* 1967 – Léo-Paul Desrosiers, French Canadian journalist and novelist ( b. 1896 )

This regiment of dragoons was created in 1904 following the suggestion of a French military mission which undertook the reorganization of the Peruvian Army in 1896.

Modern cinema is generally regarded as descending from the work of the French Lumière brothers in 1895, and their show first came to London in 1896.

French philosopher Henri Bergson's Matter and Memory ( 1896 ) has been cited as anticipating the development of film theory during the birth of cinema.

* 1896 – André Breton, French poet ( d. 1966 )

* 1896 – Eugénie Blanchard, French supercentenarian ( d. 2010 )

* 1896 – Henri Longchambon, French politician ( d. 1969 )

* 1845 – Félix Tisserand, French astronomer ( d. 1896 )

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

Léon Theremin was born Lev Sergeyevich Termen in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire in 1896 into a family of French and German ancestry.

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.

In 1896 the French colonizers of Madagascar adopted the Merina capital as their center of colonial administration.

* 1822 – Edmond de Goncourt, French writer ( d. 1896 )

* 1948 – Antonin Artaud, French actor / director ( b. 1896 )

* 1896 – Julien Duvivier, French film director ( d. 1967 )

* 1896 – André Lévêque, French engineer ( d. 1930 )

It started in 1892 with the murder of the French administrator Laval and ended with the killing by the French of its leader in 1896.

* 1972 – Henry de Montherlant, French author ( b. 1896 )

* 1819 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist ( d. 1896 )

* 1896 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist ( b. 1819 )

* March 20 – Henri Longchambon, French politician ( b. 1896 )

* March 4 – Antonin Artaud, French playwright, actor and director ( b. 1896 )

* December 25 – Tristan Tzara, French poet ( b. 1896 )

* September 21 – Henry de Montherlant, French writer ( b. 1896 )

On his return he established a private medical practice and small laboratory in Berlin-Steglitz, and in 1891 received a call from Robert Koch to join the staff at his Berlin Institute of Infectious Diseases, where in 1896 a new institute was established for Ehrlich ’ s specialization, the Institute for Serum Research and Testing ( Institut für Serumforschung und Serumprüfung ), whose director he became.

Penn's educational innovations include: the nation's first medical school in 1765 ; the first university teaching hospital in 1874 ; the Wharton School, the world's first collegiate school of business, in 1881 ; the first American student union building, Houston Hall, in 1896 ; the country's second school of veterinary medicine ; and the home of ENIAC, the world's first electronic, large-scale, general-purpose digital computer in 1946.

In 1965 the California College of Medicine ( originally a school of osteopathy founded in 1896 and the oldest continuously operating medical college in the Southwest ) became part of UC Irvine.

They returned to London in February 1896, taking rooms at the Savoy Hotel while they sought medical treatment.

In 1900, after he had earlier ( 1896 ) persuaded his father to support nascent cancer research, Rockefeller money built a medical laboratory on the campus of Cornell Medical Center.

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.

He was one of the first to explore the medical applications of radiography, opening the first radiographic laboratory in the United Kingdom in 1896.

He received his medical doctoral degree from University of Strasbourg ( then part of Germany ) in 1896 where he also was a member of the fraternity Burschenschaft Germania Strassburg.

He was brother to Dr. Juan Bruno de Zayas y Alfonso ( 1867 – 1896 ), a medical doctor and revolutionary hero who died in the war for Cuba's independence, and of Dr. Francisco de Zayas y Alfonso ( 1857 – 1924 ), Cuba's long-time Minister to Paris and Brussels.

His published work on traditional medical uses of plants done by rural people in Bosnia ( 1896 ) has to be considered the first modern ethnobotanical work.

In 1896, his first year at Harvard, he started working in Bowditch's Lab, and in 1900 he received his medical degree.

Numerous documented cases of postmortem fetal extrusion were described in the medical compendium Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, first published in 1896.

Africa Inland Mission had its beginning in the work of Peter Cameron Scott ( 1867 – 1896 ), a Scottish-American missionary who served two years in the Congo before being forced to seek medical care in Britain in 1892 because of a near-fatal illness.

* Thomas James Smith ( 1827 – 1896 ), founder of Smith & Nephew, one of the United Kingdom's largest medical devices businesses

Several milestones in medical care and research have taken place at Geisel, including the first clinical X-ray ( 1896 ), the first intensive care unit in the United States ( 1955 ), and the Brattleboro rat ( 1961 ).

In October 1891 Crean commenced his medical studies at the Royal College of Surgeons and after graduating as a doctor in 1896, he became a Licentiate of both the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians.

Professor Rolf Maximilian Sievert ( 6 May 1896 – 3 October 1966 ) was a medical physicist whose major contribution was in the study of the biological effects of radiation.

From 1892 to 1896, he strived to convince the medical and general public, in a series of communications, conferences, booklets and demonstrations, that the use of the tuberculin of Robert Koch could provide the foundations for the prevention of bovine tuberculosis.

1896: The first radiograph used to assist in surgery is taken in Birmingham by the British pioneer of medical X-Rays, Major John Hall-Edwards thus kick-starting a whole new field of medical science.

The sale of residential lots after 1891 led to the rapid growth of what was then a suburb of Buenos Aires and, in 1896, Dr. Ignacio Pirovano opened an emergency hospital, today among the city's public medical facilities.

He became the hospital's medical superintendent In 1896 but resigned the following year.

Acacio Gabriel Viegas ( born 1856 — died 1933 ) was a medical practitioner who was credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Bombay, India in 1896.

* William Robert Cornish ( 1828 – 1896 ) was a British physician who served in India for more than thirty years and became the Surgeon-General — head of medical services — in the Madras Presidency.