Modern Olympics (TRIH eps 80-81)
1896 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook explore the origins and early history of the modern Olympic movement. Drawing on David Goldblatt's The Games, they trace precursors from English local festivals such as the 1612 Cotswold events and the Much Wenlock Olympian Games founded by William Penny Brookes, to the influence of Pierre de Coubertin, who synthesized Victorian ideals of muscular Christianity and internationalism into a revived Olympic model. They recount eccentric episodes from early Olympi...
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Around 1896
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Dreyfus Affair (1894)
- Boxer Rebellion (1899)
- 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)