1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Great Lakes region
Farther east, wind gusts exceeded 60 mph (100 km/h) at New York City, bringing down overhead wires. A switchboard at a telephone exchange in Brooklyn sparked a fire that caused $30,000 (equivalent to $0.9 million in 2019) in damage. Several steamships limped into port at New York with significant damage. From New Jersey to Long Island, trees, fences, chimneys, windows, and political campaign signs fell victim to the storm. On the Hudson River at Newburgh, in the early morning hours on September 30, a tugboat collided with a passenger vessel, injuring two crew members of the former craft. "Considerable" wind damage extended north through the Hudson Valley, and trains along the West Shore Railroad were delayed by landslides and washouts. Total property damage in New York was assessed at $50,000 (equivalent to $1.5 million in 2019).


1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Great Lakes region
Heavy rainfall doused parts of Ohio for four days beginning on September 27. Resulting floods damaged crops and property, and the inclement weather disrupted William McKinley's presidential campaign activities at his home in Canton.


1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Great Lakes region
On September 30, gales from the former hurricane swept across the Great Lakes. Hundreds of spectators lined the shores of Lake Michigan at Chicago, Illinois, to watch the enormous waves. A schooner was torn from its moorings at Chicago, and crashed into nearly a dozen smaller vessels while being blown about. The schooner Belle from Racine, Wisconsin, went missing amid the storm, while the barge Sumatra broke up and capsized near Milwaukee, taking the lives of four crew members; the captain, first mate, and cook were safely rescued. The storm damaged around $75,000 worth of property on the Great Lakes (equivalent to $2.3 million in 2019).


1896 Centenary Gentlemen football team
The 1896 Centenary Gentlemen football team was an American football team that represented the Centenary College of Louisiana as an independent during the 1896 college football season. In their third year while located at the Jackson, Louisiana campus, the team compiled a 1–1 record.


1896 Central Michigan Normalites football team
The 1896 Central Michigan Normalites football team represented Central Michigan Normal School, later renamed Central Michigan University, as an independent during the 1896 college football season. Central Michigan was founded in 1892 and fielded its first varsity football team in 1896. Under head coach Pete McCormick, the first Central Michigan football team compiled a 3–1 record and outscored their four opponents by a combined total of 62 to 22. All four games were played against high school teams. On October 31, 1896, the Central Michigan football team lost to Alma High School, 14–5, in a game played in Mount Pleasant. On November 21, 1896, Central Michigan defeated Bay City High School by a 14–4 score at Mt. Pleasant.


1896 Centre football team
The 1896 Centre football team represented Centre College in the 1896 college football season. Centre finished the season 6–0–1 and outscored their opponents 184–18.


1896 Championship of Australia
The 1896 Championship of Australia was an Australian rules football match that took place on 12 June 1897.


1896 Championship of Australia
The championship was contested by the premiers of the VFL, Collingwood and the premiers of the SAFL, South Adelaide.


1896 Championship of Australia
The match was played at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide, South Australia.


1896 Championship of Australia
This was the last Championship of Australia match to be held until 1907.


1896 Chicago Colts season
The 1896 Chicago Colts season was the 25th season of the Chicago Colts franchise, the 21st in the National League and the 4th at West Side Park. The Colts finished fifth in the National League with a record of 71–57.


1896 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1896 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1896 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1896 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1896 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1896 Chicago Maroons football team
The 1896 Chicago Maroons football team was an American football team that represented the University of Chicago during the 1896 Western Conference football season. In their fifth season under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the Maroons compiled a 15–2–1 record, finished in fourth place in the Western Conference with a 3–2 record against conference opponents, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 368 to 82.


1896 Chicago Physicians and Surgeons football team
The 1896 Chicago Physicians and Surgeons football team was an American football team that represented the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago in the 1896 college football season. The doctors compiled a 2–4–2 record, and were outscored by their opponents 84 to 56. In a game proclaimed to be the "Western medical school football championship", Chicago P&S forfeited the contest in the 2nd half, because of their refusal to play after a disputed Rush Medical touchdown.


1896 Chicago vs. Iowa men's basketball game
The 1896 Chicago vs. Iowa men's basketball game was the first five-on-five college basketball game played in United States history. Although the sport had been first played in 1892, seven to nine players had been used on a side. At the urging of the University of Chicago's head football coach, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Chicago's men's club team traveled to Iowa City, Iowa, to play the University of Iowa on January 18, 1896, in an experimental game. The match was played in Close Hall, and due to seating capacity constraints, only approximately 500 people were able to watch.


1896 Chicago vs. Iowa men's basketball game
Iowa physical education teacher Dr. Henry F. Kallenberg reduced the teams to five players on a side, and the modern version of basketball was born. Kallenberg came to Iowa from Springfield College, where he was a classmate of Dr. James Naismith. Chicago won, 15–12, to secure modern college basketball's first-ever win.


1896 Chilean presidential election
The Chilean presidential election of 1896 took place through a system of electors, and resulted in the election as President of Federico Errázuriz Echaurren. The election was marred by controversy, and there had to be a confirmation in Congress to satisfy Errázuriz's opponents.


1896 Chilean presidential election, Campaign
For this campaign the political forces organized themselves in two big alliances: Liberal-Conservative Coalition, whose candidate was Federico Errázuriz Echaurren, and the Liberal Alliance, whose candidate was the Senator for Santiago Vicente Reyes Palazuelos.


1896 Chilean presidential election, Campaign
The campaign itself was furious and fairly even. Reyes was a member of the Doctrinary Liberal party and boasted of being a "free-thinker". On the other hand, Errázuriz was very popular with the conservatives and belonged to a well-known political family of impeccable catholic credentials. The economic issues also came to the fore: Reyes and his followers were in favor of going back to the metallic conversion, while Errázuriz (whose voting base was heavily influenced by the large land-owners and agricultural producers) was in favor of a variable conversion system that could keep the exchange rate favorable for their exports.


1896 Chilean presidential election, Campaign
After a very close vote, in which the decision Errázuriz won, the Liberal Alliance refused to recognize the result. The decision was moved to the full congress, where finally Errázuriz prevailed by only two votes.


1896 Cincinnati Reds season
The 1896 Cincinnati Reds season was a season in American baseball. The team finished in third place in the National League with a record of 77–50, 12 games behind the Baltimore Orioles.


1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season
After a late season collapse by the Reds in 1895, in which the team won only fourteen of their last thirty-nine games to fall completely out of the pennant race to an eighth-place finish, the club began to make changes to get younger players.


1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season
Buck Ewing returned as player-manager, and the team made a big trade, as Arlie Latham, Ed McFarland, Morgan Murphy and Tom Parrott were traded from Cincinnati to the St. Louis Browns for Red Ehret and Heinie Peitz. Ehret struggled in 1895, with a 6–19 record and a 6.02 ERA. His best season came in 1890 with the Louisville Colonels of the American Association, when Ehret was 25–14 with a 2.53 ERA in 43 games. Ehret also led the National League in shutouts with four during the 1893 season with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Peitz hit .284 with two home runs and 65 RBI with the Browns in 1895.


1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season
The Reds also acquired Charlie Irwin from the Chicago Colts to play third base. Irwin missed most of the 1895 season, but in 1894 he batted .296 with eight home runs and 100 RBI with Chicago.


1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season
Offensively, Eddie Burke led the team with a .340 batting average and 120 runs scored, as well as hitting a homer and 52 RBI. Dummy Hoy also scored 120 runs, as he hit .298 with a team tying high four home runs and 57 RBI. Dusty Miller had a club high .321 average, 93 RBI and 76 stolen bases, as well as tying Hoy with four home runs. Bid McPhee had another solid season, as he hit .305 with a homer and 87 RBI while stealing 48 bases.


1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season
Frank Dwyer led the pitching staff with a 24–11 record and a 3.15 ERA in 36 games, 34 of them starts. Ehret went 18–14 with a 3.42 ERA in his first season with the Reds, which marked a big improvement over his horrible 1895 season with the Browns. Billy Rhines led the league with a 2.45 ERA, however, he missed some time due to injuries and finished the year with a record of 8–6 in 19 games.


1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary
After starting the year with a 9–7 record and in fifth place, Cincinnati posted ten wins in their next twelve games to improve to 19–9, and sit in first place in the National League. The Reds slipped out of first place with a 3–5 record in their next eight games, and continued to slump to a 27–20 record, fourth in the league. Cincinnati then rebounded, going 14–2 in their next sixteen games to push their record to 41–22, and be in a first place tie with the Baltimore Orioles.


1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary
The club stayed hot, going 12–2 in their next fourteen games to push their record to 53–24, and take over first place by themselves, three games up on the Orioles. Cincinnati then went 8–2 in their next ten games, and pushed their first place lead to five games over Baltimore, and a 34–6 record in their last forty games. Despite a solid 8–5 record in their next thirteen games, Cincinnati saw their five-game lead evaporate to only a half game over the red hot Orioles. As the season was coming to a close, the Reds completely fell out of the pennant race, as they lost eleven games in a row and would eventually finish in third place with a 77–50 record, 12.5 games behind Baltimore.


1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1896 Cincinnati football team
The 1896 Cincinnati football team was an American football team that represented the University of Cincinnati as an independent during the 1896 college football season. In their first season under head coach William A. Reynolds, the Bearcats compiled a 4–3–1 record. The team played its home games at Union Ball Park in Cincinnati.


