1896 CE

Walter Arnold, of East Peckham, Kent, England, is fined 1 shilling for speeding at 8 mph, exceeding the contemporary urban speed limit of 2 mph, the first speeding fine. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi embarks from Durban for Calcutta en route to Bombay. Sanriku earthquake: One of the most destructive seismic events in Japanese history. The 8.5 magnitude earthquake occurred at 19:32 (local time), approximately 166 km off the coast of Iwate Prefecture, Honshu. It resulted in two tsunamis which destroyed about 9,000 homes and caused at least 22,000 deaths. The waves reached a record height of 38.2 m; more than a meter lower than those created after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake which triggered the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

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1896 at a glance

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Geopolitics & Diplomacy

January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.source
March 8 – Crispi is succeeded by Antonio di Rudinì as Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior in a cabinet formed by the veteran Conservative, General Ricotti, who retains the Ministry of War.Italy source
May 13 – The Franchise Bill is passed by the Colony of Natal's Legislative Assembly, disfranchising natives of other countries.source
May 18 – Plessy v. Ferguson: The U.S. Supreme Court introduces the separate but equal doctrine, and upholds racial segregation.source
June 23 – Liberal leader Wilfrid Laurier defeats Charles Tupper during Canadian federal elections for the 8th Canadian Parliament, to become the first Francophone Prime Minister of Canada.source
25 June - Chilean presidential election, 1896Chile source
5 July – Belgian general election, 1896Belgium source
July 11 – Wilfrid Laurier becomes Canada's seventh prime minister, and the first French-speaker to hold that office.source
August 17 – Gold is discovered in the Yukon, prompting the Klondike gold rush.Canada source
August 27 – Britain establishes a Protectorate over the Ashanti people concluding the Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War.source
September 30 – Italy and France sign a treaty whereby Italy virtually recognizes Tunisia as a French dependency.source
November 3 – 1896 United States presidential election: Republican William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan. The event is viewed by some as a political realignment for the United States Republican Party.source
4 December: 1896 New Zealand general election.New Zealand source
France establishes an administrative post in Abengourou, Ivory Coast.source
New South Wales wins the Sheffield ShieldAustralia source
Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales becomes governor of São Paulo.Brazil source
By 1896, China showed interest in Aksai Chin, reportedly a result of Russian instigation.China source

Conflict & Security

January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end as Jameson surrenders to the Boers.source
January 6 – Cecil Rhodes is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope for his involvement in the Jameson Raid.source
January 6 – Cecil Rhodes is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony for his involvement in the Jameson Raid.South Africa source
January 17 – Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War: British redcoats enter the Ashanti capital, Kumasi, and Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I is deposed.source
January – Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War: British redcoats enter the Ashanti capital, Kumasi, and Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I is deposed.United Kingdom source
February 6–August 12 – Yaqui Uprising in Arizona and Mexico.United States source
March 1 – Battle of Adwa: Ethiopia defends its independence from Italy, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.source
March 1 – The Battle of Adwa between Ethiopia and Italy near the town of Adwa, Ethiopia, in Tigray. It was the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War, securing Ethiopian sovereignty and ending Italian attempts at its conquest for another three and a half decades. The Italians suffered about 7,000 killed and 1,500 wounded in the battle and subsequent retreat back into Eritrea, with 3,000 taken prisoner. Ethiopian losses have been estimated at around 4,000–5,000 killed and 8,000 wounded. When the news reached Italy, street demonstrations and rioting broke out in major cities.Italy source
May 30 – Khodynka Tragedy: a crowd crush at Khodynka Field in Moscow kills at least 1,200 of those marking the coronation year of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia.source
June 7 – Mahdist War: Battle of Ferkeh – British and Egyptian troops are victorious.source
August 23 – The Cry of Pugad Lawin initiates the Philippine Revolution.source
August 27 – The shortest war in recorded history, the Anglo-Zanzibar War, starts at 9:00 in the morning, and lasts for 45 minutes of shelling.source
November 9-11 – Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas with more than 6,000 soldiers attacked the revolutionaries under Emilio Aguinaldo, resulting to the simultaneous Battle of Binakayan and Battle of Dalahican. It was the first major Filipino victory during the Philippine Revolution.Philippines source
21 November - The War of Canudos begins with an attack by the small force led by Pires Ferreira. They are fiercely counter-attacked by a band of 500 armed men; the Brazilian force retreats, after incurring severe losses and killing 150 of the attackers, many of whom are armed only with machetes, primitive lances and axes.Brazil source
Dungan Revolt (1895–96), a rebellion of various Chinese Muslim ethnic groups in Qinghai and Gansu against the Qing dynastyChina source
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar ascends to the throne in May 1896 after the assassination of Naser al-Din Shah.Iran source

