 thumb|220px|a carved date from a building in stamford    __notoc__ year 1896 (mdcccxcvi) was a leap year starting on wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on monday of the 12-day slower julian calendar. == events == === january&ndash;march ===   * january &ndash; fourth anglo-ashanti war: british redcoats enter the ashanti capital, kumasi, and asantehene agyeman prempeh i is deposed. *january 2 &ndash; the jameson raid comes to an end, as jameson surrenders to the boers. * january 4 &ndash; utah is admitted as the 45th u.s. state. * january 5 &ndash; an austrian newspaper reports that wilhelm rÃ¶ntgen has discovered a type of radiation later known as x-rays. * january 7 &ndash; fannie farmer publishes her first cookbook. * january 12 &ndash; h.l. smith takes the first x-ray photograph. * january 18 &ndash; the x-ray machine is exhibited for the first time. * january 28 &ndash; walter arnold, of east peckham, kent, england, is fined 1 shilling for speeding at  (exceeding the contemporary speed limit of ), the first speeding fine. * february 1 &ndash; puccini's opera la bohÃ¨me premieres in turin, italy. * february 4 &ndash; international association of bridge and structural iron workers is established in pittsburgh. * february 11 &ndash; oscar wilde's play salomÃ© premieres in paris. * march 1 &ndash; battle of adwa: ethiopia defends its independence from italy, ending the first italo-ethiopian war. * march 3 &ndash; publication begins of the world's first magazine with an orientation to male homosexuality, der eigene, by adolf brand in berlin. * march 9 &ndash; responding to national outrage at the defeat at adwa, italian prime minister francesco crispi resigns. * march 23
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