1896 City of Christchurch by-election
The City of Christchurch by-election of 1896 was a by-election held on 13 February 1896 during the 12th New Zealand Parliament in the urban seat of the City of Christchurch. The by-election was triggered by the appointment of William Pember Reeves as Agent-General to the United Kingdom. The Liberal Government led by Richard Seddon had trouble finding a suitable candidate and delayed Reeves' resignation until the day he left his home in Christchurch to take up the London post. Nonetheless, rumours of Reeves' pending resignation had been circulating for a month and candidates were lining up.


1896 City of Christchurch by-election
The Liberal Party candidate who was secured resigned within a week of Reeves' eventual resignation, and a new candidate had to be found. Three candidates contested the election: Richard Molesworth Taylor was the official Liberal Party candidate, Tommy Taylor was a prohibitionist also with liberal views but an ardent opponent of Seddon, and Charles Lewis was the reluctant conservative candidate of the opposition. Being a Liberal Party stronghold, vote splitting between those candidates who held liberal views secured the election win for Lewis, with the Liberal Party candidate coming last.


1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Background
William Pember Reeves was a lawyer and prominent journalist in Christchurch. He was first elected to the House of Representatives in the 1887 election for the St Albans electorate, and transferred to the City of Christchurch electorate when it was recreated for the 1890 election. Reeves was a cabinet minister in the Liberal Government, but had an uneasy relationship with the premier, Richard Seddon, and was blocked by Seddon from implementing labour reforms.


1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Background
Reeves was offered the position of Agent-General, which he accepted; this was an influential position and when the post became that of a high commissioner ten years later, the salary exceeded that of the prime minister. But nonetheless, Seddon was determined to remove Reeves from his cabinet, and this was a convenient way of achieving this. Rumours about Reeves' pending change of career started to circulate in early December 1895, but the official announcement was left until 6 January 1896, with Reeves leaving Lyttelton for Wellington later that evening, and from Wellington for London only four days later. The Governor, The Earl of Glasgow, received Reeves' resignation from the Christchurch electorate when he reached Lyttelton on 13 January.


1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Background
The local Christchurch newspaper, The Press, commented on Reeves' immediate departure after the official announcement in the following way:


1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Background
For months after they had decided to appoint Mr. Reeves Agent-General, they kept the matter stringing on because they could not find a candidate to their liking to take his place. When at last they made up their minds, they had driven it so late that Mr. Reeves's departure savoured more of flight or an elopement than the dignified farewell of a Minister of the Crown going Home to represent the colony in London.


1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, John Lee Scott
John Lee Scott (1848–1913) was a prominent engineer and businessman, and ran Scott Bros. with his brother George. He had been on the Sydenham Borough Council, and in 1887 he was a member of Christchurch City Council. Scott stood in the 1886 Sydenham by-election and came second to Richard Molesworth Taylor.


1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, John Lee Scott
On the evening of 3 January, i.e. before the official announcement of Reeves' appointment had been made, he received a large deputation, and Scott informed them that he had already checked with his brother by telegram whether he would consent him leaving the business for parliamentary work. While the deputation was still with him, his brother's positive reply arrived and Scott thus consented to become a candidate. Scott was Seddon's preferred candidate for the Liberal Party, as he was also a prohibitionist and would thus draw votes from Tommy Taylor, whom Seddon tried to keep out of Parliament.


1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, John Lee Scott
Scott withdrew from the election on 14 January, as it had transpired that his brother and business partner had to be overseas for much of the year, and he had thus to remain in Christchurch to look after their commercial interests. The conservative The Press commented:


1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, John Lee Scott
But for Mr. Scott's retirement, the writ would have been issued yesterday. Now we suppose the Government will keep the matter dilly-dallying for an indefinite time while they fish round for another candidate. We say that this is treating the electors of Christchurch with scant consideration or respect.


1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, John Lee Scott
The other Christchurch newspaper, The Star, itself a supporter of the Liberal Government, strongly disagreed with this stance and argued that it was only natural for the Liberal Party to find another candidate before issuing the writ.


1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, Tommy Taylor
Tommy Taylor (1862–1911) was the first candidate to officially announce his candidacy by advertisement on 7 January. Taylor had started training as a Methodist minister but discontinued when he was found to be "too unorthodox and argumentative". As a prohibitionist, he had a national profile, and he had great popular appeal. The Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act, 1893 was seen as a cynical attempt by Richard Seddon's—himself a former publican—to appeal to the masses, and it turned Taylor into an opponent of Seddon. Taylor's political beliefs were otherwise in line with the Liberal Party.


1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, Charles Lewis
Charles Lewis (1857–1927) announced his candidacy on 8 January by advertisement for the conservative opposition. Lewis was born in Christchurch and received his education in Christchurch and England. Upon his return, he was employed as a farmer until he inherited his father's farm in Halswell. He was a member of various local bodies, most importantly the Halswell Road Board. Lewis was asked to stand in rural Canterbury electorates in 1890 and 1893, but he refused; partially because of a weak constitution of his health.


1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, Charles Lewis
Lewis was on the committee of the National Association (i.e. the opposition) and was part of a small majority that decided that this by-election should be contested by conservative interests. Together with two others, he was tasked with finding a suitable candidate, and it was him who informed the print media that a conservative candidate would stand. No candidate being found, Lewis saved the situation by consenting to become the candidate himself. Lewis was practically unknown in the City of Christchurch electorate prior to the by-election.


1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, Charles Lewis
As the Lyttelton Times reported, the conservatives were hoping that vote splitting would occur between the two candidates with liberal views, and although Christchurch was a liberal stronghold, this was their only chance of getting a conservative candidate elected.


1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, Richard Molesworth Taylor
On the same day as Lewis (8 January), Richard Molesworth Taylor (1835–1919) confirmed his candidacy by advertisement in the interest of the Liberal Party, although he was not their official candidate. Taylor came to New Zealand as a child from England, and spent his late teens and early twenties at the Victorian and New South Wales gold rushes. He had a brief involvement in the New Zealand Wars, before becoming a contractor in Auckland and then in Christchurch. He was first elected to the House of Representatives in the 1886 Sydenham by-election and represented Sydenham until 1890, and the City of Christchurch electorate until his defeat at the 1893 election when he refused to align with Richard Seddon.


1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Run up to the election
The governor received Reeves' resignation from his ministerial posts and his electorate upon his arrival in Lyttelton on 13 January, but the following day, Scott resigned from the campaign. On 16 January, the Seddon Ministry gazetted Reeves' resignation from his ministerial posts, but not his resignation from the City of Christchurch electorate. On 23 January, Liberal Party organisers met and confirmed Richard Molesworth Taylor as the official government candidate. The following day, Reeves' resignation was finally gazetted. The writ was issued on 31 January and the election advertised by the returning officer, John Whitelaw, on 3 February.


1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Run up to the election
The nomination date was set for 5 February, and the election date set for Thursday, 13 February. Polling was from 9am to 7pm, and 11 polling booths were provided throughout the central city, Waltham, Phillipstown, Richmond, Sydenham, Addington, Edgeware (then called Knightstown), and St Albans. Three ministers of the crown travelled from Wellington to Christchurch to support Richard Molesworth Taylor; The Press commented that this had never happened before.


1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Results
The election proceeded in an orderly manner, unlike many other Christchurch elections at the time. The contest was an open one; any of the three candidates was regarded as being able to win. Lewis won the election, and Tommy Taylor came second. The Press commented that this was a "crushing defeat" for the government, as Lewis was a member of the opposition, and Tommy Taylor was one of the "most uncompromising opponents of the Premier".


1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Results
Lewis was confirmed by the voters in the 1896 and 1899 general elections, but he found the parliamentary work demanding to his health. At the time, sessions regularly extended into the evening or the early morning, sometimes even all night. He missed the last week of the session in 1900 due to exhaustion. When he called a meeting in Christchurch in June 1901 that was poorly attended—The Press argued that people were focussed on the upcoming royal visit instead—he felt unsupported by the constituency and resigned later that week. Subsequently, Lewis served two more terms (1902–1908) in the rural constituency of Courtenay.


1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Results
Tommy Taylor stood in the City of Christchurch electorate at the December 1896 general election and out of 11 candidates, he came third in the three-member electorate, and began a colourful and successful political career. Taylor was extremely popular and elected Mayor of Christchurch in April 1911. When he suddenly died only three months later aged 49, 50,000 people lined the streets for his funeral procession; the largest funeral that the city has ever seen.


1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Results
Richard Molesworth Taylor also stood in the City of Christchurch electorate at the 1896 general election later in the year. He came tenth, securing less than 4% of the votes. It was the last time that he stood for election.


1896 Clemson Tigers football team
The 1896 Clemson Tigers football team represented Clemson Agricultural College in the 1896 college football season. Professor Walter Riggs brought the game to Clemson from his alma mater, Auburn, where he was a member of Auburn's first football team. The Tigers completed their first season with a record of 2–1, with wins over upstate neighboring colleges Furman and Wofford, and a loss in the first installment of the rivalry with South Carolina. All games were played in the opposing school's home city. The rivalry matchup with South Carolina was held on Thursday morning at the South Carolina state fair, a tradition that would endure until 1960. Riggs served as the team's coach while R. G. Hamilton was the first captain.


1896 Cleveland Spiders season
The 1896 Cleveland Spiders season was a season in American baseball. The team finished with an 80–48 record and a second-place finish in the National League. After the season they played the first-place Baltimore Orioles in the Temple Cup series. The same two teams had met the previous season, with the second-place Spiders beating the first-place Orioles 4 games to 1, but this year the results were reversed, as the Spiders were swept in four straight.