Exploration & Expansion

February — Russo-Chinese Bank, opened a Shanghai branch.China source
3 June – An expedition organised by the Royal Irish Academy leaves from Killybegs onboard the Congested Districts Board steamer Granuaile in order to study the island of Rockall. Irish naturalist Robert Lloyd Praeger is onboard, who later describes it in his 1937 memoir The Way That I Went. The group attempt to land twice, but due to bad weather have to cancel.Ireland source
June 5 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi embarks from Durban for Calcutta en route to Bombay.South Africa source
July 27 – A causeway is opened between the islands of Saaremaa and Muhu in Estonia.source
August 16 – Keish (often called Skookum Jim Mason), George Carmack, and Dawson Charlie discover gold in the Klondike, Yukon.source
2 November – Transvaal – Krugersdorp to Frederikstad, 52 mi.South Africa source
December 1 – Archaeologist Alois Anton Führer, Nepalese General Khadga Samsher Rana and an expedition rediscover the great stone pillar of Ashoka at Lumbini, traditionally the spot of the birthplace of Gautama Buddha, after using Faxian's records.source
Joshua Slocum sails Cape Horn solo on his globe-circling voyageCanada source
Pole vault – tie R. Hunter (Hawkes Bay) and H. Kingsley (Wanganui)New Zealand source
440 yards hurdles – J. Thomas Roberts (Auckland)New Zealand source
The BAA's first organised eclipse expeditionNorway source

Religion & Belief

March 29 – The Royal College of St Patrick, Maynooth in Ireland is granted the status of pontifical university by charter of the Holy See.source
13 April: National Council of Women of New Zealand is founded, with Kate Sheppard as its first president.New Zealand source
14 May – Parish of St Anthony of Padua established in newly expanded Heirnis section of Ghent.Belgium source
May 26 – Coronation of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna in the Dormition Cathedral, Moscow; this will be the last coronation of the Russian monarch. The Qing dynasty is represented at the coronation by Chinese official Li Hongzhang who through September goes on to visit Germany, Britain, Canada and the United States.source
May 26 - founding of Oruro RoyalBolivia source
July 21 – In Washington, D.C., in response to a "call to confer" issued by Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin to all women of color, the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs is organized.source
15 September – Pope Leo XIII issues the papal bull Apostolicae curae, declaring all Anglican ordinations to be "absolutely null and utterly void".United Kingdom source
Pope Leo XIII is filmed, making him the first ever Pope to be filmed and the earliest-born person to be captured on film. (Note: to view the event in the video above, go to timestamp 3:07)source
Pierre Louÿs - Aphrodite: mœurs antiquesFrance source
Monarch – Umberto I (1878–1900)Italy source
The Swedish National Council of Women is founded by Ellen Fries.Sweden source
Bishop of Menevia, John Cuthbert Hedley, is one of a group of Roman Catholic bishops who successfully petition Pope Leo XIII to lift the ban on Catholic students attending British universities, providing that the universities agreed to allow Catholic professors to teach theology and history, "with such exhaustiveness and soundness that the minds of the young men may be effectively fortified against errors".Wales source

