Editing 1896 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 9]] &ndash; [[William Jennings Bryan]] delivers his [[Cross of Gold speech]] at the [[Democratic National Convention]], which nominates him for president of the United States.
* [[July 11]] &ndash; [[Wilfrid Laurier]] becomes Canada's seventh [[Prime Minister of Canada|prime minister]], and the first French-speaker to hold that office.
* [[July 21]] &ndash; 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.
* [[July 26]] &ndash; The [[International Socialist Workers and Trade Union Congress, London 1896|International Socialist Workers and Trade Union Congress]] opens in London.
* [[July 27]] &ndash; A [[causeway]] is opened between the islands of [[Saaremaa]] and [[Muhu]] in [[Estonia]].
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[1896 Atlantic City rail crash|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.
* [[August]] &ndash; The [[1896 Eastern North America heat wave]] kills 1,500 people from Chicago, Illinois to Boston, Massachusetts.
* [[August 1]] &ndash; The Park Seung-jik shop, predecessor of [[South Korea]]n [[Conglomerate (company)|conglomerate]] [[Doosan Group]], is founded in [[Joseon]] (the kingdom of Korea).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.doosan.com/file/down/c36cb633-3d12-406f-a346-998077874454|title=History|publisher=Doosan Group|access-date=2024-07-10|archive-date=2017-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170509033901/http://www.doosan.com/en/intro/history.jsp|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[August 14]] &ndash; The [[Uganda Railway]] Act, 1896, is approved in the United Kingdom, for construction of a railway in Africa from [[Mombasa]] to [[Lake Victoria]].<ref>''The Law Journal Reports for the Year 1896'' (Stevens and Sons, Ltd., 1896), Volume 65, p247.</ref>
* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[Skookum Jim Mason]], [[George Carmack]] and Dawson Charlie discover [[gold]] in the [[Klondike, Yukon]].
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[Bridget Driscoll]] is run over by a [[Benz & Cie.|Benz]] car on the grounds of [[The Crystal Palace]], London, the world's first motoring fatality.
* [[August 23]] &ndash; The [[Cry of Pugad Lawin]] initiates the [[Philippine Revolution]].
* [[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.
** Britain establishes a Protectorate over the [[Ashanti people]] concluding the [[Anglo-Ashanti wars#Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War, 1895 - 1896|Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War]].
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Clarkson University]] holds its first classes, with 17 students attending in [[Potsdam (village), New York|Potsdam, New York]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nyheritage.nnyln.net/cdm/singleitem/collection/clarkson/id/124|title=Clarkson Estate|access-date=July 16, 2015|archive-date=July 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717011717/http://nyheritage.nnyln.net/cdm/singleitem/collection/clarkson/id/124|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[September 15]] &ndash; The [[Crush, Texas|Crash at Crush]] train wreck stunt is held in Texas.
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Queen Victoria]] surpasses her grandfather [[George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]] as the longest-reigning monarch in British history up to this time.
* [[September 28]] &ndash; [[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.
* [[September 30]]
** Italy and France sign a treaty whereby Italy virtually recognizes [[Tunisia]] as a French dependency.<ref>Iiams, Thomas M. (1962). ''Dreyfus, Diplomatists and the Dual Alliance: Gabriel Hanotaux at the Quai D'Orsay (1894–1898)'', Geneva/Paris: Librairie Droz/Librairie Minard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=dgObEERSxvQC&pg=PA115 p. 115]</ref>
** [[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.<ref name=Ferro/>