1896 Cleveland Spiders season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1896 Cleveland Spiders season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1896 Cleveland Spiders season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1896 Cleveland Spiders season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1896 Colgate football team
The 1896 Colgate football team represented Colgate University in the 1896 college football season. The team captain for the 1896 season was Warwick Ford.


1896 College Football All-America Team
The 1896 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1896 college football season, as selected by Caspar Whitney for Harper's Weekly and the Walter Camp Football Foundation.


1896 Colorado Silver and Gold football team
The 1896 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado during the 1896 college football season. The season marked the program's third consecutive conference championship under head coach Fred Folsom. The team recorded a record of 2–0 in the CFA and 5–0 overall, marking its first undefeated season.


1896 Colorado gubernatorial election
The 1896 Colorado gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896. Democratic nominee Alva Adams defeated People's Party nominee Morton Shelley Bailey with 46.22% of the vote.


1896 Columbian Orange and Blue football team
The 1896 Columbian Orange and Blue football team was an American football team that represented Columbian University (now known as George Washington University) as an independent during the 1896 college football season. In first second season under head coach Graham Nichols, the team compiled a 2–1 record.


1896 Connecticut gubernatorial election
The 1896 Connecticut gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896. Republican nominee Lorrin A. Cooke defeated Democratic nominee Joseph B. Sargent with 62.53% of the vote.


1896 Cork Senior Football Championship
The 1896 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 10th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.


1896 Cork Senior Football Championship
Lees won the championship following a 0-03 to 0-00 defeat of Kanturk in the final at Cork Park. This was their third title overall and their first title since 1888.


1896 Cork Senior Hurling Championship
The 1896 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 10th staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.


1896 Cork Senior Hurling Championship
Blackrock were the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Redmonds in the first round of the championship.


1896 Cork Senior Hurling Championship
On 6 December 1896, Ballyhea won the championship following a 6-10 to 1-2 defeat of Ballygarvan in the final. This remains their only championship title.


1896 Cornell Big Red football team
The 1896 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1896 college football season. In their first season under head coach Joseph Beacham, the Big Red compiled a 5–3–1 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 162 to 82.


1896 County Championship
The 1896 County Championship was the seventh officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 4 May to 31 August 1896. Yorkshire County Cricket Club claimed victory that year, winning 16 of their 26 matches and losing only three. Five of Yorkshire's players made over 1,000 runs in the season, including John Brown who was placed third nationally, while Yorkshireman Bobby Peel was sixth highest wicket taker and Schofield Haigh held one of the leading bowling averages.


1896 County Championship
Although Yorkshire had a crop of players accruing these statistics, Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji of Sussex took the plaudits for the most runs that year, 1,698, at the highest average, 58.55, while Surrey's Tom Richardson took the most wickets – 191, and William Attewell of Nottinghamshire returned the best average – 14.63 for his 87 wickets.


1896 County Championship, Highlights
The highest team total during 1896 was 887, made by Yorkshire against Warwickshire at Edgbaston, composed of centuries from Stanley Jackson (117), Ted Wainwright (136), Bobby Peel (210*) and Lord Hawke (166). The latter two were both career bests. In contrast, the lowest team total was 45 when Surrey were routed by only two Middlesex bowlers. WG Grace's 301 against Sussex was the highest score of the season, while there were three hat-tricks for Richardson, Jack Hearne and Walter Mead. Richardson also took the season's best match figures, 15/113 against Leicestershire, while Mead took 9/75 – the best innings figures of the season.


1896 Cowra colonial by-election
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Cowra on 2 April 1896 because of the death of Denis Donnelly (Protectionist).


1896 Dartmouth football team
The 1896 Dartmouth football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1896 college football season.


1896 Dartmouth football team
The number of games played in 1896 was reduced from the previous season, down to a more normal level of eight. One notable absence from the 1896 schedule was a game against rival Harvard, the only time during Wurtenburg's tenure that the Crimson were not played. The 1896 season was also the most successful, winning percentage-wise during Wurtenburg's time as coach; the team finished the year with a 5–2–1 record and a .688 win percentage, the tenth best record in the country out of the thirty major teams.


1896 Dartmouth football team
Following an initial win against the Worcester Athletic Association, the squad suffered back-to-back shutout losses to Yale and Penn. The remainder of the season, however, was highly successful for the team, and they went 4–0–1 in their final five games. This included defeating both Triangular Football League opponents by a combined score of 42–0 for a fourth consecutive championship, and a tie with the Brown team they had lost to the previous year.


1896 Dartmouth football team
Several members of the team would later become college football coaches, including Walter McCornack, Frank Cavanaugh, John B. Eckstorm, David Carr MacAndrew, Joseph H. Edwards, Fred Crolius, and Charles J. Boyle.


1896 Davidson football team
The 1896 Davidson football team was an American football team represented Davidson University in the 1896 college football season. The team compiled a 0–1 record and played just one match against the Charlotte YMCA. The game was played on their own campus.


1896 Delaware gubernatorial election
The 1896 Delaware gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896. Shortly after his victory in the 1894 gubernatorial election, Republican Governor Joshua H. Marvil died. State Senate Speaker William T. Watson, a Democrat, became Governor and a new election for a full four-year term was scheduled in 1896. Though Watson was considered a potential candidate for re-election, the Democratic convention instead nominated Ebe W. Tunnell, the 1894 nominee for Governor; despite his protests that he would decline the nomination, Tunnell ultimately accepted it.


1896 Delaware gubernatorial election
The Republican Party, meanwhile, split in the election and nominated two separate candidates for Governor: the faction of the Republican Party affiliated with wealthy industrialist J. Edward Addicks split off from the main Party and nominated John H. Hoffecker the President of the Smyrna Town Council. The anti-Addicks faction, which held the official Republican banner, nominated former State Representative John C. Higgins. The fragmentation continued throughout the campaign, and despite rumors that the fractions would reunite and nominate a single candidate, they did not do so.


1896 Delaware gubernatorial election
The split ended up destroying the Republican Party's chances of regaining the governorship; Tunnell defeated Hoffecker and Higgins by a wide margin, though he fell far short of a majority. This ended up being the final election that occurred under the 1831 Constitution; the 1897 Constitution was drafted the following year and ratified prior to the 1900 gubernatorial election.


1896 Democratic National Convention
The 1896 Democratic National Convention, held at the Chicago Coliseum from July 7 to July 11, was the scene of William Jennings Bryan's nomination as the Democratic presidential candidate for the 1896 U.S. presidential election.


1896 Democratic National Convention
At age 36, Bryan was the youngest presidential nominee in American history, only one year older than the constitutional minimum. Bryan's keynote "Cross of Gold" address, delivered prior to his nomination, lambasted Eastern monied classes for supporting the gold standard at the expense of the average worker. This was a repudiation of Cleveland administration's policy, but proved popular with the delegates to the convention.


1896 Democratic National Convention
Bryan secured the nomination on the fifth ballot over Richard P. Bland. Bryan declined to choose a Democratic vice presidential nominee, leaving the choice to his fellow delegates. Arthur Sewall of Maine was nominated on the fifth ballot. Bryan and Sewall ultimately lost to the Republican candidates, William McKinley and Garret Hobart.


1896 Democratic National Convention, Silver in control
For three years the nation had been mired in a deep economic depression, marked by low prices, low profits, high unemployment, and violent strikes. Economic issues, especially silver or gold for the money supply, and tariffs, were central. President Grover Cleveland, a Bourbon Democrat was pro-business and a staunch supporter of conservative measures such as the gold standard; he was strongest in the Northeast. Opposed to him were the agrarian and silver factions based in the South and West, which had been empowered after the Panic of 1893.


1896 Democratic National Convention, Silver in control
A two-thirds vote was required for the Democratic Party nomination and at the convention the silverites just barely had it despite the extreme regional polarization of the delegates. In a test vote on an anti-silver measure, the Eastern states (from Maryland to Maine), with 28% of the delegates voted 96% for gold. The delegates from the rest of the country voted 91% against gold, so the silverites controlled 67% of the delegates.


1896 Democratic National Convention, Bryan moves up
Bryan had an innate talent at oratory. He gave speeches, organized meetings, and adopted resounding resolutions that eventually culminated in the founding of the American Bimetallic League, which then evolved into the National Bimetallic Union, and finally the National Silver Committee. At the time many inflationist farmers believed that by increasing the amount of currency in circulation, the crops they grew would receive higher prices. They were opposed by banks and bond holders who feared inflation, and by urban workers who feared inflation would further erode their purchasing power. The ultimate goal of the League was to garner support on a national level for the reinstatement of the coinage of silver.


1896 Democratic National Convention, Bryan moves up
With others, he made certain that the Democratic platform reflected the now strengthening spirit of the silverites. With his support, Charles H. Jones, of the St Louis Post-Dispatch, was put on the platform committee and Bryan's plank for free silver was adopted sixteen to one and silently added to the Chicago Democratic Platform, in order to avoid controversy. As a minority member of the resolutions committee, Bryan was able to push the Democratic Party from its laissez-faire and small government roots towards its modern, liberal character.


1896 Democratic National Convention, Bryan moves up
Through these measures, the public and influential Democrats became convinced of his capacity to lead and bring change, resulting in his being mentioned as a possible chairman for the Chicago convention. Bryan delivered speeches across the country for free silver from 1894 to 1896, building a grass-roots reputation as a powerful champion of the cause.


