanton.

This self-propelled crawler was successfully tested and showed at a farmer's exhibition in 1896.

This self-propelled crawler was successfully tested and showed at farmers ' exhibition in 1896.

In 1896 the Fire Brigade had its capabilities tested to the utmost.

Octave Chanute's 1896 biplane hang glider, a trailblazing design adapted by the Wright brothers

Working in conjunction with his brother Gustav, he made over 2, 000 flights in gliders of his design starting in 1891 with his first glider version, the Derwitzer, until his death in a gliding crash in 1896.

Peace, 1896 etching by William Strutt, based upon Isaiah 11: 6, 7

Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser ( 1925 – 2008 ), but based on the character " Flashman " in Tom Brown's Schooldays ( 1857 ), a semi-autobiographical work by Thomas Hughes ( 1822 – 1896 ).

The Athens bid was based on sentiment, the fact that these Olympic Games would be the 100th Anniversary of the first Summer Games in Greece in 1896.

* Ruben Dario's Collection of poems, " Prosas Profanas " ( 1896 ) contains the poem " Coloquio de los Centauros " based upon Ovid's Metamorphoses.

The official newspaper serving Columbus County, The News Reporter, is also based in Whiteville and has been in circulation since 1896.

In a 7 to 1 decision handed down on May 18, 1896 ( Justice David Josiah Brewer did not participate because of the death of his daughter ), the Court rejected Plessy's arguments based on the Fourteenth Amendment, seeing no way in which the Louisiana statute violated it.

This view is based on his position of President / Supremo of the Katipunan revolutionary government from 1896 – 97.

Hannoverscher Sportverein von 1896, commonly referred to as Hannover 96, Hannover or simply 96, is a German association football club based in the city of Hanover, Lower Saxony.

The modern electronic scintillation counter was invented in 1944 by Sir Samuel Curran whilst he was working on the Manhattan Project at the University of California at Berkeley, and it is based on the work of earlier researchers reaching back to Antoine Henri Becquerel, who is generally credited with discovering radioactivity, whilst working on the phosphorescence of certain uranium salts ( in 1896 ).

Giordano then moved to Milan, and returned to verismo with his best-known work, Andrea Chénier ( 1896 ), based on the life of the French poet, André Chénier.

Two pieces based on the Civil War remain his greatest works: Held by the Enemy ( 1886 ) and Secret Service ( 1896 ).

It is widely acknowledged that the fictional model of the book's town, Winesburg, is based on Sherwood Anderson's boyhood memories of Clyde, Ohio, where Anderson lived between the ages of eight and nineteen ( 1884 – 1896 ), and not the actual town of Winesburg, Ohio located in the same state.

The Gregorian calendar was officially adopted in 1896, but traditional holidays and age-reckoning for older generations are still based on the old calendar.

Fukuzawa stated the mission of Keio shown below, which is based on his speech at the alumni party on November 1 in 1896.

By the time he attended a standardisation conference in Paris, France, in May 1896, the international consensus was that all ephemerides should be based on Newcomb's calculations — Newcomb's Tables of the Sun.

Greenway was able to win large majorities in 1892 and 1896, based largely on single-issue populism relating to the schools question.

In 1896 he published a textbook entitled Modern Architecture in which he expressed his ideas about the role of the architect ; it was based on the text of his 1894 inaugural lecture to the Academy.

Greenway's second and third majorities were based almost entirely on popular support for his education reforms ; with the education issue resolved in 1896, the Conservatives had a viable chance to form government.

*( 1896 – 1970 ) Juan Czajkowski, Polish-Argentine journalist based in Posadas, capital of Misiones province where, for many years, he edited Polish-language newspaper, Orędownik

Yet it has been a useful work, and in 1903 its publishers determined on a new edition based on the third edition of " Herzog " which had been appearing since 1896.

In 1900 and 1901, a variety of existing Greek stamps ( Large Hermes heads, Small Hermes heads and 1896 Olympics ) were surcharged in black or red with new values and also with the letters " A M ", standing for the Greek words Αξία Μεταλλική (" Axia Metalliki " or " value in ( gold ) metal "), meaning that the face values were based on the gold standard of the Latin Monetary Union.

In 1895 the stadium was refurbished a second time for the 1896 Olympics, with completion funding provided by the Greek benefactor George Averoff, whose marble statue now stands at the entrance, based on designs by the architects Anastasios Metaxas and Ernst Ziller.

Founded in 1896, it was based on an earlier Winnipeg organization known as the Independent Labour Party ( which was influenced by the British party of the same name, but was not formally connected to any other group ).

This is the full table of the medal count of the 1896 Summer Olympics, based on the medal count of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ).