Events
- 26 March: Brunner Mine disaster; 65 miners killed in explosion
- 13 April: National Council of Women of New Zealand is founded, with Kate Sheppard as its first president.
- 13 October: First public screening of a motion picture in New Zealand, in Auckland.
- 4 December: New Zealand general election, 1896.
- Undated
- Census measures national population as 743,214.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“By many a legendary tale of violence and wrong, as well as by events which have passed before their eyes, these people have been taught to look upon white men with abhorrence.... I can sympathize with the spirit which prompts the Typee warrior to guard all the passes to his valley with the point of his levelled spear, and, standing upon the beach, with his back turned upon his green home, to hold at bay the intruding European.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)