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.

In 1896, they returned to Massachusetts and Keller entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admittance, in 1900, to Radcliffe College, where she lived in Briggs Hall, South House.

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.

She attended Oakland High School, where she was elected vice president of her senior class ; she graduated with exemplary grades in May 1896.

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, which she won in 1905.

After helping her husband with another unsuccessful parliamentary campaign, Pankhurst faced legal troubles in 1896 when she and two men violated a court order against ILP meetings at Boggart Hole Clough.

Daisy Ashford lived at Southdown House, 44 St Anne ’ s Crescent from 1889 to 1896 where she wrote The Young Visiters.

Several magazines of that time also used the " Dolly " spelling, such as The Knickerbocker, February 1837, p. 165. it should also be noted that numerous of the popular magazines of the 1860s-1890s preferred the " Dolly " spelling, and also noted that she was often called " Mistress Dolly ," including an essay from Munsey's Magazine in 1896.

As a delegate, she represented California in 1896 at both the Suffrage Convention in Washington, D. C. and the International Socialist and Labor Congress which was held in England.

About the origin of the town, she says, "... the Kansas City railroad was built from Kansas City to Port Arthur-and came right through here about 1896.

In 1896, she was invited to a ceremony at Invalides par Félix Faure at a visit of Emperor Nicholas II Russia and his wife Empress Alexandra.

Her literary output included popular books for adults ; with her sister, Nora A. Smith, she published scholarly work on the educational principles of Friedrich Froebel: Froebel's Gifts ( 1895 ), Froebel's Occupations ( 1896 ), and Kindergarten Principles and Practice ( 1896 ); and she wrote the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm ( 1903 ), as well as the 1905 best-seller Rose o ' the River.

For " Nine Love Songs and a Carol " ( 1896 ) she created all of the music.

" This friendship with Harriet continued throughout their lives, and she was still listed on the membership rolls of Plymouth Church when she died in 1896.

Valadon's 1896 marriage to stockbroker Paul Moussis ended in 1909 when she left him for painter André Utter, who was half her age ,.

According to Dressler's testimony, she married Hoeppert in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1899, although Kennedy puts the marriage date as May 6, 1894, and a divorce early in 1896.

Higuchi's literary career was cut short in 1896, when she contracted, and soon died of, tuberculosis.

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.

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 1896 England under the captaincy of W G Grace won the series 2 – 1, and this marked the end of England's longest period of Ashes dominance.

* 1896 – Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.

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.

One which appeared around 1896 under the name of Ludo was then successfully patented.

* 1896 – British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.

After a series of party reversals at the presidential level ( 1884, 1888, 1892, 1896 ), the result was that most federal jobs were under civil service.

Other notable Feydeau farces include L ' Hôtel du libre échange, Le Dindon ( Sauce for the Goose, 1896 ) and the series of plays he wrote after 1908 grouped under the title " Du Mariage au Divorce " (" On purge bébé ", " Feu la mère de madame ", Léonie est en avance " and " Mais ne te promène donc pas toute nue ").

The intellectual roots of Plessy v. Ferguson, the landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation in 1896 under the doctrine of " separate but equal " were, in part, tied to the scientific racism of the era.

In 1896, newlyweds Roy and Ada Goodnough leave Iowa and settle down in northeastern Colorado under the Homestead Act of 1862.

In 1896 a Privy Council report noted that there had been no prosecutions under the Foreign Enlistment Acts and considered them unenforceable.

It is dedicated to Paul Vidal, and had its first performance in January 1896, under the direction of the dedicatee.

Frukost under stora björken (" Breakfast under the big birch "), 1896

After 1797, under Napoleonic rule, it was made a duché grand-fief ( not a grand duchy, but a hereditary ( extinguished in 1896 ), nominal duchy, a rare honor reserved for French officials ) within Bonaparte's personal Kingdom of Italy for general Caulaincourt, also imperial Grand-Écuyer.

The City of Santa Fe was only incorporated as a town in 1896 under territorial laws.

In Opinion 1896 ( published in 1998 ) this type fixation was set aside and Buccinum truncatulum Müller, 1774 was fixed as type species under the plenary power ( s ) ( currently Galba truncatula ).

Plessy v. Ferguson ( 1896 ), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of " separate but equal.

It played its first concert under its current name on January 4, 1896 when Antonín Dvořák conducted his own compositions, but it did not become fully independent from the opera until 1901.

In 1896, needing more room for the museum, the collection was transferred to the Toronto Normal School ( or Ontario Provincial Museum ) under Boyle's care until his death in 1911.

In the eighteenth century the ecclesiastical authorities tried to give a less profane aspect to the composition, by engraving the name of David under the Apollo, and of Judith under the Minerva " ( Rodolfo Lanciani, Pagan and Christian Rome 1896, ch.

Around 1896 the first submerged oil wells in salt water were drilled in the portion of the Summerland field extending under the Santa Barbara Channel in California.

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 British Humanist Association took that name in 1967, but had developed from the Union of Ethical Societies which had been founded by Stanton Coit in 1896.

In April 1896, Thomas Armat's Vitascope, manufactured by the Edison factory and marketed in Edison's name, was used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City.

The name " Mud Hens " was first used in 1896, after the team was bought by Charles Strobel.

However, it was outshone by Puccini's opera of the same name and on the same subject, which was premiered in 1896.

Rueckheim introduced a confection of popcorn, peanuts and molasses that was given the name Cracker Jack in 1896

That part of the town of Watervliet is now in the town of Colonie ( since 1895 ), and the name Watervliet is now limited only to the city of Watervliet ( 1896 ).

The name " Gandolf " occurs as a character in William Morris ' 1896 fantasy novel The Well at the World's End.

His parents, Aimé Derrida ( 1896 – 1970 ) and Georgette Sultana Esther Safar ( 1901 – 1991 ), named him Jackie, after American actor Jackie Coogan, though he would later adopt a more " correct " version of his first name when he moved to Paris.

The first " adoptee " was Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria ( b. 1863, not descended from Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d ' Este ), who took the name Austria-Este and in 1896 became the heir presumptive of the Habsburg Empire, but was murdered on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo.

Mao Dun ( July 4, 1896 – March 27, 1981 ) was the pen name of Shen Dehong ( Shen Yanbing ), a 20th century Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and journalist.

Founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company, the brand name Parlophon was initially used for gramophones before the company began making records.

After they won the Southern League title in 1896 – 97, the club became a limited company and changed their name to Southampton F. C.

In 1896, the Dakhovsky Posad was renamed Sochi Posad ( after the name of local river ) and incorporated into the newly formed Black Sea Governorate.

On January 23, 1896, the General Assembly passed an Act officially changing the name of the Town of Jacksonville to the town of Floyd.

In 1896, the post office opened, and the name was changed to Gurleysville.

The Isabella post office, which had opened in 1896, operated at the new site until the name was changed to Lake Isabella in 1957.

Progress on developing a college was sporadic, but on July 30, 1896 the Whittier Academy, operating since 1891, officially changed its name to Whittier College with 100 students enrolled.

The Geneva post office opened in 1896, closed in 1897, re-opened in 1898, and changed its name to Planada in 1911.

The first post office was established in 1896 and was given the name Roth.

The name changed in 1896 because Southern Railway trains would stop on the way from Atlanta to Gainesville to get oak wood for their engines.

After several name changes, the Village of Hodgkins was incorporated in 1896.

In 1896, the name was sent to Washington, D. C., to allow a post office to be established.

In 1896 the name was changed to Hilton to honor Reverend Charles Augustus Hilton, a former pastor of the village's Freewill Baptist Church.