Economy & Finance

March 9 – Responding to national outrage at the defeat at Adwa, Italian Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns.source
28 March – Tom Gallaher incorporates the Gallaher tobacco business and opens the world's largest tobacco factory in Belfast.Ireland source
May 13 – The Franchise Bill is passed by Natal's Legislative Assembly, disfranchising natives of other countries.South Africa source
May 26 – Eleven years after its foundation, a group of 12 purely industrial stocks are chosen to form the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the U.S. The index is composed entirely of industrial shares for the first time.source
July 14 – Di Rudini reforms his Cabinet, getting support from Giovanni Giolitti and Giuseppe Zanardelli. Luigi Luzzatti becomes Minister of the Treasury and Luigi Pelloux Minister of War.Italy source
July 26 – The International Socialist Workers and Trade Union Congress opens in London.source
26 July–1 August – International Socialist Workers and Trade Union Congress held in London.United Kingdom source
July: The Waikato Times and Waikato Advocate merge, and the former moves to daily publication.New Zealand source
August 1 – The Park Seung-jik shop, predecessor of South Korean conglomerate Doosan Group, is founded in Joseon (the kingdom of Korea).source
September 28 – Pathé Frères, a French film company and one of the oldest film companies, is founded by the brothers Charles Pathé, Théophile Pathé, Émile Pathé and Jacques Pathé.source
28 September – Pathé Frères, one of the oldest film companies, is founded by the brothers Charles, Théophile, Émile and Jacques Pathé.France source
November 21 - The Hamburg dockworkers' strike of 1896-97 is considered one of the largest labour disputes in the German Empire.source
December 28 – Nippon Flower Mills (Nipun) was founded.Japan source
The Famous Grouse Scotch whisky first blended by Matthew Gloag & Son of Perth.Scotland source

Technology & Infrastructure

June 4 – The Ford Quadricycle, the first vehicle developed by Henry Ford, is completed, eventually leading Ford to build the empire that "put America on wheels".source
June 18 – The New York Telephone Company is formed, succeeding the Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Company, to control telephone service within New York City.source
August 14 – The Uganda Railway Act, 1896, is approved in the United Kingdom, for construction of a railway in Africa from Mombasa to Lake Victoria.source
August 28 — The Chinese government partnered with the Russo-Chinese Bank to construct the China Eastern Railway. The bank was renamed Sino-Russian Righteousness Victory Bank (Traditional Chinese: 華俄道勝銀行).China source
October 1 – Gottlieb Daimler builds the first gasoline truck.source
December 14 – The Glasgow Subway, the third-oldest underground metro system in the world, opens.source
A school of mines opens in Kimberley and will form the core of the University of the Witwatersrand.source
The first Canadian blast furnace opens in Hamilton, Ontario.Canada source
Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEKFinland source
Gottlieb Daimler produces the first gasoline truck.Germany source
Dagskrá – Reykjavík, Icelands first newspaper begins publication.Iceland source
Unknown date – Penta-Ocean construction company foundedJapan source
The Waikato Argus starts publication. The newspaper runs until 1915.New Zealand source
The first of a second batch of fifty 6th Class 4-6-0 steam locomotives. In 1912 they would be designated Class 6A on the South African Railways (SAR).South Africa source

Science & Discovery

January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery, last November, of a type of electromagnetic radiation, later known as X-rays.source
January 12 – H. L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph.source
14 January – Acres demonstrates his Kineopticon to the Royal Photographic Society at the Queen's Hall in London.United Kingdom source
April – Svante Arrhenius first publishes the "greenhouse law", becoming the first person to predict that emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other combustion processes are large enough to cause global warming through the greenhouse effect.source
24 September – William Frost flies his Frost Airship Glider for the only time.Wales source
German physicist Wilhelm Wien derives the Wien approximation.Germany source
Unknown date – Kotaro Mikamo reports the first results of a double-eyelid procedure for aesthetic purposes.Japan source
250 yards – W. Kingston (Otago)New Zealand source
100 yards – E. Robinson (Canterbury)New Zealand source
A new Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, is established on Blackford Hill, replacing that on Calton Hill, under the auspices of Ralph Copeland, Astronomer Royal for Scotland.Scotland source
Owen Morgan Edwards – Cartrefi CymruWales source