1896 Democratic National Convention, Bryan moves up
At the 1896 convention, Bryan lambasted Eastern moneyed classes for supporting the gold standard at the expense of the average worker. His "Cross of Gold" speech made him the sensational new face in the Democratic party. At the start of the convention, former Missouri Congressman Richard P. Bland, a strong supporter of bimetallism, was viewed as the favorite. However, Bland was strongly opposed by many in the South, in part because his wife and daughter were Catholics. Some bimetallist supporters tried to draft Republican Senator Henry M. Teller of Colorado, but his candidacy never got off the ground.


1896 Democratic National Convention, Bryan moves up
Several state delegations, mostly from the Northeast, supported the gold standard and refused to take part in the nomination process. Many conservative Democrats looked to former Senator David B. Hill of New York or Governor William Russell of Massachusetts for leadership, but Russell was in poor health and Hill did not gain support for a presidential bid. Eight names were placed in nomination: Richard P. Bland, William J. Bryan, Claude Matthews, Horace Boies, Joseph Blackburn, John R. McLean, Robert E. Pattison, and Sylvester Pennoyer. The only major candidate that did support the gold standard was former Pennsylvania Governor Pattison. After five ballots, Bryan triumphed over Bland and Pattison. Bryan was also nominated for president by the Populist Party and the Silver Republican Party.


1896 Democratic National Convention, Vice Presidential nomination
After the selection of Bryan, the convention turned its attention to picking a running mate. Newspaper publisher John Roll McLean of Ohio was viewed as a possible candidate, in part because his fortune could help fund the ticket. Former Representative George F. Williams of Massachusetts, businessman Arthur Sewall of Maine, and former Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland of Arkansas were all mentioned as possible candidates.


1896 Democratic National Convention, Vice Presidential nomination
Eight names were placed in nomination: Arthur Sewall, John R. McLean, Joseph C. Sibley, George F. Williams, Walter Clark, J. Hamilton Lewis, George W. Fithian, and Sylvester Pennoyer. After being placed in nomination, McLean, Sibley, and Fithian made it known to the convention that they were not candidates for the vice presidency. Sewall ultimately received the nomination on the fifth ballot. The Populist Party and the Silver Republican Party also both nominated Bryan for president, but the Populists nominated former Georgia Representative Thomas E. Watson instead of Sewell.


1896 Democratic National Convention, Vice Presidential nomination, Vice Presidential candidates
President of the Maine Central Railroad Arthur Sewall of Maine


1896 Democratic National Convention, Vice Presidential nomination, Vice Presidential candidates
Representative Nominee J. Hamilton Lewis of Washington (Ineligible, not yet 35 years of age)


1896 Detroit College Tigers football team
The 1896 Detroit College Tigers football team represented Detroit College (renamed the University of Detroit in 1911) during the 1896 college football season. Detroit outscored opponents by a combined total of 66 to 40 and finished with a 5–2 record in their first year of intercollegiate football. The team's head coach was William S. Robinson.


1896 Detroit College Tigers football team
In the only intercollegiate football game of the season, Detroit was shut out by St. Ignatius College by a 20 to 0 score on Thanksgiving Day.


1896 Detroit College Tigers football team
Leo J. Keena played at the fullback position for the 1896 Detroit team, and later played for Michigan from 1897 to 1899. Ernest O'Brien was the captain of the 1896 team.


1896 Dickinson football team
The 1896 Dickinson football team was an American football team that represented Dickinson College as an independent during the 1896 college football season. The team compiled a 4–5 record and outscored opponents by a total of 130 to 90. Nathan Stauffer was the team's head coach.


1896 Drake Bulldogs football team
The 1896 Drake Bulldogs football team represented Drake University during the 1896 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Fred Rogers, the team compiled a 2–3 record and was outscored by a total of 98 to 28.


1896 Drexel Dragons football team
The 1896 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel Institute of Technology (renamed Drexel University in 1970) as an independent during the 1896 college football season. The team did not have a head coach.


1896 East Coast hurricane
The 1896 East Coast hurricane was a slow-moving tropical cyclone that battered the East Coast of the United States from Florida to New England in mid-October 1896. The fifth tropical cyclone of the 1896 Atlantic hurricane season, it formed on October 7 in the southern Gulf of Mexico, and caused minor damage in Florida while crossing the state two days later. From October 10 through 13, the hurricane drifted northeastward along the coast, reaching its peak intensity as the equivalence of a Category 2 hurricane on the modern-day Saffir–Simpson scale. The hurricane subjected many areas along the East Coast to days of high seas and damaging northeasterly winds, which halted shipping operations.


1896 East Coast hurricane
The Mid-Atlantic coastline experienced flooding storm tides that submerged and heavily eroded Cobb's Island, part of the Virginia Barrier Islands. Hotels and cottages there were extensively damaged, and the hurricane brought about the end of the island's stint as a popular summer resort. Along the Jersey Shore, low-lying railroads were flooded, boardwalks were destroyed, and many beach houses sustained damage. The hurricane did $200,000 in damage to coastal installations on New York's Coney Island. To the north, wind gusts as high as 80 mph (130 km/h) affected eastern New England. Four sailors died in two maritime incidents attributed to the hurricane, and overall damage amounted to $500,000.


1896 East Coast hurricane, Meteorological history
The fifth documented tropical cyclone of the 1896 season was first noted in the southern Gulf of Mexico as a weak tropical storm on October 7. It tracked toward the east-northeast and made landfall in a sparely populated region of Southwest Florida around 00:02 UTC on October 9. The storm crossed the Florida Peninsula and emerged over open water near Sebastian. Turning more northeastward, the storm gradually intensified and achieved hurricane intensity on October 10. By that evening, hurricane warnings were hoisted along the East Coast of the United States from Jacksonville, Florida to Boston, Massachusetts.


1896 East Coast hurricane, Meteorological history
The unusually slow-moving hurricane attained its peak intensity early on October 11, with estimated maximum sustained winds of 100 mph (155 km/h). Shortly thereafter, it made its closest approach to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, passing roughly 115 mi (185 km) to the southeast. For several days, the hurricane brushed the coast from Virginia to southern New England with hurricane-force wind gusts. The storm began to weaken as it slowly gained latitude. Unnseasonably cool temperatures were recorded in New York City as the system passed offshore, suggesting that it had begun losing its tropical characteristics. By 00:00 UTC on October 14, the storm completed its transition into an extratropical cyclone, and no winds stronger than tropical storm-force were observed north of 41°N. A little over a day later, the hurricane's extratropical remnants struck the coast of central Nova Scotia before dissipating on October 16.


1896 East Coast hurricane, Impact
The relatively weak storm caused little damage upon landfall in Florida, though some coastal flooding occurred near Punta Gorda. An apparent tornado north of the storm's track destroyed a home and an outbuilding. Northeasterly gales and high tides affected northeastern portions of the state, including Fernandina, where lumber docks were flooded and parts of the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad were washed out. Street flooding also plagued St. Augustine, but no major damage was reported there.


1896 East Coast hurricane, Impact
Strong northerly gales affected the Outer Banks of North Carolina for three days, peaking at 72 mph (116 km/h) in Kitty Hawk on October 11. Winds reached 70 mph (110 km/h) along the Virginia Capes and 40 mph (65 km/h) farther west at Norfolk. Just inside the capes, a cargo ship called the Henry A. Litchfield ran aground on October 12. Storm surge flooding inundated the Cape Henry Light keeper's house and washed away telegraph poles, while severe damage was reported in Virginia Beach.


1896 East Coast hurricane, Impact
There, high waves destroyed fishing nets and crumbled bulkheads, but advance warning of the storm allowed most vessels to safely ride out the storm in port. Near Norfolk, floodwaters damaged the banks of the Dismal Swamp Canal to the point of collapse in some spots. The storm inundated the Virginia Barrier Islands, completely covering Cobb's Island, a popular summer resort, to a depth of at least 1 ft (0.30 m). Pounding waves, reportedly 40 ft (12 m) high, crushed some cottages and partially buried others in sand, while depositing numerous boats in the middle of the island.


1896 East Coast hurricane, Impact
United States Life-Saving Service crews rescued two women in imminent danger of being swept out to sea. As waters rose, residents fled to the upper stories of their homes to await rescue by lifeguards. The Cobb's Island Hotel was a complete loss, and almost every building on the island sustained some degree of damage. The storm claimed about 50 acres (20 ha) of Cobb's Island, reducing its size by two-thirds; subsequently, the inhabitants abandoned the island, and its use as a resort ended. Due to the slow-moving nature of the hurricane, the flooding persisted for two days before receding.


1896 East Coast hurricane, Impact
Along the coast of Delaware near Cape Henlopen, the schooner Luther A. Roby was driven aground and broken up by the pounding surf. Three crew members died in the wreck, and five others safely reached shore with the help of rescue workers. Offshore, the steamship Baron Innerdale was damaged in the storm, and one of the crew members was swept overboard.


1896 East Coast hurricane, Impact
The worst effects were observed along the Northeastern shoreline from New Jersey to New England. In these areas, coastal flooding and persistent gales inflicted an estimated $500,000 in damage to beachfront property. Many small houses, seawalls, wharves, and piers were damaged or destroyed. Wind gusts along the Jersey Shore reached 75 mph (120 km/h), which unroofed buildings and blew summer cottages off their foundations. Homes and businesses in Asbury Park were bombarded by the debris from a half-mile stretch of boardwalk that was torn apart. Thousands of spectators lined the shoreline there to watch the enormous waves.


