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.

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

In 1896 Armand Peugeot broke away from Les Fils de Peugeot Frères to form his own company, Société Anonyme des Automobiles Peugeot, building a new factory at Audincourt to focus entirely on cars.

In October 1896, the cabal of six strong clubs broke with the association to form the VFL and invited two other clubs to join them: Carlton and St Kilda.

On May 9, 1896, fire broke out in the large sawmill of the L ' Anse Lumber Company.

The Dungan revolt ( 1895 – 1896 ) broke out in Qinghai in 1895.

* Melchora Aquino – was a Filipina revolutionary who became known as Tandang Sora because of her age when the 1896 Philippine Revolution broke out ( she was already 84 ).

After the 1896 season, eight of the thirteen clubs broke away to form the Victorian Football League ( VFL ): Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne.

Melchora Aquino de Ramos ( January 6, 1812 – March 2, 1919 ) was a Filipina revolutionary who became known as " Tandang Sora " in the history of the Philippines because of her age when the Philippine Revolution broke out in 1896 ( she was already 84 at the time ).

The Empress held a hard line against the Italians, and when talks eventually broke down, and Italy invaded the Empire from its Eritrean colony, she marched north with the Emperor and the Imperial Army, commanding a force of cannoneers at the historic Battle of Adwa which resulted in a humiliating defeat for Italy in March, 1896.

Nevertheless, the humiliating defeat of the Italian army at Adwa in March 1896 in Ethiopia during First Italo-Ethiopian War, brought about his resignation after riots broke out in several Italian towns.

In 1896, he broke party lines by opposing the Free Silver Movement led by Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan and, like many Bourbon Democrats, supported the National Democratic candidate John McAuley Palmer who supported the traditional gold standard, limited government and opposed protectionism.

This organization then changed, in 1890, into the Solidarity and Assistance Pact, which was itself dissolved in 1896 because of repressive legislation against anarchism and broke into many nuclei and autonomous workers ' societies ....

As well in 1896, a Duryea motorcar had the unfortunate distinction of being in the world's first automobile accident, in New York City, when its driver struck a bicyclist and broke his leg.

In 1896, law and order again broke down in Crete and a final Christian insurrection against Ottoman rule took place.

By 1896, Sverdrup, Oftedal and others felt their beliefs of a " free church in a free land " were being compromised and broke away from the UNLC, forming the Lutheran Free Church in 1897.

In 1895 his health broke down ; he resigned his seat in Parliament on 24 April 1896 by taking the Chiltern Hundreds.

In late 1896 a rebellion broke out on Crete, and on January 21, 1897 a Greek army landed in Crete to liberate the island from the Ottoman Empire and unite it with Greece.

Selous returned to England, married, and in 1896 the couple settled on an estate in Essexvale, Matabeleland, when the Second Matabele War broke out.

When in 1896 disturbances broke out in the universities Nicholas II was grateful for his prompt action and that of the authorities that quickly restored order.

In 1896, Godkin broke with the Democratic party after it nominated William Jennings Bryan.

After the final match in England, Trott and his players broke an agreement to return home in time for the 1896 – 97 Australian season.

In 1896, Baloo chose to move to Bombay with his family – at least partly because of the severe plague which broke out in the region, but also because of the greater opportunities for cricket in the larger city.

When the Philippine Revolution broke out in 1896, the town joined the cause of the revolutionaries led by Tomas Fiedacan.

When the revolution broke out in 1896, some Filipinos from Calinog, Dumalag, and Tapaz fled to the aforementioned places.

When the Philippine Revolution broke out on Luzon in 1896, it did not spread immediately to Iloilo.