Health & Medicine

March 23 – The New York State Legislature passes the Raines Law, restricting Sunday alcoholic beverage sales to hotels.United States source
15 April – Law on the making and importation of alcohol replaces duty on the capacity of distillery equipment (adopted in 1833) with a duty on the proportional alcohol content of the distilled product.Belgium source
May 11 – Edmund Flynn becomes Premier of Quebec, replacing Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon.Canada source
1 June – Institut für Serumforschung und Serumprüfung in Berlin is opened.Germany source
August – The 1896 Eastern North America heat wave kills 1,500 people from Chicago, Illinois to Boston, Massachusetts.source
30 September–August 1897: Lock-out of Welsh slate workers at Penrhyn Quarry.United Kingdom source
December 18 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi arrives back in Durban with his wife and two sons, but the ship is placed under a 5-day quarantine because Bombay was declared a plague-infected port. Quarantine will later be extended to 13 January 1897.South Africa source
The pharmaceutical and healthcare company Hoffmann-La Roche in Switzerland comes wholly under the control of Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche.source
Bombay plague epidemic killed thousandsIndia source
Census measures national population as 743,214.New Zealand source

Crime & Justice

January 28 – Walter Arnold, of East Peckham, Kent, England, is fined 1 shilling for speeding at 8 mph, exceeding the contemporary urban speed limit of 2 mph, the first speeding fine.source
March 13 – As the result of a pardon recognizing the excessive brutality of the repression of the Fasci Siciliani 120 prisoners are released, including the leaders of the movement Giuseppe de Felice Giuffrida, Rosario Garibaldi Bosco, Nicola Barbato and Bernardino Verro.Italy source
7 April – Viggo Jensen wins a gold medal in Men's two hand lift and a bronze medal in Men's one hand lift wrestling.Denmark source
25 April – Murder of Delphina-Angelica Borée in Brussels.Belgium source
September 15 – The Crash at Crush train wreck stunt is held in Texas.source
November 30 – "St. Augustine Monster": A large carcass, later postulated to be the remains of a gigantic octopus, is found washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida.source
November 30 – The St. Augustine Monster, a large carcass later postulated to be the remains of a gigantic octopus, is found washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida.United States source
Free Exhibitions, a free art exhibition, opened.Finland source
Long jump – Leonard Cuff (Canterbury)New Zealand source
Charles Rennie Mackintosh produces stencilled friezes for Catherine Cranston's Buchanan Street tearooms in Glasgow.Scotland source
David Jenkins – Four Welsh AirsWales source

Disasters & Accidents

13 February - The Capsize of the ferry Pearl on the Brisbane River, killing 28Australia source
February 19 – Braamfontein Explosion: A train carrying 56 tons of dynamite explodes at Braamfontein, Johannesburg, killing more than 78 people.source
February 19 – A train carrying 56 tons of dynamite explodes at Braamfontein, Johannesburg, killing more than 78 people.South Africa source
26 March: Brunner Mine disaster; 65 miners killed in explosionNew Zealand source
6 April – The Snowdon Mountain Railway commences public operation. On the first trip down the mountain, locomotive No.1 "Ladas" with two carriages loses the rack and is derailed. A passenger dies after jumping from the carriage. The second train down collides with the wreckage of the first; services are suspended for a year.Wales source
30 April – Peckfield Colliery disaster in Micklefield, Yorkshire: an underground explosion kills 63 men and boys and 19 pit ponies.United Kingdom source
May 26 – A bridge collapse in Victoria, British Columbia kills 55 people.Canada source
June 28 – Twin Shaft disaster: An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.source
June 28 – Twin Shaft Disaster: An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 coal miners.United States source
July 30 – Atlantic City rail crash: Shortly after 6:30 pm, at a crossing just west of Atlantic City, New Jersey, two trains collide, crushing five loaded passenger coaches, killing 50 and seriously injuring approximately sixty.source
August 17 – Bridget Driscoll is run over by a Benz car on the grounds of The Crystal Palace, London, the world's first motoring fatality.source
October 4 – A locomotive in Bulawayo explodes and kills ten prisoners.source
Nya smedjegården is closed and demolished.Sweden source

