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| 1895 |
| | | A promenade concert, presented by Henry Wood in London's Queen's Hall, turns out to be the beginning of a very long tradition | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Utah is admitted to the union as the 45th state, after the Mormons agree to give up polygamy | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Cecil Rhodes' involvement with the Jameson raid forces his resignation as the Cape Colony prime minister | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème has an unsuccessful premiere in Turin | |
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| 1896 |
| | | The prolific US poet Edwin Arlington Robinson publishes The Torrent and the Night Before, his first poems about the fictional Tilbury Town | |
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| 1896 |
| | | The Ethiopian emperor, Menelik II, inflicts a shattering defeat on Italian forces at Aduwa | |
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| 1896 |
| | | The US Supreme Court rules in Plessey v. Ferguson that it is legal for a state to provide 'separate but equal' facilities for blacks | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Canada's first French-speaking and Roman Catholic premier, Wilfrid Laurier, wins the first of four consecutive spells as premier | |
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| 1896 |
| | | French physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel discovers in uranium salt the phenomenon of natural radioactivity | |
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| 1896 |
| | | US engineer Henry Ford test drives his first four-wheel internal-combustion vehicle, the Quadricycle, built in a coal shed behind his home | |
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