1896 East Coast hurricane, Impact
One of the premier hotels in Sea Isle City was demolished, along with numerous cottages. The storm heavily flooded streets in the city and damaged yachts along the coast. Just south of Sea Isle City, the steamer Spartan went ashore after her captain spent 30 hours fighting the storm at the wheel. In Atlantic City, one amusement pier was heavily damaged by an impact from the dislodged wreckage of a previously sunk schooner, while another was broken up by the surf.


1896 East Coast hurricane, Impact
Winds in Atlantic City gusted to 55 mph (90 km/h), and floodwaters surrounded some cottages, forcing residents to leave their homes by boat. The railway to Ocean City was washed out, leaving the community temporarily isolated. Railroad tracks were also submerged to the south at Cape May. Farther inland, the winds brought down some few trees and overhead wires. In Millville, high tides caused the Maurice River to overflow and destroy crops in bordering fields.


1896 East Coast hurricane, Impact
Hog Island, a barrier island that was mostly washed away by the 1893 New York hurricane, was further eroded by the rough seas. Beaches, pavilions, bath houses, and boardwalks on Coney Island incurred significant damage, with many small buildings along Brighton Beach being "picked up bodily and carried away." Damage on Coney Island was expected to cost at least $200,000. In Far Rockaway, Queens, beachfront houses built on stilts were leveled, while significant flooding extended well inland; multiple hotels were inundated by at least 2 ft (0.61 m) of water.


1896 East Coast hurricane, Impact
In New England, the storm kept all vessels at port for several days. The strongest recorded winds on land occurred on Block Island, Rhode Island, where gusts reached 80 mph (130 km/h). Elsewhere, winds peaked at 60 mph (97 km/h) on Nantucket, Massachusetts, and 52 mph (84 km/h) at Boston. The storm partially destroyed a seawall and shifted a building off its foundation in Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island. Near South Boston, the storm broke 15 yachts from their moorings and tossed them ashore, sinking several others. The schooner Alsatin sank off Bakers Island; her crew of four was rescued by a passing steamer. At Cohasset, a new lifeboat station constructed by the Massachusetts Humane Society was destroyed. As the former hurricane moved over Nova Scotia, Halifax experienced gusty winds and moderate rainfall.


1896 East Kerry by-election
The 1896 East Kerry by-election was held on 27 March 1896 due to the incumbent MP, Michael Davitt of the Irish National Federation also standing in South Mayo and taking that seat so leaving East Kerry vacant.


1896 East Kerry by-election
The Nationalists had split into two factions after the party leader, Charles Stewart Parnell was named as co-respondent in a divorce. James Roche was supported initially by both the Parnellites and the Anti- Parnellites, until it was revealed that he was himself divorced. During the campaign, Roche denied publicly that he knew of the divorce or that he had deserted his wife and children. It was thought Roche lost some support because as a divorced man he was less popular with the Catholic vote. Although he went on to win the seat, the opposing Unionist candidate gained the highest vote ever recorded for a Unionist candidate in Kerry East.


1896 East Kerry by-election
Roche served one term and did not stand in the following general election in 1900.


1896 Eastern North America heat wave
The 1896 eastern North America heat wave was a 10-day heat wave in New York City, Boston, Newark and Chicago that killed about 1,500 people in August 1896.


1896 Eastern North America heat wave, History
There were ten days of temperatures at least 90 °F (32 °C) with high humidity and little breeze. The temperatures in New York did not drop below 72 °F (22 °C) at night, with three consecutive nights at 80 °F (27 °C) or above. It killed more than the New York City draft riots and the Great Chicago Fire combined. A majority of the deaths were of working-class men in their twenties who performed manual labor.


1896 Eastern North America heat wave, History
The New York City Public Works Commissioner ordered that his workers' shifts be modified so they would not be working during midday, and he had fire hydrants opened to cool people on the street. Theodore Roosevelt, then New York City Police Commissioner, distributed free ice from local police stations. After accidental deaths from people falling off the roofs they were sleeping on, the New York City Parks Department allowed people to sleep in parks overnight.


1896 Edinburgh Corporation election
Election for Edinburgh Corporation were held on Tuesday 3 November 1896, alongside municipal elections across Scotland, and the wider British local elections. The election was relatively quiet, with no particularly important issues being raised, and contests took place in only 2 of the cities 13 wards, with candidates in the remaining 11 being returned unopposed.


1896 Edinburgh Corporation election
The election followed the annexation of Portobello to Edinburgh, and the three new Portobello wards had to elect their initial representation. Contests took place in two of the three Portobello wards, with Portobello West and Portobello east seeing contests. Portobello would in total contribute 5 Unionist and 4 Liberal councillors. This gave the new council a slight Unionist majority.


1896 English cricket season
1896 was the seventh season of County Championship cricket in England. Yorkshire won the championship title having lost only losing three of their 26 matches, setting a points percentage record with 68.42. Yorkshire's team did not possess the greatest performers statistically, such as Sussex with Ranjitsinhji, or Gloucestershire with W. G. Grace, but a well-rounded squad with four bowlers taking more than 70 wickets in the Championship and five batsmen scoring over 1000 runs gave them the title. Playing against Warwickshire at Edgbaston in May, Warwickshire scored 887 in their first innings, which is still the highest total in the history of the County Championship.


1896 English cricket season
The highlight of the season, however, was the Australian tour, where Australia won their first Test match in England since 1888, and gave England a fight up until the third Test. On a rain-affected pitch, however, England hauled in a 66-run third test victory thanks to Bobby Peel, who took six for 23. The win sealed the Ashes in favour of England by 2 wins to 1.


1896 English cricket season, Ashes tour
England won again, but this time faced a series-decider in the final match at The Oval, without George Lohmann of Surrey and William Gunn of Nottinghamshire, who went on a strike over match fees allegedly received by the amateur WG Grace. In the first Test at Lord's, England won by six wickets, chasing 108 to win, but Australia recovered to win the second Test at Old Trafford, despite 154 from Ranjitsinhji on debut - as the first Indian to play Test cricket, and only the second to score a century on Test debut. The third Test was ravaged by rain, and in poor playing conditions England won by 66 runs. The highest individual score in that match was 47 from Australian Joe Darling.


1896 European Rowing Championships
The 1896 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on Lake Geneva in the Swiss city of Geneva on 6 September. The competition was for men only, five nations competed (Austria-Hungary, Belgium, France, Italy, and Switzerland), and the regatta had four boat classes (M1x, M2+, M4+, M8+). At the FISA Congress held on the same day as these championships, four nations were represented.


1896 European Rowing Championships, Event schedule
Four races took place on 6 September 1896. As only five nations competed, no heats had to be rowed. The regatta used a 2000 m course:


1896 FA Cup Final
The 1896 FA Cup Final was won by The Wednesday at the Crystal Palace, in a victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers.


1896 FA Cup Final, Tournament format
Clubs competed for a new trophy, which remains the oldest surviving FA Cup trophy, although it was retired from use in 1910.


1896 FA Cup Final, The Final
Fred Spiksley became the star of the show in this Cup Final, scoring the two goals that gave the Wednesday a 2–1 win. Within the first minute, a run by Harry Davis, the outside-right, set up Spiksley to slot home the first. David Black soon equalised for Wolves with a cunning hook close to the post. Spiksley however smashed a shot against the upright which bounced into the goal and then out again. The referee gave a goal. The score stayed the same till the final whistle to give Wednesday their first FA Cup win.


1896 Florida gubernatorial election
The 1896 Florida gubernatorial election was held on October 6, 1896. Democratic nominee William D. Bloxham defeated Republican nominee E. R. Gunby with 66.55% of the vote.


1896 Frome by-election
The Frome by-election, 1896, was a by-election held on 2 Jun 1896 for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.


1896 Frome by-election
The By-election was called when the incumbent Viscount Weymouth entered the House of Lords as the 5th Marquess of Bath in 1896 on the death of his father. Weymouth had been the Member of Parliament for Frome between 1886 and 1892 and from 1895 to 1896.


1896 Frome by-election
Weymouths brother Alexander Thynne stood as the Conservative Party candidate against the Liberal Party candidate John Barlow. The constituency had changed from Conservative to Liberal parties a number of times and Barlow had lost the seat at the 1895 General Election to Viscount Weymouth who had a majority of 383.


1896 Frome by-election, Result
Barlow was elected the Member for Frome with majority of 299.


1896 Furman Purple Hurricane football team
The 1896 Furman Purple Hurricane football team represented the Furman Purple Hurricane of Furman University during the 1896 college football season.


1896 Geneva Covenanters football team
The 1896 Geneva Covenanters football team was an American football team that represented Geneva College as an independent during the 1896 college football season. Led by William McCracken in his seventh and final year as head coach, Geneva compiled a record of 0–5.


1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team
The 1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. As a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA), the team provided Georgia with its first undefeated season, compiling a 4–0 record and defeating North Carolina for the first time. The Bulldogs were co-champions of the SIAA with LSU, who joined the conference in 1896.


1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Before the season
This was the Georgia Bulldogs' second and final season under the guidance of head coach Pop Warner who had continued as coach for a second season at a salary of $40 per week for ten weeks. "It was rare in those days that a coach lasted more than one season". Several veterans returned from last season. Rufus B. Nalley and Richard Von Albade Gammon were both in the backfield, with Gammon at quarterback, and Nalley as captain.


1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, Wofford
The season opened in Spartanburg with a 26–0 defeat of Wofford.


1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, North Carolina
In "the first big football game of the season", Georgia beat North Carolina 24–16 in a close game. "For the first time in Southern football history the football supremacy of Virginia and North Carolina was successfully challenged."