Climate & Environment

March 4 – The government of Prime Minister Francesco Crispi collapsed after the humiliating defeat of the Italian army at Adwa in Ethiopia during First Italo-Ethiopian War amidst Italian disenchantment with "foreign adventures".Italy source
May 27 – St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado: The costliest and third deadliest tornado in U.S. history levels a mile wide swath of downtown St. Louis, Missouri, incurring US$2.9 billion (1997 USD) in normalized damages, killing more than 255 and injuring over 1,000 people.source
May 27 – 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado: The costliest and third deadliest tornado in U.S. history levels a mile wide swath of downtown St. Louis, Missouri, incurring over $10,000,000 in damages at contemporaneous prices, killing more than 255 and injuring over 1,000 people.United States source
June 12 – J. T. Hearne sets a record for the earliest date of taking 100 wickets in cricket, in England (it is equalled by Charlie Parker in 1931).source
June 15 – The 8.5 Mw Sanriku earthquake and tsunami kills 22,000 in northeastern Japan.source
June 15 – Sanriku earthquake: One of the most destructive seismic events in Japanese history. The 8.5 magnitude earthquake occurred at 19:32 (local time), approximately 166 km off the coast of Iwate Prefecture, Honshu. It resulted in two tsunamis which destroyed about 9,000 homes and caused at least 22,000 deaths. The waves reached a record height of 38.2 m; more than a meter lower than those created after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake which triggered the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.Japan source
17 December – Hereford earthquake.United Kingdom source
A famine started in Bundelkhand and continued into 1897India source

Culture & Society

January 7 – American culinary expert Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook.source
7 January – Official founding of the Belgian Automobile Club.Belgium source
January 16 – Devonport High School for Boys is founded in Plymouth (England).source
February 1 – Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème premieres in Turin, Italy.source
February 11 – Oscar Wilde's play Salomé (1891) has its stage premiere (while Wilde is in prison) in its original French in Paris.source
March 3 – Publication begins for Der Eigene, the world's first magazine with an orientation to male homosexuality, by Adolf Brand in Berlin.source
March 19 – Dvořák's Cello Concerto premieres, in London.source
April 3 – The first European sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport was first published allowing it to cover the first modern 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.Italy source
April 4 – The first known women's basketball game between two colleges is played between Stanford and California.source
April 6 – The opening ceremonies of the 1896 Summer Olympics, the first modern Olympic Games, are held in Athens, Greece.source
April 9 – The National Farm School (later Delaware Valley College) is chartered in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.source
12 April – German football club Hannover 96 is founded.Germany source
April 23 – Blackpool Pleasure Beach, a popular English theme park ("Britain's Biggest Tourist Attraction"), is founded by Alderman William George Bean.source
May 8 – Cricket: Against Warwickshire, Yorkshire sets a still-standing County Championship record in England, when they accumulate an innings total of 887.source
July 9 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech at the Democratic National Convention, which nominates him for president of the United States.source
September 2 – Clarkson University holds its first classes, with 17 students attending in Potsdam, New York.source
3 September - Nearly 13,176 members of Ezhava community led by Padmanabhan Palpu submits a petition for rights named Ezhava Memorial before Moolam Thirunal of Travancore.India source
September 22 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest-reigning monarch in British history up to this time.source
October 2 – The Victorian Football League is established as Australian rules football in Australia (a predecessor of the Australian Football League).source
13 October: First public screening of a motion picture in New Zealand, in Auckland.New Zealand source
October 30 – The Augusta High School cornerstone is laid in Augusta, Kentucky, marking the end of the Augusta Methodist College.source
3 November – Newhaven wins the Melbourne Cup - the first horse-racing films produced in Australia.Australia source
November 27 – Richard Strauss's orchestral tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra is first performed, in Frankfurt, conducted by the composer.source
November 30 – Udinese Calcio Association football club is founded in Udine, Italy.source
December 10 – The premiere of Alfred Jarry's absurdist play Ubu Roi in Paris causes a near-riot.source
December 25 – John Philip Sousa composes The Stars and Stripes Forever which will become the national march of the United States.source
South Africa's first school of mines is opened in Kimberley. It will later form the core of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.South Africa source
Racing Club de Lyon, a football club in France, is officially founded and becomes a predecessor of Olympique Lyonnais.source
1896 World Figure Skating ChampionshipsRussia source

