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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