The monarchy collapsed in 1896 when the island was conquered and absorbed into the French colonial empire, from which the island gained independence in 1960.

After a brief de facto protectorate period beginning in 1885 the island became a full formal French protectorate in 1890, then a colony in 1896, and gained full independence from France in 1960 in the wake of decolonization.

Starting as a club sport in 1884, football gained varsity status in 1896.

In 1896, Hague's apparent prosperity gained him the attention of local tavern owner " Nat " Kenny who was seeking a candidate for constable in the upcoming primary to run against the candidate of a rival tavern owner.

Since their first season of play in 1896, the TCU football team had gained increasing attention and success every year and joined the Southwest Conference in 1923.

After Harrow Amery went to Balliol College, Oxford, where he performed well: he gained a First at in classical moderations in 1894 ; in literae humaniores in 1896 ; he was proxime accessit ( runner-up ) to the Craven scholar in 1894 and Ouseley scholar in Turkish in 1896, also winning a half-blue in cross-country running.

* January 1, 1896 The village of Uchinoumi gained town status to become the town of Uchinoumi ( 4 towns, 35 villages ).

It gained another three villages on April 1, 1896 with the annexation of.

In the 1896 general election, Foster officially gained reelection.

By 1908, for example, when John N. Pharr's son Henry Newton Pharr ( eponym of Pharr, Texas ) sought the Louisiana governorship as a Republican, he gained just 11. 1 percent, of a much reduced number of voters in comparison with his father's campaign against Foster in 1896.

From September 1895 to June 1896 Bruce worked at the Ben Nevis summit meteorological station, where he gained further experience in scientific procedures and with meteorological instruments.

He declined appointment as assistant attorney general of Texas in 1892, and an appointment to the state bench in 1896, but " gained experience as a trust prosecutor as a special counsel for the state of Texas ".

It immediately declared a protectorate over Zanzibar and, in the subsequent 1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War, gained full control of the sultanate.

Murdoch gained his Extra Master's Certificate at Liverpool in 1896, at the age of 23.

Louis Bromfield ( December 27, 1896 – March 18, 1956 ) was an American author and conservationist who gained international recognition winning the Pulitzer Prize and pioneering innovative scientific farming concepts.

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.

He gained access to the works of Lenin in 1896, particularly the latter's critique of Peter Berngardovich Struve.

His congregation never gained any importance, and wasted away after his death in 1896.

Alfred Benjamin Finnigan ( 18 September 1896 – 11 May 2005 ) was a British soldier who fought in World War I and gained fame because of his longevity.

The Uganda Missionaries were then followed by a typeset issue from a printing press in November, 1896, after the British Foreign Office had gained control of the government.

The shrine has also gained the Apostolic Blessing of the first pilgrimage by Pope Leo XIII in 1896, having been taken a positive attitude towards the site and towards Emmerich's visions.

In November Phillips made a formal request to his superiors in England for permission to invade Benin City, and, in late December 1896, without waiting for a reply or approval from London, Phillips embarked on a military expedition with two Niger Coast Protectorate Force officers, a medical officer, two trading agents, 250 African soldiers masquerading in part as porters, and in part as a drum and pipe band.

Leading Twain scholar Louis J. Budd said, “ Although Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc has disgraced Twain posthumously with several levels of readers, it met general approval in 1896 .”

He would not build a glider again to 1896.

William Jennings Bryan rose to national prominence when he built his historic ( though unsuccessful ) 1896 presidential campaign around the argument that deflation caused by the gold standard made it harder for everyday citizens to start new businesses, expand their farms, or build new homes.

Surveying began in 1896, and in spite of local protests, the Korean Empire gave Japan the right to build the line in 1898 .< ref name =" donga-hist "> Construction of the Gyeongbu Line started on August 20, 1901, with a ceremony at Yeongdeungpo, Seoul.

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 ).

Whitney became leader of the party in 1896 taking it from a narrow, bigoted rump into a forward-looking party determined to build the province.

* Shortly after the purchase of Gladiator cycles in 1896 Adolfe Clément began to build the new factory at Levallois-Perret in north west Paris.