Births

April 27 – Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player (died 1963)source
28 April – Tristan Tzara, avant-garde poet and essayist (died 1963).Romania source
May 1 – Mark W. Clark, American general (died 1984)source
May 2 – Helen of Greece and Denmark, Queen Mother of Romania (died 1982)source
May 30 – Howard Hawks, American director (died 1977)source
June 19 – Wallis Simpson, American-born Duchess of Windsor (died 1986)source
July 5 – Thomas Playford IV, South Australian politician (died 1981)source
August 9 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (died 1980)source
August 14 – Albert Ball, British World War I fighter ace, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1917)source
19 August - Vilho Niittymaa, athlete (died 1979)Finland source
August 28 – Arthur Calwell, Australian politician (died 1973)source
September 1 – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religious leader, founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (died 1977)source
September 24 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (died 1940)source
October 7 – Paulino Alcántara, international footballer (died 1964)Philippines source
November 13 – Nobusuke Kishi, Prime Minister of Japan (died 1987)source
November 13 – Nobusuke Kishi, politician and Prime Minister of Japan (died 1987)Japan source
November 16 – Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists (died 1980)source
December 14 – Jimmy Doolittle, American aviation pioneer, World War II United States Army Air Forces general (died 1993)source

Deaths

January 26 – James Edwin Campbell, American educator, school administrator, newspaper editor, poet, and essayist (born 1867)source
April 27 – Sir Henry Parkes, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales (born 1815)source
May 1 – Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia, King of Herat (born 1831)source
May 1 – Naser al-Din Shah Qajar is assassinated by Mirza Reza Kermani while visiting and praying at Shah Abdol-Azim Shrine.Iran source
May 7 – H. H. Holmes, American serial killer (executed) (born 1861)source
10 May - Antti Ahlström, businessman, founder of Ahlstrom Corporation, 68Finland source
May 20 – Clara Schumann, German composer, pianist (born 1819)source
July 1 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (born 1811)source
July 4 – Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino writer, journalist (born 1850)source
October 3 – William Morris, English designer, poet and political activist (born 1834)source
October 6 – Sir James Abbott, British army officer and colonial administrator in India (born 1807)source
October 11 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (born 1824)source
October 23 – Columbus Delano, American statesman (born 1809)source
November 23 – Ichiyō Higuchi, writer (born 1872)Japan source
December 10 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite, creator of the Nobel Prize (born 1833)source
December 30 – José Rizal, Filipino scholar and poet, is executed by Spanish authorities in the Philippines.source
December 30 – José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines (born 1861)source
December 30 - José Rizal, author and poet, national hero of the Philippines (born 1861)Philippines source