1896

This page lists news articles and events for the year 1896.

Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.

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Undated

• Event: Panic of 1896 - acute Economic Depression grips the United States for several months, lasting till after the discovery of Gold in the Yukon and the election of William McKinley.
• Event: Publication of The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer, an influential cookbook that attempted to standardize cooking measurements to create a common vocabulary of cooking.
• Event: Lt. James A. Moss leads his eight-man bicycle infantry corps on an 800-mile expedition to Yellowstone and back.
• Event: Pancho Villa kills the man who raped his sister, and takes the first steps on his path to becoming a social bandit.
• Event: The founding of the modern Olympic Games, including a commemorative Marathon.

January

February

March

• March 7:
  • Event: The Grand Duke; or The Statutory Duel, Gilbert and Sullivan's last opera, premiers at the Savoy Theatre in London.

April

May

June

July

August

• Event: Gold is discovered in the Yukon River Valley. The Klondike Gold Rush follows shortly thereafter.

September

October

• October 26
  • Event: Charles Fort gets married.

November

• November 3
  • Event: William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryant to become US President. The campaign is considered by historians to be one of the most dramatic and complex in American history.

December