1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, North Carolina
The first touchdown came when George Whitfield Price went around right tackle for 8 yards. "There were yells of 'Price', 'Price' everywhere". Carolina's Heyward then got his own touchdown through right tackle.


1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, North Carolina
Later, Carolina's Belden made a great punt, which went over Lovejoy's head. Wright fell on it for a touchdown, giving Carolina the lead. Then Blanch broke through and tied the score with a 30-yard run between right end and tackle. He then later went around right end to put the Bulldogs up by a score as the first half ended. A blocked kick from Blanch and Key led to Georgia's final touchdown. After Green ran for 40 yards on a fake buck, Heyward scored the last touchdown for Carolina from 5 yards out.


1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, North Carolina
The starting lineup was Wight (left end), Price (left tackle), Blanch (left guard), Atkinson (center, Middlebrooke (right guard), Kent (right tackle), Watson (right end), Gammon (quarterback), Nalley (left halfback), Cothrell (right halfback), Lovejoy (fullback).


1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, Sewanee
The Bulldogs defeated the Sewanee Tigers 26–0. Sewanee's offense was weak.


1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, Auburn
In the rivalry game with John Heisman's Auburn to decide the conference, Georgia won 12–6 to close its first undefeated season. Georgia's quarterback the following season Reynolds Tichenor was at the same spot for the Tigers.


1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, Auburn
Lovejoy scored Georgia's first touchdown, without Nalley using signals. The next touchdown came on another trick, with an onside kick to get the ball. Walter Cothran followed this with an 80-yard touchdown run. Tichenor then had a long punt return for Auburn. Tichenor once said he had been sprawled on the ground, when a big Georgia lineman jumped at him, knees first, with Tichenor rolling out of the way just in time. "The fellow was very polite," Tichenor said. "We both got up and he apologized very profusely for having missed me." Tichenor later transferred to Georgia to attend law school.


1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, Auburn
The starting lineup was Wight (left end), Price (left tackle), Walker (left guard), Atkinson (center, Blanch (right guard), Walden (right tackle), Dougherty (right end), Gammon (quarterback), Nalley (left halfback), Pomeroy (right halfback), Lovejoy (fullback).


1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Postseason
The 1896 team is considered one of Georgia's early great ones. Georgia did not win another conference championship until the 1920 season.


1896 Georgia Tech football team
The 1896 Georgia Tech football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was the team's first season in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association.


1896 Glasgow Corporation election
Elections to the Corporation of the City of Glasgow were held on Tuesday 3 November 1896, alongside municipal elections across Scotland, and the wider British local elections.


1896 Glasgow Corporation election
The usual process was for one third of the councillors to be re-elected annually, however Glasgow had seen boundary extensions and had transformed from a Town Council to a City Corporation, and as such the election saw all 75 councillors from all 25 wards (3 councillors per ward) seeking re-election simultaneously. This was the first time since 3 November 1846 that all of Glasgow's councillors had been up for re-election simultaneously. The 1846 re-election had occurred as a result of the towns of Calton, Anderston, and the Gorbals being subsumed into Glasgow.


1896 Glasgow Corporation election
The election saw a group of social and civic reformers known as the Progressive Union emerge as the largest group on the council. The Progressive's had been inspired by the London-based Progressive Party, although Glasgow's Progressive platform had a more evangelical religious focus, combined with a belief in temperance, observance of the sabbath, and good municipal governance.


1896 Glasgow Corporation election
Contests took place in 23 of the cities 25 wards, with only the wards of Kingston and Sandyford going uncontested. Overall 114 candidates contested the 75 seats. The election saw an unusually heavy turnout, with female voters in particular voting in unprecedented numbers. This was credited to the efforts and influence of the new Progressive Union grouping.


1896 Glasgow Corporation election
The election was also the first to be contested by the Workers Municipal Elections Committee, which had been set up in June 1896 and comprised the Irish National League, the Independent Labour Party, and the Co-operative movement. This grouping was brought together under the leadership of John Ferguson (elected for Calton ward), a prominent Irish Home Rule activist with close contacts to both the Labour movement and radical politics.


1896 Gloucester smallpox epidemic
The 1896 Gloucester smallpox epidemic affected more than 2,000 people in Gloucester between 5 January and 27 July 1896. A large number of the town's population were not vaccinated.


1896 Gloucester smallpox epidemic
On 13 August 1896, the Royal Commission on Vaccination's report on the epidemic was published by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.


1896 Gloucester smallpox epidemic, Background
In Britain, smallpox vaccination became compulsory in the 1850s. In Gloucester, a smallpox outbreak occurred in the mid-1870s. However, the 1890s also saw anti-vaccination beliefs.


1896 Gloucester smallpox epidemic, Cases
President of the Local Government Board Thomas Russell stated in 1896 that, between 4 January and 25 July 1896, the number of cases of smallpox in Gloucester totalled 2,008. A large number of the town's population were not vaccinated.


1896 Gloucester smallpox epidemic, Cases, Ethel Cromwell
Ethel Cromwell was around 14 years old when her photograph was taken in a hospital in Gloucester, following admission with smallpox. She was not vaccinated, but recovered.


1896 Gloucester smallpox epidemic, Response
An isolation hospital, the Stroud Road hospital was built in response.


1896 Gloucester smallpox epidemic, Response
One reaction was that it led to prejudice against Gloucesterians.


1896 Gloucester smallpox epidemic, Response
On 13 August 1896, the Royal College of Surgeons of England published a report by the Royal Commission on Vaccination, whose members included Lord Herschell and Sir James Paget.


1896 Grand National
The 1896 Grand National was the 58th renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 27 March 1896.


1896 Grand National
Winning jockey David Campbell owned The Soarer until a few weeks before the race when he sold him toHall Walker.


1896 Greensburg Athletic Association season
The 1896 Greensburg Athletic Association season was their seventh season in existence. The team finished 6–1–1.


1896 Harvard Crimson football team
The 1896 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1896 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 7–4 record under first-year head coach Bert Waters. The team won its first six games, but lost four of the final five games, including losses to rivals Princeton and Penn.


1896 Haskell Indians football team
The 1896 Haskell Indians football team was an American football team that represented the Haskell Indian Institute (now known as Haskell Indian Nations University) as an independent during the 1896 college football season. The team compiled a 0–4 record. No record has been found identifying a coach for the team.


1896 Highland Views Athletic Club football team
The 1896 Highland Views football team was an American football team that represented the Highland Views club of South Bend, Indiana in the 1896 college football season. The Green and White (the club's colors) had held claim to being the Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan football champions, as they had not lost or been scored against in the past three years. This claim was dashed when the club team lost to Notre Dame, 82 to 0.


1896 Holy Cross football team
The 1896 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent in the 1896 college football season.


1896 Holy Cross football team
In their first year under head coach Alfred C. N. Peterson, the team compiled a 2–2–2 record. John J. Finn was the team captain.


1896 Holy Cross football team
Holy Cross' record book considers this its first season of varsity football play. It also featured the first game in the Boston College–Holy Cross football rivalry, as well as the most controversial game in the history of the rivalry – and of Holy Cross football. BC and HC each claim to have won the November 14 rematch game, after both teams refused to follow referees' instructions following a controversial play with three minutes remaining in the game.


1896 Holy Cross football team
Holy Cross was leading 6-4 when Boston College scored what its players, and a raucous home crowd, asserted was the go-ahead touchdown; Holy Cross maintained the runner had been tackled for a loss. Officials initially ruled in favor of Holy Cross, and Boston College's players protested by refusing to take the field, leading the officials to declare a 6-4 Holy Cross win. Under pressure from the South End Grounds crowd, however, they reversed their decision and asked Holy Cross, whose players were already celebrating their win, to resume play. Holy Cross refused.


1896 Holy Cross football team
The game restarted with only Boston College players, who promptly scored a touchdown (then worth 4 points) to end the game with an 8-6 victory. Decades later, the two colleges continued to disagree on who had won the game. Because of the disputed win, some statisticians list Holy Cross with a 1–3–2 record in 1896.


1896 Holy Cross football team
One of Holy Cross' star players this year was Louis Sockalexis, a multi-sport athlete who later found fame as the first Native American player in Major League Baseball.


1896 Holy Cross football team
Holy Cross played its home games at two off-campus fields in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Worcester Agricultural Fairgrounds and the Worcester College Grounds.


1896 Home Nations Championship
The 1896 Home Nations Championship was the fourteenth series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 4 January and 14 March. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.


1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite
The Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite of 1896 took place in June 1896 to decide whether the constitution of the Sanitary Board should have an official or unofficial majority. It was the only plebiscite conducted by the Hong Kong Government on record. The other de facto referendum launched by the pro-democracy camp through the by-election in 2010 was not officially recognised.


1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite
The result of the plebiscite was overwhelmingly for unofficial majority, however no constitutional changes were made for Sanitary Board, though the constitutions of the Executive and Legislative Council were changed as unofficial members were added as a result.


1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite
The 1896 plebiscite could be seen as part of the first major debate on the constitutional reform in the crown colony during the 1890s. It was much earlier than the Governor Mark Aitchison Young's Young Plan in the 1940s and 1950s and the rise of the modern pro-democracy camp in the 1980s.


1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Background
The Sanitary Board was established in 1883 in responsible of improving the sanitary conditions in the city as the result of Osbert Chadwick's report in 1881 advised.


1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Background
Under the 1887 Public Health Ordinance, the Board was composed of four official members and no more than six unofficial members, and that four official members should be appointed by the Governor (two of them being Chinese) and two elected by the ratepayers who were on the jury lists of the election year. Three elections were held in 1888, 1891 and 1894 respectively.