Miguel Cané, former Mayor of Buenos Aires ( 1892 – 1893 ), also expressed in 1896 the need to build an underground railway similar to the one in London.

The 1896 Act defined a class of railways which did not require specific legislation to construct – companies could simply plan a line under the auspices of the new Act, and, having obtained a Light Railway Order, build and operate it.

In 1896 The Workmen's Insurance Society ( Munkásbiztosító Pénztár ) started to build a homes for workmen in an unpopulated neighbourhood of Rákoskeresztúr.

In 1896 Professor Perkins donated the funds necessary to build the first of two observatories to bear his name.

By 1895, India had started building its own locomotives and in 1896 sent engineers and locomotives to help build the Uganda Railways.

The very first revolving stage in the western world was build by Karl Lautenschläger ( 1843 – 1906 ) in 1896 in Munich, Germany.

It was followed in 1863 by the line to Weiden, in 1877 by the railway to Schnabelwaid, in 1896 by the branch line to Warmensteinach, in 1904 by the branch to Hollfeld and in 1909 by the branch via Thurnau to Kulmbach, known as the Thurnauer Bockala ( which means something like " Thurnau Goat ").

The historic term light railway was used because it dated from the British Light Railways Act 1896, although the technology used in the DLR system was at the high end of what Americans considered to be light rail.

The main line of the Trans-Siberian railway, built in 1896, passes 50 km south of Tomsk and bypasses Tomsk.

The narrow gauge Government railway line reached Kalgoorlie in 1896, and the main named railway service from Perth was the overnight sleeper train The Westland which ran until the 1970s.

Having become Sirdar of the Egyptian Army in 1892-with the rank of brigadier-general and then major-general in the British Army — in 1896 he led his British and Egyptian forces up the Nile, building a railway to supply arms and reinforcements, and defeating the Sudanese at the Battle of Omdurman on 2 September 1898, near Khartoum.

The railway, although authorised in 1896 was opened only as far as Northam by 1901 and finally opened to Appledore in 1908.

Density of the railway net in Europe 1896

* Daniel Kinnear Clark ( 1822 – 1896 ), British railway mechanical engineer

With the opening of the railway link to Zürich in 1896, Herrliberg started to develop as part of the suburbs of Zürich.

Like most other municipalities along Lake Zürich, Küsnacht started to become a suburb of the city of Zürich with the development of the railway link in 1896.

James Henry Greathead ( 6 August 1844 – 21 October 1896 ) was an engineer renowned for his work on the London Underground railway.

In 1863 a corn exchange was built in the High Street owned by a company of local farmers and in 1896 the Gaymers cider-making plant was built on the south side of the railway and soon became established as the largest employer in the town.

On July 1, 1896 the Greifenberger Kleinbahn was opened, a narrow-gauge railway today used as a railway Museum.

In 1896 the level crossings around the station were replaced by a road bridge over the railway.

With the passing of the Light Railways Act 1896 a group of citizens of Tenterden, led by Sir Myles Fenton proposed a railway from Robertsbridge to Tenterden-the Rother Valley Railway.

A railway system formerly known as the North Borneo Railway was established in 1896 by the British North Borneo Company.

A railway line had reached Coolgardie ( from Perth ) by 1896.

The state government purchased the railway and the townsite in 1896 and later formally gazetted the town in 1898.

Blyth railway station, first built in 1847, was relocated in 1867 and rebuilt in 1896, to cope with the increase in goods and passenger traffic.

The arrival of the railway from Brighton in 1840 encouraged rapid development of the coastal area and in 1896 the southern part, known as Copperas Gap, was granted urban district status and renamed Portslade-by-Sea, making it distinct from Portslade Village.

In 1896, the Rodgaubahn ( railway ) from Offenbach am Main by way of Ober-Roden to Dieburg was built, as was the Dreieichbahn by way of Urberach to Sprendlingen in 1905.

In 1896 the construction of the railway between Beira and Bulawayo led to the town being moved a third time so that it was closer to the railway line-compensation was paid by the British South Africa Company to the townspeople for the cost of moving.