The early days of the industry, from 1896 to 1902, saw the dominance of four firms: Pathé Frères, the Gaumont Film Company, the Georges Méliès company, and the Lumières.

Ed Delahanty was the first, hitting his four in Chicago's West Side Park on July 13, 1896.

For example, swimming has been part of Olympic Swimming since 1896, and the current program contains events from 100m to 1500m in length, across all four main strokes and medley.

The modern Olympics have been held during the summer months every four years since 1896 ( though the 2000 Sydney olympics happened when it was technically winter there ).

The four leaders were sentenced to death by hanging, but this sentence was next day commuted to 15 years ' imprisonment ; and in June 1896, the other members of the Committee were released on payment of £ 2, 000 each in fines, all of which were paid by Cecil Rhodes.

All the four major sports within athletics have featured in the Olympic athletics programme since its inception in 1896, although cross country has since been dropped.

The Austrian composer Franz Schmidt ( referred to in Fischer 2003,, as " second only to Mahler in importance "), wrote four symphonies between 1896 and 1933, of which the Second and Fourth were not in the traditional four-movement form ( although both of these symphonies made explicit reference to it ).

The Great Northern Railway and the Northern Pacific tried to merge four times, in 1896, 1901, 1927, and 1955.

Leslie Richard ( Dick ) Groves Jr. was born in Albany, New York, on 17 August 1896, the third son of four children of a pastor, Leslie Richard Groves, Sr, and his wife Gwen née Griffith.

At the 1896 Summer Olympics, four swimming events were contested, all for men.

Bemidji Township was surveyed in 1874, and organized in 1896, twenty four days after the village of Bemidji was chartered, and is the oldest township in the county.

By 1896 the estimated population had increased to 150, including nine fruit growers and four alfalfa growers.

This was apparently a compromise: after the successful games of Athens 1896, the Greeks suggested they could organize the games every four years.

The following season, Baltimore and Cleveland again finished first and second in the NL, but in the battle for the 1896 Temple Cup, the second-place Spiders were swept in four games.

Her father, William A. Brady, was an important theatrical producer, and her mother was Rose Marie Rene, who died in 1896 when Alice was four.

* Theodore Roosevelt publishes the first of four volumes of The Winning of the West, with three more by 1896.

Harburg, the youngest of four surviving children ( out of ten ), was born Isidore Hochberg on the Lower East Side of New York City on April 8, 1896.

Carter was born in Plains, Georgia, the eldest of the four children of Allie M. Smith ( 1905 – 2000 ), a dressmaker, and Wilburn Edgar Smith ( 1896 – 1940 ), an automobile mechanic and farmer.

By 1896, Grand Army Plaza sported four towering granite columns adorned with carved fasces and eagles at the base.

Although the four railroads shared common ownership ( including the headquarters building in Saint Paul, Minnesota ) from the days of the James J. Hill era, the four railroads previously have unsuccessfully attempted four mergers to unify the Hill Lines: 1896, 1901, 1927 and 1955.

Of the more than thirty wooden figures brought to Kabul in 1896 or shortly thereafter, fourteen went to the Kabul Museum and four to the Musée Guimet and the Musée de l ' Homme in Paris.

The Prince and Princess had four children, but ten years into their marriage, on 20 January 1896, Prince Henry died of malaria while fighting in the Anglo-Asante War.

* 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.

Diesel spent two more years making improvements and in 1896 demonstrated another model with a theoretical efficiency of 75 percent, in contrast to the 10 percent efficiency of the steam engine.

Seven years later in 1896, a French experimenter, H. Baravuc, created electrographs of hands and leaves.

This 3 * 3 kneeling bow continued more than 250 years until 1896 when Korean Empire declared independence as a result of 1st Japan-Sino war.

Soon he would begin his own architectural practice with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret ( 1896 – 1967 ), a partnership that would last until the 1950s, with an interruption in the WWII years, due to Le Corbusier's ambivalent position towards the Vichy regime.

She returned home in 1896 following her father's request that she come home to nurse her mother, who died three years later in 1899.

The craze ended by July 1880 and Sam Loyd's first article about the puzzle was not published until sixteen years later, January 1896.

The Australians understood this twenty years later when Joe Darling, touring England for the first time in 1896, said: " We were all told not to trust the Old Man as he was out to win every time and was a great bluffer ".

Although he would only be 36 years old in 1896 — one year above the constitutional minimum — he believed the silver question could carry him not only to the nomination, but to the presidency.

It was not until about 170 years later, in 1896 that an Italian doctor discovered a less painful method which is still in use today.

After Louise's death, and after bearing criticism of his war record from other Confederates for decades, Longstreet refuted most of their arguments in his memoirs entitled From Manassas to Appomattox, a labor of five years that was published in 1896.

Another example of this pacification can be taken from the years revolving around 1896 in which the British empire destroyed large amounts of grain and food stocks, suppressing a riot being formed by the Ndeblee tribe.

He was born about 1815-16, signed together with his cousin, Mistāwasis in 1876 the Treaty 6 at Fort Carlton, where he agreed that his group were settled into a reserve near the present-day Prince Albert, died 4 December 1896 at the age of 81 years )

The Nobel Prize medals for Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature have identical obverses, showing the image of Alfred Nobel and the years of his birth and death ( 1833 – 1896 ).

In 1896, his bankruptcy was discharged, but, as he could not sell the Hope Diamond without the court's permission, he was supported by his wife during these intervening years.

Miami and its metropolitan area grew from just over one thousand residents to nearly five and a half million residents in just 110 years ( 1896 – 2006 ).

A number of his volumes remain in print, The Book of Ceremonial Magic ( 1911 ), The Holy Kabbalah ( 1929 ), A New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry ( 1921 ), and his edited translation of Eliphas Levi's Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual ( 1896 ) among others by Levi, having seen reprints in recent years.

In his text Feudal and Modern Japan ( 1896 ), historian Arthur May Knapp wrote: The samurai of thirty years ago had behind him a thousand years of training in the law of honor, obedience, duty, and self-sacrifice ....

Two years later, in 1896, evidence came to light identifying a French Army major named Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy as the real culprit.

Black socks were first included in 1883 for five seasons before disappearing for eight years but became a more permanent fixture from 1896 onwards.

Dukakis's father Panos ( 1896 – 1979 ) was a Greek immigrant from Adramyttion ( Edremit ), in Turkey, which was then the Ottoman Empire, who settled in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1912, and graduated from Harvard Medical School twelve years later, subsequently working as an obstetrician.

In the basement of the new Ellicott Square Building, Main Street, Buffalo, New York, Mitchell Mark ( properly spelled Mitchel Mark ) and his brother Moe Mark added what they called Edison's Vitascope Theater ( entered through Edisonia Hall ), which they opened to the general public on October 19, 1896 in collaboration with Rudolf Wagner, who had moved to Buffalo after spending several years working at the Edison laboratories.