Editing 1896 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[Gottlieb Daimler]] builds the first gasoline truck.
* [[October 2]] &ndash; The [[Victorian Football League]] is established as [[Australian rules football]] in Australia (a predecessor of the [[Australian Football League]]).
* [[October 30]] &ndash; The Augusta High School cornerstone is laid in [[Augusta, Kentucky]], marking the end of the [[Augusta Methodist College]].
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[1896 United States presidential election]]: Republican [[William McKinley]] defeats [[William Jennings Bryan]]. The event is viewed by some as a [[political realignment]] for the [[History of the United States Republican Party#The Progressive Era: 1896–1932|United States Republican Party]]. 
* [[November 27]] &ndash; [[Richard Strauss]]'s orchestral tone poem ''[[Also sprach Zarathustra]]'' is first performed, in [[Frankfurt]], conducted by the composer. 
* [[November 30]]
** [[Udinese Calcio]] Association football club is founded in Udine, Italy.
** "[[St. Augustine Monster]]": A large carcass, later postulated to be the remains of a [[gigantic octopus]], is found washed ashore near [[St. Augustine, Florida]].
* [[December 1]] &ndash; 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.<ref>Alois Anton Führer, ''Monograph on Buddha Sakyamuni's Birth-Place in the Nepalese Taral'' (Allahabad: The Government Press, 1897) p28.</ref>
* [[December 10]] 
**[[New York Aquarium]] opens.
**The premiere of [[Alfred Jarry]]'s absurdist play ''[[Ubu Roi]]'' in Paris causes a near-riot.
* [[December 14]] &ndash; The [[Glasgow Subway]], the third-oldest [[rapid transit|underground metro]] system in the world, opens.
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[John Philip Sousa]] composes ''[[The Stars and Stripes Forever]]'' which will become the national march of the United States.
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[José Rizal]], Filipino scholar and poet, is [[executed]] by Spanish authorities in the Philippines.