The Green Bay and Western Railroad was formed in 1896 from the bankruptcy proceedings of the Green Bay, Winona & St Paul and the Kewaunee, Green Bay and Western.

After bankruptcy the Frisco emerged as the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, incorporated on June 29, 1896, which also went bankrupt.

When Hays became General Manager of GTR in 1896, it was near bankruptcy and under-performing its rival, the Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ).

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

From 1896 until 1910 John H. Whipple was manager of Western Union at the Center in the drugstore he purchased from Clark Wait.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

Schweitzer saw many operas of Richard Wagner at Straßburg ( under Otto Lohse ), and in 1896 he pulled together the funds to visit Bayreuth to see Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal, and was deeply affected.

In 1867 gas street lighting was implemented, the University of Adelaide was founded in 1874, the South Australian Art Gallery opened in 1881 and the Happy Valley Reservoir opened in 1896.

Allowing himself to be involved in the ecclesiastical disputes that divided Hungary in 1895, he was made the subject of formal complaint by the Hungarian government and in 1896 was recalled.

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

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, 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.

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.

Brigitte Bardot was born in Paris to Anne-Marie ' Toty ' Mucel ( 1912 – 1978 ) and Louis ' Pilou ' Bardot ( 1896 – 1975 ).

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.

At the 1896 event, silver was awarded to winners and bronze to runners-up, while at 1900 other prizes were given, not medals.

In 1896, Theodor Herzl, a Jewish journalist living in Austria-Hungary, published Der Judenstaat (" The Jewish State "), in which he asserted that the only solution to the " Jewish Question " in Europe, including growing antisemitism, was through the establishment of a Jewish State.

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.

The University now operates under a 1787 charter that places the institution under a private board of trustees, and in 1896 it was further renamed Columbia University.

Similarly, the shortest war in recorded history, the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896, was brought to a swift conclusion by shelling from British battleships.

With the Gabo reform of 1896, the class system of Korea was officially abolished.

* 1896 A 7 year old Charlie Chaplin spent a day playing in the park after his mother discharged the family from the Lambeth Workhouse in desperation to see her children.

He was honorably discharged October 25, 1896, with a rank of apprentice, first class.

By 1896, it was clear that more money could be made by showing motion picture films with a projector to a large audience than exhibiting them in peep-show machines.

By 1896 the new movie projector required a fully transparent film base that Blair's American operation could not supply.

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.

As early as 1896, Nikola Tesla suggested that radio could be used to contact extraterrestrial life.

However, in Plessy v. Ferguson ( 1896 ), the Supreme Court held that the states could impose segregation so long as they provided similar facilities — the formation of the “ separate but equal ” doctrine.

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.

Wherever " decadence " had taken hold, there he could be found. Aubrey Beardsley: " The Death of Pierrot ", The Savoy ( periodical ) | The Savoy, August 1896. Paul Hoecker: Pierrots with Pipes, c. 1900.

In 1896 the Englishman Thomas Hyler White developed a design for a car that could be assembled at home and technical designs were published in a magazine called The English Mechanic.

Mikimoto had received a patent in 1896 for producing hemispherical pearls, or mabes, and a 1908 patent for culturing in mantle tissue, but he could not use the Mise-Nishikawa method without invalidating his own patents.

Milton built a milk-processing plant in the year 1896, so he could create and refine a recipe for milk chocolate candies.

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

In 1896 his bust was unveiled in Westminster Abbey alongside that of his son, Matthew and the Times asserted that " As much as any who could be named, Arnold helped to form the standard of manly worth by which Englishmen judge and submit to be judged ".

An 1896 article from Onondaga's Centennial by Dwight H. Bruce describes the area as " a densely wooded wilderness, frequented by Indians and inhabited by bears, wolves and other beasts of the forest and could not have presented an appearance other than of gloomy waste.

Brachytherapy dates back to 1901 ( shortly after the discovery of radioactivity by Becquerel in 1896 ) when Pierre Curie suggested to Henri-Alexandre Danlos that a radioactive source could be inserted into a tumour.

The 1896 charter specifically stated that the college could accept anyone, regardless of whether they intended to take Holy Orders and, since 1925, it had been possible to study for a BA at the college without studying any theology at all.

It was hoped that Parker could be acceptable to both factions since he was " sound " on economic issues, but had supported Bryan in 1896 as a good party man.

Before statehood could be granted in 1896, however, the federal government required Utah to include a provision in its state constitution stating that " polygamous or plural marriages are forever prohibited ".

From the 1896 to the 1960s, the Catholic clergy tried to control what movies Quebecers could see.

In 1896 he also founded the National-Social Association, in an attempt to provide a social liberal alternative to the Social Democrats, that could address the growing social rift between rich industrialists and the poor working class.

* Dr José Rizal ( 1861 – 1896 ), a Filipino national hero, optometrist, artist, author, and scientist who could speak 22 languages.

As a strong believer in the gold standard, freedom of contract, and property rights, he could not abide the candidacy of William Jennings Bryan and supported the National Democratic Party ( Gold Democrats ) third ticket in 1896.

This was apparently a bit of a compromise: After the successful games of Athens 1896 the Greeks suggested they could organise the games every four years.

The first fire police officers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania were appointed in Meadville, Crawford County in 1896 and until the passage of title 35 in 1941, had no greater authority than that which could be provided by their respective fire company and municipality.

The Queen had had the property as long as she had wanted, just as the Prince of Wales had said she could when she was given it in 1896.