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 1896 - 1897 (1 years)
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| 1 | 1896 | - 1896: Vienna, Austria - Sigmund Freud suggested analyzing childhood conflicts in the study of neuroses. He also devised a psychoanalytic technique called free association which allows emotionally-charged, repressed material to be consciously recognized
- 1896: Sudan - British conquest of the Sudan begins
- 1896: USA - Lightner Witmer establishes at the University of Pennsylvania a clinic of psychology, the first psychological clinic in America and perhaps in the world
- 1896: UK - Items considered luxuries in 1837 are now common comforts; food, clothing, bedding, furniture, are all far more abundant; gas and oil lighting being replaced by electricity; seaside holidays no longer rare
- 1896: UK - Howard publishes Garden Cities of Tomorrow, forerunner of modern city planning
- 1896: York, UK - Seebohm Rowntree (of chocolate fame) studies poor, determines poverty due to inadequate wages, not shiftlessness
- 1896: USA - American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
- 1896: CA - A plan to populate the western prairies with immigration from eastern Europe is unveiled
- 1896: CA - The first Canadian blast furnace opens in Hamilton, Ontario
- 1896: NL - NL - Notaris Baccx rijdt als eerste in Nederland met een eigen auto.
- 26 May 1896: CA - a bridge collapse in Victoria, British Columbia kills 55 people
- 17 Aug 1896: CA - Gold is discovered in the Yukon, prompting the Klondike gold rush
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| 2 | 1897 | - 1897: UK - Queen Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee
- 1897: USA - Telephone penetration in US is 7 per 1,000 people
- 1897: USA - William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
- 1897: NL - Coevorden aangesloten op het Overijsselse tramnet.
- 29 Jan 1897: CA - The Victorian Order of Nurses is founded in Ottawa and created as a gift for Queen Victoria for the purposes of home care and social services.
- 2 Feb 1897: CA - Clara Brett Martin becomes the first woman allowed to practice law in Ontario
- 19 Feb 1897: CA - World's first Women's Institute founded in Stoney Creek, Ontario
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