From 1846 onwards the establishments in the United Kingdom were gradually reduced, while the last vestige of the British quarantine law was removed by the Public Health Act 1896, which repealed the Quarantine Act 1825 ( with dependent clauses of other acts ), and transferred from the privy council to the Local Government Board the powers to deal with ships arriving infected with yellow fever or plague, the powers to deal with cholera ships having been already transferred by the Public Health Act 1875.

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.

The reserve power of dismissal has never been used in Canada, although other reserve powers have been used to force the prime minister to resign on two occasions: The first took place in 1896, when the prime minister, Sir Charles Tupper, refused to step down after his party did not win a majority of the House of Commons seats in the 1896 election, leading the governor general, the Earl of Aberdeen, to no longer recognize Tupper as prime minister and disapprove of several appointments Tupper had recommended.

The Devon and Cornwall Stannary Courts were merged following the Stannaries Act 1855, but their powers were later transferred to county authorities by the Stannaries Court ( Abolition ) Act 1896.

* The First Italo-Abyssinian War of 1895 – 1896 resulted in a victory for the Ethiopians and internation recognition of their empire by the great powers of the time.

* Villa Falconieri, the story of a successful poet who lost confidence in his powers ( 1896 )

The North Wales and Liverpool Railway opened for passengers on 18 May 1896, but powers to extend the service from Bidston to the more appealing destination of Seacombe were not granted until 1898.

Klement Gottwald ( 23 November 1896 – 14 March 1953 ) was a Czechoslovakian Communist politician, longtime leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( KSČ or CPCz or CPC ), prime minister and president of Czechoslovakia.

During Itō's second term as prime minister ( August 8, 1892 – August 31, 1896 ), he supported the First Sino-Japanese War and negotiated the Treaty of Shimonoseki in March 1895 with his ailing foreign minister Mutsu Munemitsu.

McKenna acknowledged the strength of the Liberal brand stating: " You ’ ve got pretty good odds of being the prime minister if you're leader of the Liberal party "-every leader of the Liberal party since Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1896 had become prime minister.

Matsukata followed Yamagata Aritomo as Prime Minister from 6 May 1891 – 8 August 1892, and followed Ito Hirobumi as Prime Minister from 18 September 1896 – 12 January 1898, during which times he concurrently also held office as finance minister.

In his position as resident minister in Korea, he negotiated the Komura-Weber Memorandum in May 1896 with his Russian counterpart Karl Ivanovich Weber, allowing joint interference into Korean internal affairs by the Empire of Japan and the Empire of Russia.

For purposes of diplomatic missions to Western Europe and Russia, Li Hongzhang ( Zhongtang being a term of respect for a vizier or prime minister ) employed in 1896 political lyrics combined with classical Chinese music — later known as " The Tune of Li Zhongtang " ( 李中堂樂 ).

Parliament was dissolved on April 24, 1896, and, as per the agreement that Tupper would become Prime Minister following the election call, he became prime minister on May 1, 1896, thus forming the 7th Canadian Ministry.

The 1896 election was won by Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals, and while Macdonald was again elected for Winnipeg City ( narrowly defeating former provincial minister Joseph Martin ), his election was declared void in early 1897.

Mary Ford was born Iris Colleen Summers in El Monte, California, the second daughter of Marshall McKinley Summers ( born February 13, 1896 in Ridgway, Illinois ; died August 5, 1981 in Los Angeles, California ), a Nazarene minister, who later became a painting contractor, and his wife, Dorothy May White Summers ( born April 5, 1897 in Missouri ; died February 22, 1988 in South El Monte, California ), and was the sister of Byron Fletcher Summers ( born December 25, 1918 in Missouri ; died April 2, 1994 ), Esther Eva Summers Wootten ( born 1922 in Los Angeles, California ), and Bruce Wendell Summers ( born February 22, 1929 in California ; died November 15, 2007 ).

William Stevens Fielding, PC ( November 24, 1848 – June 23, 1929 ) was a Canadian Liberal politician, the seventh Premier of Nova Scotia ( 1884 – 96 ), and the federal finance minister 1896 – 1911 and 1921 – 25.

After leading his party to a major electoral victory in 1895, Blair left provincial politics in 1896 when he was appointed minister of railways and canals in the federal Cabinet of Liberal Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier.

When the Liberals formed government after the 1896 election under Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Davies became minister of marine and fisheries.

Buller was a government minister from 1896 to 1899.

In 1896, MacDonald was appointed British minister to China.

He was the son of the Unitarian minister and abolitionist William Henry Furness ( 1802 – 1896 ), and brother of the architect Frank Furness ( 1839 – 1912 ).

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.

Some early ' skyscrapers ' were made in masonry, and demonstrated the limitations of the material – for example, the Monadnock Building in Chicago ( opened in 1896 ) is masonry and just 17 stories high ; the ground walls are almost thick, clearly building any higher would lead to excessive loss of internal floor space on the lower floors.

By late February 1896, supplies on both sides were running low.

After 1896 the system was changed to one on which a motor car was added to each train to maneuver at the terminals, while en route, the trains were still propelled by the cable.

Other cable car systems were implemented in Europe, though, among which was the Glasgow District Subway, the first underground cable car system, in 1896.

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.

At Tsuro, Shikoku, 201 were taken between 1849 and 1896.

The first Summer Olympics organized by the International Olympic Committee were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896 ; the first Winter Olympics were in Chamonix, France, in 1924.

Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.

In 1890, new standing areas were constructed along the entire length of the ground, with additional stands erected in 1896.

Between 1894 – 96, the players wore distinctive green and gold jerseys which were replaced in 1896 by white shirts, which were worn with blue shorts.

Hundreds of open clusters were listed in the New General Catalogue, first published in 1888 by the Danish-Irish astronomer J. L. E. Dreyer, and the two supplemental Index Catalogues, published in 1896 and 1905.

Extending these deep ideas of Riemann, two proofs of the asymptotic law of the distribution of prime numbers were obtained independently by Jacques Hadamard and Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin and appeared in the same year ( 1896 ).

The city's boundaries were also significantly extended to take in former suburban villages: Piotrowo and Berdychowo in 1896, Łazarz, Górczyn, Jeżyce and Wilda in 1900, and Sołacz in 1907.

The American brothers Lorenzo Niles Fowler ( 1811 – 1896 ) and Orson Squire Fowler ( 1809 – 1887 ) were leading phrenologists of their time.

He also took the lead in planning the program of events, although to his disappointment neither polo, football, or boxing were included in 1896.

Although rowing's roots as a sport in the modern Olympics can be traced back to the original 1896 games in Athens, it was not until the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal that women were allowed to participate — well after their fellow athletes in similar sports such as swimming, athletics, cycling, and canoeing.

It was not until the 19th century, in 1896, that the Olympics were held again.