Editing 1896 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
[[File:Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845--1923).jpg|thumb|120px|right| [[January 5]]: [[Wilhelm Röntgen|Röntgen]] [[X-ray|rays]].]]
[[File:X-ray by Wilhelm Röntgen of Albert von Kölliker's hand - 18960123-02.jpg|thumb|120px|right| [[January 5]]: [[Wilhelm Röntgen|Röntgen]] [[X-ray]].]]
* [[January 2]] &ndash; The [[Jameson Raid]] comes to an end as Jameson surrenders to the [[Boer]]s.<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=324–325|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Utah]] is admitted as the 45th [[U.S. state]].
* [[January 5]] &ndash; An Austrian newspaper reports [[Wilhelm Röntgen]]'s discovery, last November, of a type of [[electromagnetic radiation]], later known as [[X-ray]]s.
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Cecil Rhodes]] is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the [[Cape Colony|Cape of Good Hope]] for his involvement in the [[Jameson Raid]].
* [[January 7]] &ndash; American culinary expert [[Fannie Farmer]] publishes her first cookbook.
* [[January 12]] &ndash; H. L. Smith takes the first [[X-ray]] photograph.
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Devonport High School for Boys]] is founded in [[Plymouth]] (England).
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Anglo-Ashanti wars#Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War (1895–1896)|Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War]]: British [[British Army|redcoats]] enter the [[Ashanti people|Ashanti]] capital, [[Kumasi]], and Asantehene Agyeman [[Prempeh I]] is deposed.<ref>"Ashanti Expedition (1895-1896)", in ''The Victorians at War, 1815-1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History'', by Harold E. Raugh (ABC-CLIO, 2004) p30.</ref>
* [[January 28]] &ndash; Walter Arnold, of [[East Peckham]], [[Kent]], England, is fined 1 shilling for [[speeding]] at {{convert|8|mph|km/h|abbr=on}}, exceeding the contemporary urban [[speed limit]] of {{convert|2|mph|km/h|abbr=on}}, the first speeding fine.
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Giacomo Puccini|Puccini]]'s opera ''[[La bohème]]'' premieres in [[Turin]], Italy.
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Oscar Wilde]]'s play ''[[Salome (play)|Salomé]]'' (1891) has its stage premiere (while Wilde is in prison) in its original French in Paris.
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Braamfontein Explosion]]: A train carrying 56 tons of [[dynamite]] explodes at [[Braamfontein]], [[Johannesburg]], killing more than 78 people.<ref name="Blumberg">''The Great Dynamite Explosion'', report by J.G. Blumberg, Fairmount School, Johannesburg, excerpt from the autobiography of Dutch immigrant Jan de Veer who came to South Africa in 1893.</ref>
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Battle of Adwa]]: [[Ethiopia]] defends its independence from Italy, ending the [[First Italo-Ethiopian War]].
* [[March 3]] &ndash; Publication begins for ''[[Der Eigene]]'', the world's first magazine with an orientation to male [[homosexuality]], by [[Adolf Brand]] in Berlin.
* [[March 9]] &ndash; Responding to national outrage at the defeat at Adwa, Italian Prime Minister [[Francesco Crispi]] resigns.
* [[March 29]] &ndash; The [[St Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth|Royal College of St Patrick, Maynooth]] in Ireland is granted the status of [[pontifical university]] by charter of the [[Holy See]].<ref>Rescripts of the Sacred Congregation ''de Propaganda Fide''.</ref>