Modern Olympics (TRIH eps 80-81)
1896–1936 · Resource
A two-part series on the modern Olympic movement: its precursors, from the Cotswold games to Much Wenlock, and Pierre de Coubertin's revival, then the Games from austere post-war London in 1948 into the Cold War era.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1896
- Boxer Rebellion (1899)
- Dreyfus Affair (1894)
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Pop music: the 1900s (1900)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Einstein's miracle year (Annus Mirabilis) (1905)
- Reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II (1888)