1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Background
The bubonic plague of 1894 raised the question of the composition and powers of the Board. The Government's decision of appointing a Medical Officer of Health to the Board in 1895 was against the will of the unofficial members. John Joseph Francis, the three times elected member resigned, and other three unofficial members Ho Kai, William Hartigan and Robert Kennaway Leigh followed.


1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Background
The members of the Executive Council and the Chamber of Commerce were dissatisfied the sanitation and ineffectiveness of the Board. Prominent leaders including J. J. Keswick of the Chamber of Commerce, Paul Chater and E. R. Belilios were in favour of an official majority while the officers directly responsible to the Governor. Contrast to the abolition of the Board, Ho Kai represented another opinion of maintaining the unofficial majority and larger power of the unofficial members. Governor William Robinson shared the same view with the former, insisted that a Medical Department with a Principal Civil Medical Officer directly under the Government should replace the Sanitary Board.


1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Background
With regard of the reconstitution of the Sanitary Board, Governor William Robinson conducted a plebiscite in June 1896.


1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Background
Besides the reconstitution of the Sanitary Board issues, in 1894 there was a group of petitioners supported by the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council Paul Chater and Ho Kai with 363 signatures asked for a further representations in the Colonial Government. They demanded:


1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Background
In the letter to the Secretary of State Lord Ripon on 5 June 1894, Governor William Robinson addressed:


1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Background
I believe that the Chinese, who are indifferently represented, and the Portuguese, who are not represented at all, if a plebiscite could be taken, would be in favour of a pure autocracy; the Americans need not to be counted, and the "Britishers" with the exception of a few "unquiet spirits" would be satisfied to let matters remain as they are.


1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Background
Although the Governor and the Acting Colonial Secretary Stewart Lockhart, J. J. Keswick and E. R. Belilios opposed the reform, Lord Ripon agreed with increasing the number of unofficial members in the Legislative Council, introducing unofficial element into the Executive Council and creating a Municipal Council.


1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Polling
A plebiscite was held in June 1896 and the question submitted to the voters being whether the Sanitary Board should consist of a majority of officials or of unofficials.


1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Polling
The electorates were limited to persons only on the jury lists of the year. There were 788 persons in total out of the 250,000 population in Hong Kong and 362 votes were cast. Most of entitled voters were from the British community. Among them there were three or four Chinese voted for the unofficials and none voted for the officials. Although the majority of the Chinese population was unrepresented, the result was overwhelmingly favour for the unofficial majority.


1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Aftermath
Although the plebiscite showed a clear view for unofficial majority, Robinson still insisted to have sanitary affairs placed directly under Government control.


1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Aftermath
The then Secretary of State Joseph Chamberlain was not pleased with the Governor's decision of a plebiscite and stated that "it is inconsistent with Crown Colony government to seek the guidance of a plebiscite; and in no community whatever whether Crown Colony or not, can a satisfactory solution of a question, in which the whole body of the ratepayers and many outside that body are interested, be induced from an expression of the opinions of one section alone." Moreover, in this case the plebiscite had led to a result which was opposed to the Governor's own advice.


1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Aftermath
Chamberlain refused any constitutional changes to the Sanitary Board. The election for the unofficial members resumed in 1899. The Sanitary Department was not established until the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance was passed in 1903.


1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Aftermath
Hong Kong had to wait until 1936 and the creation of the Urban Council for any further advance toward a municipal council.


1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Aftermath
Nevertheless, the other two suggestions by Lord Ripon were soon carried out, an unofficial member and an official member appointed to the Legislative Council respectively and two unofficial members who were the senior members the Legislative Council appointed to the Executive Council.


1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Aftermath
Wei Yuk was the newly appointed unofficial member to the Legislative Council as one of the two Chinese representative alongside Ho Kai who had been the member since 1890. Paul Chater and Jardine representative John Bell-Irving were the new unofficial members appointed to the Executive Council.


1896 Hungarian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary between 29 October and 4 November 1896 . The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 290 of the 413 seats.


1896 ICA Track Cycling World Championships
The 1896 track cycling world championships were the fourth world championships for track cycling. They took place in Copenhagen, Denmark. There were four events: separate amateur and professional races in both the sprint and the stayers' race (motor-paced).


1896 Idaho gubernatorial election
The 1896 Idaho gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896. Democratic nominee Frank Steunenberg defeated Republican nominee David H. Budlong with 76.79% of the vote.


1896 Illinois Fighting Illini football team
The 1896 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1896 Western Conference football season. In their second season under head coach George Huff, the Illini compiled a 4–2–1 record and finished in a tie for last place in the inaugural season of the Western Conference. Guard Charles D. Beebe was the team captain.


1896 Illinois gubernatorial election
The 1896 Illinois gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896.


1896 Illinois gubernatorial election
Incumbent Democratic Governor John Peter Altgeld was defeated by Republican nominee John Riley Tanner who won 54.10% of the vote.


1896 Illinois gubernatorial election, Democratic nomination, Results
The Democratic state convention was held on June 23, 1896, in Peoria.


1896 Illinois gubernatorial election, Republican nomination, Results
The Republican state convention was held on April 29 and 30, 1896 at Springfield.


1896 Indiana Hoosiers football team
The 1896 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an American football team that represented Indiana University Bloomington during the 1896 college football season. In their first season under head coach Madison G. Gonterman, the Hoosiers compiled a 6–3 record and outscored their opponents 186 to 74.


1896 Indiana State Sycamores football team
The 1896 Indiana State Sycamores football team represented Indiana State University in the 1896 college football season. This was the inaugural team for the university and played one game, versus Terre Haute High School; later Terre Haute William Wiley High. Few to no records remain, though it is known the Sycamores lost to the High Schoolers. The coach is unknown and the only player known is Lotus Coffman, future college president.


1896 Indiana State Sycamores football team
The Sycamores would ultimately face Terre Haute High a total of seven times between 1896-1902, achieving a record of 1-2-3 (.417) and one unknown outcome.


1896 Indiana gubernatorial election
The 1896 Indiana gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896. Republican nominee James A. Mount defeated Democratic nominee Benjamin F. Shively with 50.93% of the vote.


1896 Invercargill mayoral election
The 1896 Invercargill mayoral election was held on 25 November 1896 as part of that years local elections.


1896 Iowa Agricultural Cyclones football team
The 1896 Iowa Agricultural Cyclones football team represented Iowa Agricultural College (later renamed Iowa State University) as an independent during the 1896 college football season. Under head coaches Pop Warner and Bert German, the Cyclones compiled an 8–2 record, shut out seven of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 303 to 46. James W. Wilson was the team captain.


1896 Iowa Agricultural Cyclones football team
Between 1892 and 1913, the football team played on a field that later became the site of the university's Parks Library.


1896 Iowa Hawkeyes football team
The 1896 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa during the 1896 college football season. It was the first Hawkeye football team to win a conference championship. The Hawkeyes went undefeated against the likes of Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska and had only one loss, to Chicago. In fact, the team allowed only 12 points the entire season.


1896 Kansas Jayhawks football team
The 1896 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the Western Interstate University Football Association (WIUFA) during the 1896 college football season. In their third and final season under head coach Hector Cowan, the Jayhawks compiled a 7–3 record (2–1 against conference opponents), finished in second place in the WIUFA, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 136 to 40. The Jayhawks played their home games at McCook Field in Lawrence, Kansas. B. D. Hamill was the team captain.


1896 Kansas State Aggies football team
The 1896 Kansas State Aggies football team represented Kansas State Agricultural College during the 1896 college football season.


1896 Kansas gubernatorial election
The 1896 Kansas gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896. People's Party nominee John W. Leedy defeated incumbent Republican Edmund Needham Morrill with 50.55% of the vote.


1896 Kentucky Derby
The 1896 Kentucky Derby was the 22nd running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 6, 1896. This was the first Derby held at the current distance of 1 1⁄4 miles (2.0 km). Accordingly, the winning horse, Ben Brush, set the Derby record at that distance with a time of 2:07.75.


1896 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team
The 1896 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team represented Kentucky State College—now known as the University of Kentucky—during the 1896 college football season. It was the school's first season as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA).


1896 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
The 1896 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the eighth staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place on 29 March 1896.


1896 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
Confederation won the championship after a receiving a walkover from Callan in the final.


1896 LSU Tigers football team
The 1896 LSU Tigers football team represented the LSU Tigers of Louisiana State University during the 1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. This was LSU's first season playing as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). The Tigers, led by coach Allen Jeardeau, went undefeated and were the SIAA co-champions. It was LSU's second undefeated season in football. The 1896 team was also the first LSU team to use the nickname "Tigers".


1896 LSU Tigers football team, Roster
† -Team CaptainRoster from Fanbase.com and LSU: The Louisiana Tigers


1896 LSU Tigers football team, Game summaries, Centenary
LSU easily defeated Centenary 46–0. Robertson went around right end for the first touchdown. The starting lineup was Westbrook (left end), Nicholson (left tackle), Huyck (left guard), Atkinson (center), Scott (right guard), Robertson (right tackle), Slaughter (right end), Gourrier (quarterback), J. Daspit (left halfback), A. Daspit (right halfback), Lambert (fullback).


1896 LSU Tigers football team, Game summaries, Tulane
The Tulane game of this year was forfeited during the game due to Tulane having fielded an ineligible player. At the time that the game was declared forfeit, Tulane was leading with a score of 2 to nothing. About 10 minutes into the second half, LSU was moving the ball toward the goal line when a Tulane player named Depleche was injured. The injured player was replaced by George H. Brooke. LSU ran another play and gained 5 yards before realizing the identity of this substitute Tulane player.


