Melos, long marked as a source of early objects but not systematically excavated until taken in hand by the British School at Athens in 1896, yielded at Phylakope remains of all the Aegean periods, except the Neolithic.

The long jump has been part of modern Olympic competition since the inception of the Games in 1896.

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.

In 1896, responding to the humanitarian crisis in the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of the Hamidian Massacres, Barton sailed to Constantinople and after long negotiations with Abdul Hamid II, opened the first American International Red Cross headquarters in the heart of Turkey.

This policy had been endorsed in 1896 by the United States Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson, which held that as long as the separate facilities for the separate races were equal, segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment (" no State shall ... deny to any person ... the equal protection of the laws.

Melos, long marked as a source of early objects but not systematically excavated until taken in hand by the British School at Athens in 1896, yielded at Phylakope remains of all the Aegean periods, except the Neolithic.

In 1896, Richmond walked off the field in a match with South Melbourne at half time when they were a long way behind on a very wet day to protest the umpiring.

The farm has been active since 1896, and has a long and intriguing history that adds to the overall " farm " feel of West Newbury.

The third novel was a long, largely autobiographical work entitled The Martian, which was only published posthumously ( 1896 ).

He won the 1897 American all-around championship with performances that would have won him the 1896 Olympic high jump, long jump, and shot put, and probably the 100 m sprint and the 110 m hurdles as well.

Under then-controlling decisions of the United States Supreme Court ( e. g., Plessy v. Ferguson ( 1896 )), a state did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution by requiring racial segregation so long as the separate facilities were substantially equal.

Although he is listed in the Middletown town directory in 1896, it is not known how long he still resided there after he became a professional racer.

In an 1896 article, Wyatt Earp said that " Doc was a dentist, not a lawman or an assassin, whom necessity had made a gambler ; a gentleman whom disease had made a frontier vagabond ; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit ; a long lean ash-blond fellow nearly dead with consumption, and at the same time the most skillful gambler and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun that I ever knew.

The new system of districts did not last long, however, as one year later, on August 4, 1896 ( the 33rd year of King Gojong ), the former eight provinces were restored, with five of them ( Chungcheong, Gyeongsang, Jeolla, Hamgyŏng, and P ' yŏngan ), being divided into north and south halves, to form a total of 13 provinces.

The original Poe Lock was engineered by Orlando Poe and, at 800 feet long and 100 feet wide ( 244 x 30 m ), was the largest in the world when completed in 1896.

The original line was long and was built in three stages: Urskogbanen opened in 1896, running from Bingsfossen to Bjørkelangen ; Hølandsbanen from Bjørkelangen to Skulerud opened in 1898 and finally the line between Bingsfos and Sørumsand in 1903.

The Kiss was projected in West End Park, Ottawa, on July 21, 1896, and was long thought to be the first film publicly shown in Canada.

The controversies stirred by the Mormon religion's dominance of the territory is regarded as the primary reason behind the long delay of 46 years between the organization of the territory and its admission to the Union in 1896 as the State of Utah, long after the admission of territories created after it.

Leyland Motors has a long history dating from 1896, when the Sumner and Spurrier families founded the Lancashire Steam Motor Company in the town of Leyland in North West England.

His long list of honorary military posts included: honorary colonel of the 2nd London Corps from 24 September 1887, honorary colonel of the 5th Battalion, the Sherwood Foresters ( Derbyshire Regiment ) from 29 December 1888, honorary colonel of the 1st Newcastle upon Tyne ( Western Division ), Royal Artillery from 18 April 1894, honorary colonel of the Waterford Artillery ( Southern Division ) from 4 March 1896, colonel-commandant of the Royal Artillery from 7 October 1896, honorary colonel of the 3rd Battalion, the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment from 1 January 1898, honorary colonel of the City of London Imperial Volunteers from 10 March 1900, honorary colonel of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment from 5 September 1900, colonel of the Irish Guards from 17 October 1900, honorary colonel of the 2nd Hampshire ( Southern Division ), Royal Garrison Artillery from 15 August 1901, honorary colonel of the 3rd ( Dundee Highland ) Volunteer Battalion, the Black Watch ( Royal Highlanders ) from 19 September 1903, honorary colonel of the North Somerset Yeomanry from 1 April 1908, honorary colonel of the 6th Battalion, the City of London ( Rifles ') Regiment from 1 April 1908, honorary colonel of the 1st Wessex Brigade from 1 April 1908, honorary colonel of 6th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment from 1 April 1908, honorary colonel of The Waterford Royal Field Reserve Artillery from 2 August 1908 and honorary colonel of 1st ( Hull ) Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment from 11 November 1914 ( three days before his death ).

In 1896, the Iron Palace was bought by John Wanamaker and reopened as “ Wanamaker ’ s .” The Philadelphian Wanamaker, had long been an admirer of Stewart and stated that one of his best qualities was his “ personal attention to the details of the business ...

Hamid died suddenly at 11. 40am on 25 August 1896 and was almost certainly poisoned by his cousin Khalid bin Barghash who proclaimed himself the new sultan and held the position for three days before being replaced by the British government after the 40 minute long Anglo-Zanzibar War.

As a result, a stretch of 1280 km of East Coast Railway, covering the entire coastal stretch of Cuttack, Khurda Road, Puri, Palasa, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, Kakinada, Rajahmundry, Vijayawada, was opened for traffic between 1893 to 1896.

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.

* In 1896 Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo from Norway became the first people to ever row across the Atlantic Ocean.

Suffering from angina, Nobel died at home, of a cerebral haemorrhage in 1896.

* Rhodes ; James Ford History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896 Volume: 6.

Horch worked for Karl Benz from 1896, before founding A. Horch & Co. in November 1899, in Ehrenfeld, Cologne, Germany.

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.

In 1903, the South Africa tour followed on from the 1896 tour, with red and white hooped jerseys.

The idea of organizing a ' marathon race ' came from Michel Bréal, who wanted the event to feature in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens.

The notation travelled from France to Britain, where it became standard, although at least one journal did not change from using to until 1896.

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

The fifth and sixth pandemics raged from 1881 – 1896 and 1899-1923.

The administrative capital was moved from Obock in 1896.

The Eisenhower home served as the local meeting hall from 1896 to 1915, though Eisenhower never joined the International Bible Students.

He was the second son of five children born to David Longfield Beatty ( 1840 − 1904 ) and Katherine ( or Katrine ) Edith Sadleir ( 1840 − 1896 ), both from Ireland.

In France, the Lumière company sent cameramen all round the world from 1896 onwards to shoot films, which were exhibited locally by the cameramen, and then sent back to the company factory in Lyon to make prints for sale to whoever wanted them.

The first known of these was a film shot by a Lumière cameraman from the back platform of a train leaving Jerusalem in 1896, and by 1898 there were a number of films shot from moving trains.

He took up filmmaking in 1896, and after making imitations of other films from Edison, Lumière, and Robert Paul, he made Escamotage d ' un dame chez Robert-Houdin ( The Vanishing Lady ).

In Germany, Oskar Messter had been involved in film-making from 1896, but did not make a significant number of films per year till 1910.

The early days of the industry, from 1896 to 1902, saw the dominance of four firms: Pathé Frères, the Gaumont Film Company, the Georges Méliès company, and the Lumières.

At Gaumont, pioneer Alice Guy Blaché ( M. Gaumont's former secretary ) was made head of production and oversaw about 400 films, from her first, La Fée aux Choux, in 1896, through 1906.

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.