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1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1896th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 896th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1890s decade.
The 1896 Summer Olympics, [2] officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad ( Greek: Αγώνες της 1ης Ολυμπιάδας, romanized : Agónes tis 1is Olympiádas) and commonly known as Athens 1896 ( Greek: Αθήνα 1896 ), was the first international Olympic Games held in modern history. Organised by the International Olympic ...
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- Athens, Greece
- 43 in 9 sports
- Panathenaic Stadium
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The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, were held at Athens in Greece. [2] The games took place from April 6 to 15, 1896. It was the first international Olympic Games held in the Modern era. As Ancient Greece was the birthplace of the Olympic Games, Athens was an appropriate choice to stage the inaugural ...
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- 43 in 9 sports
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October 30 – Augusta, Kentucky: The Augusta High School cornerstone is laid, marking the end of the Augusta Methodist College. November 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1896: Republican William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan. This is later regarded as a realigning election, starting the Fourth Party System in which Republicans ...
1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1896th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 896th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1896, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar ...
The Modern Olympic Games began with an Opening Ceremony on 25 March 1896, or 6 April 1896, depending on whether or not one used the Julian Calendar (then used in Greece) or the more modern Gregorian Calendar, used by most of the world in 1896, and to this day. The first event of the modern Olympics was the first heat of the 100 metres, won by ...
United States at the1896 Summer Olympics. Fourteen competitors from the United States competed in three sports at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The Americans were the most successful athletes in terms of gold medals, beating host nation Greece, 11 to 10, despite fielding only 14 competitors compared to an estimated 169 Greek entrants.