1896 LSU Tigers football team, Game summaries, Tulane
LSU's team captain, Edwin A. Scott protested to the game's referee, Lieutenant Wall. Scott cited the rules of the SIAA and the mutual pre-game agreement between the schools as reasons that Brooke should be declared ineligible to play. Tulane's team captain, Louis J. Genella, refused to take Brooke out of the game and stated that Tulane refused to play without him. After a lengthy debate, the referee ruled that Brooke could not play, and that Tulane forfeited the game by refusing to play without him.


1896 LSU Tigers football team, Game summaries, Tulane
During the debate, Tulane argued that Brooke, who was previously a two time All-American at Pennsylvania, planned to enroll as a graduate student at Tulane. Brooke refused to sign an affidavit of his intention to enroll at Tulane. Due to the forfeiture, the official score was set at LSU 6, Tulane 0. Dr. William Dudley, President of the SIAA, later ruled that the game referee was right to declare the game forfeited and that men planning to enter a school were not eligible to play. Dudley ruled that prospective players should be enrolled for two weeks before being allowed to play in a game.


1896 LSU Tigers football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss
LSU defeated Ole Miss 12–6. The game was "close and hard" for the first ten minutes, then LSU made a touchdown. LSU scored again in the second half after continuous gains. Then Ole Miss scored late, "by the hardest sort of playing". The extra point attempt hit the crossbar.


1896 LSU Tigers football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss
The starting lineup was A. Daspit (left end), Arrighi (left tackle), Huyck (left guard), Chavanne (center), Schneider (right guard), Scott (right tackle), Slaughter (right end), J. Daspit (quarterback), Schoenberger (left halfback), Gourrier (right halfback), Nicholson (fullback).


1896 LSU Tigers football team, Game summaries, Texas
The Cadets defeated the Texas team 14–0. Sam Gourrier made the first touchdown around Texas' left end. The Times Picayune reported "The cadets are wild tonight over the victory".


1896 LSU Tigers football team, Game summaries, Southern A. C.
On a cold, dreary day, LSU defeated the Southern Athletic Club 6–0 to secure the state championship. LSU's Robertson got the deciding touchdown. Rain started to pour as soon as the game ended.


1896 LSU Tigers football team, Postseason
LSU and Pop Warner's Georgia team tied for the SIAA title. Harper's Weekly reported that, aside from the Tulane game, the season was a very clean one. LSU played no ineligible players, was never penalized for slugging, and never complained about the officiating.


1896 Lachlan colonial by-election
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of The Lachlan on 2 April 1896 because of the bankruptcy of James Carroll (Protectionist).


1896 Lafayette football team
The 1896 Lafayette football team represented Lafayette College in the sport of American football during the 1896 college football season. The team was retroactively selected as the co-national champion by two selectors, the National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis. Lafayette's national championship this season was one of the most surprising and dramatic in the early history of college football. Lafayette began its season by tying Princeton 0–0, the first tie in their series, and defeated West Virginia three times in three days by a combined score of 56–0.


1896 Lafayette football team
At 4–0–1, Lafayette was set to meet the Penn Quakers on October 24 at Franklin Field. Penn, coached by George Washington Woodruff, was in the midst of a 34-game winning streak and was only guaranteeing Lafayette $150 for a game that would net $10,000. As an intense media war surrounded the game, Lafayette enrolled Fielding H. Yost, a tackle from West Virginia, who Lafayette had defeated in the final game of their series on October 17. With Yost, Charles Rinehart, and the inventor of the football helmet George Barclay on the field, Lafayette won 6–4.


1896 Lafayette football team
It was the first victory of a "small school" over one of the Big Four (Harvard–Yale–Penn–Princeton). Penn won its next 31 games. Lafayette closed its season with an 18–6 win over Navy. Following the season, Lafayette was recognized as national champions along with Princeton (10–0–1) and was the first national champion outside the Harvard–Yale–Princeton–Penn rotation prevalent during that era. However, absent from their 1896 schedule was the annual rivalry with Lehigh, which cancelled two games scheduled for November in protest over the eligibility and amateur status of Barclay, who had played professional baseball the previous summer.


1896 Latrobe Athletic Association season
The 1897 Latrobe Athletic Association season was their second season in existence. The team finished 7-3-0.


1896 Lehigh football team
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1896 Lehigh football team
The 1896 Lehigh football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1896 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach L. N. Morris, the team compiled a 2–5 record and was outscored by a total of 130 to 80.


1896 Lichfield by-election
Fulford's election in 1895 was voided on petition on 19 December 1895 and a by-election ensued.


1896 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
The 1896 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the eighth staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 1887.


1896 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
On 22 November 1896, Caherline won the championship after a 2-06 to 2-01 defeat of Ballingarry in the final. It was their first championship title.


1896 Liverpool City Council election
Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on Monday 2 November 1896. One third of the council seats were up for election, the term of office of each councillor being three years.


1896 Liverpool City Council election, Ward results
Comparisons are made with the 1895 election results, as the retiring councillors were elected in that year.


1896 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.20 Great George, 20 November 1896
Caused by the death of Councillor Simeon Smith (Liberal, Great George elected 1 November 1895) on 28 October 1896.


1896 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 4, Fairfield, 16 March 1897
Caused by the death of Councillor Thomas Hewitson (Conservative, Fairfield, elected 1 November 1895) on 6 February 1897.


1896 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.10, Low Hill, 16 March 1897
Following a petition causing the election of Col. Charles Stewart Dean (Conservative)  on 2 November 1896 to be declared void.


1896 Los Angeles mayoral election
The 1896 election for Mayor of Los Angeles took place on December 7, 1896. Meredith P. Snyder was elected.


1896 Louisiana gubernatorial election
The 1896 Louisiana gubernatorial election was held on April 21, 1896. Like most Southern states between Reconstruction and the civil rights era, Louisiana's Republican Party was virtually nonexistent in terms of electoral support. As Louisiana had not yet adopted party primaries, this meant that the Democratic Party convention nomination vote was supposed to be the real contest over who would be governor. However, the Republicans and Populists put forward a joint candidate, John N. Pharr. With combined Republican and Populist support Pharr garnered 43% of the vote, although the Democratic nominee, Murphy J. Foster was elected with 57% of the vote.


1896 Louisville Colonels season
The 1896 Louisville Colonels baseball team finished with a 38–93 record and last place in the National League for the third straight season. The team set a Major League record which will never be broken by losing 5 games over the course of 2 days – a tripleheader on September 7, and a doubleheader on September 8.


1896 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1896 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1896 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1896 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1896 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1896 Manila mutiny
The 1896 Manila mutiny (Spanish: Motín de Manila) was a short uprising in a military installation in Manila, the capital and seat of the Spanish colonial Government in the Philippines. The skirmish was the only recorded incident of rebellion during the revolution that happened within the walls of Manila.


1896 Manila mutiny, Background
After the failed uprising by Andrés Bonifacio earlier in August, the Spanish government concentrated the majority of the Spanish-Native army in Manila against Bonifacio and his men, however, after barely a week of fighting, the Spanish army had successfully contained Bonifacio's campaign to mere hit-and-run raids on the hill towns of Montalban. The uprising in the surrounding provinces, particularly Cavite had caught the Spaniards' attention.


1896 Manila mutiny, Background, Battle of Binakayan
In November, 1896, Gov. General Ramon Blanco ordered a major offensive to stop the revolution in Cavite. The attack failed to even dent the province which was now firmly under rebel control. After the battle, a period of peace where townsfolk from all over southern Luzon escaped to Cavite, came to be known as "Ang Panahon ng Tagalog" or the Tagalog era.


1896 Manila mutiny, The mutiny
On the night of 5 December 1896, Corporal Cabrera De los Reyes and Bugler Protasio Añonuevo led the native conscripts from the 2nd Company of the 69th Regiment "Iberia" to attack their Spanish officers and capture the military installations around the walled city. However, due to poor planning, the mutineers were overpowered and De los Reyes and Añonuevo along with five of their men were captured. Actual fighting lasted barely an hour and the remaining mutineers surrendered themselves to the Spaniards.


1896 Manila mutiny, The mutiny, Katipunan connection
The motives of the mutiny are unclear, though it is said to have been inspired by the various uprisings across Luzon particularly that of Cavite, none of the members of the regiment were suspected of being Katipuneros (soldiers of the Katipunan secret society) and they were simply inspired to rise up for freedom by the said uprisings. The two leaders of the mutineers and five of their men were brought to court for rebellion and mutiny and were executed in Bagumbayan field on 26 December 1896.


1896 Manila mutiny, Aftermath
The rebellion was barely notable to Manila society, being only a small skirmish initiated by native troops. The mutineers were put under the first of the numerous executions at Bagumbayan, the most famous of which was that of Dr. Jose Rizal.


1896 Manitoba general election
The 1896 Manitoba general election was held on January 15, 1896. Sir Charles Tupper was voted into power for a term which would last only 68 days.


1896 Maryland Aggies football team
The 1896 Maryland Aggies football team represented the Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland) in the 1896 college football season. The team was led by first-year head coach Grenville Lewis and finished with a 6–2–2 record.


1896 Massachusetts Aggies football team
The 1896 Massachusetts Aggies football team represented Massachusetts Agricultural College in the 1896 college football season. The team played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. Massachusetts finished the season with a record of 0–4.