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| 1896 |
| | | Theodor Herzl publishes The Jewish State, calling for a national homeland for all Jews | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Britain unites Buganda and three other kingdoms into the single Uganda Protectorate | |
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| 1896 |
| | | The first modern Olympic Games, organized by Pierre de Coubertin, are held in Athens | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Otto Lilienthal dies when a wing fractures on his glider and he crashes from a height of 17 metres | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Jean Sibelius's 'symphonic legend' The Swan of Tuonela has its premiere in Helsinki | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Reports of gold in what becomes known as Bonanza Creek, a tributary of the Klondike, prompt a massive gold rush into the Yukon | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Italy, one of the local colonial powers, accepts Ethiopia's claim to the Ogaden region of the Somali territory | |
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| 1896 |
| | | English poet A.E. Housman publishes his first collection, A Shropshire Lad | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull has a disastrous premiere in St Petersburg (but is well received two years later in Moscow) | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Republican candidate William McKinley wins the US presidential election, defeating Democrat William Jennings Bryan | |
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| 1896 |
| | | 22-year-old Guglielmo Marconi takes out a patent in Britain for the invention of radio | |
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| 1897 |
| | | The Spanish governor in Cuba is recalled to Spain, for pioneering the concept of the concentration camp | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Jewish composer Gustav Mahler is baptized a Christian so as to be eligible to conduct the Vienna Opera | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Zululand, annexed by Britain in 1887, is now merged with the colony of Natal | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Paul Kruger, prime minister of the Transvaal, forms an alliance with the other Boer republic, the Orange Free State | |
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| 1897 |
| | | English physicist Joseph John Thomson, working at the Cavendish laboratory in Cambridge, discovers the existence of the electron | |
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| 1897 |
| | | The UK colonial secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, appoints enthusiastic imperialist Alfred Milner as high commissioner in South Africa | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Henry James views the feckless adults in Maisie's life through the eyes of the child herself in What Maisie Knew | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Germany claims Ruanda and Urundi as a joint colony adjacent to German East Africa | |
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| 1897 |
| | | The French exile the queen of Madagascar and claim the island as a French colony | |
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| 1897 |
| | | The British burn Benin City in a punitive expedition after members of a British delegation are murdered | |
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| 1897 |
| | | The first Zionist Congress is held in Basel with Theodor Herzl in the chair | |
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| c. 1897 |
| | | Diamond Jubilee bonfires and fireworks all round Briain celebrate Victoria's sixty years on the throne | |
|  | Diamond Jubilee Address from Adelaide in 1897
National Archives, Kew
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| 1897 |
| | | Turbinia, powered by the newly invented Parsons steam turbine, breaks the speed record when Queen Victoria reviews her fleet | |
|  | The Turbinia
Discovery Museum, Tyne and Wear
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| 1897 |
| | | Somerset Maugham publishes his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, based on the London life he has observed as a medical student | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Adolph Ochs, a new proprietor of The New York Times, coins the slogan 'All the News That's Fit to Print' | |
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| 1897 |
| | | English author Bram Stoker publishes Dracula, his gothic tale of vampirism in Transylvania | |
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| 1897 |
| | | British physician Ronald Ross identifies the Anopheles mosquito as the carrier of malaria | |
|  | Anopheles mosquito
Wellcome Photo Library
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| 1897 |
| | | Rachmaninov's First Symphony has a disastrous premiere in St Petersburg, probably caused by the incompetence of Glazunov as conductor | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Germany passes the first of four Fleet Acts, reflecting the determination of Alfred von Tirpitz to build a navy equal to that of Britain | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Émile Zola sends an open letter to the French president, headed 'J'accuse!', drawing attention to the injustice done to Alfred Dreyfus | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Charlotte Perkins Gilman publishes Women and Economics, developing the feminist theme in US cultural and political life | |
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| 1898 |
| | | The National Consumers' League, headed by Florence Kelley, fights for improved conditions in the US factories making consumer goods | |
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