A year in the life: 1896

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Month

Day

Event

Source of information

Notes

January

No days

Pitt-Rivers excavating Martin Down

Thompson, 1977: 127; Bowden, 1991: 138

 

February

No days

Pitt-Rivers excavating Martin Down

Thompson, 1977: 127; Bowden, 1991: 138

 

[Spring]

No days

Pitt-Rivers establishes the Rushmore-Larmer golf links for the public

Pitt-Rivers guide to the golf links

 

March

No days

Pitt-Rivers excavating Martin Down

Thompson, 1977: 127; Bowden, 1991: 138

 

April

by

Pitt-Rivers publishes 'On a Roman tile marked with a cross found at Iwerne, Dorset' Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist 2 (1896) 111-2

See relevant journal

 

April

12, 14 or 15

Pitt-Rivers' 69th birthday

See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdates

 

May

 

 

 

 

June

4

Ecclesiastical preferments

The Times 4 June 1896

 

July

 

 

 

 

August

 

 

 

 

September

16

Pitt-Rivers carries out experimental breeding of yaks at Rushmore

Manchester Guardian 16 September 1896

 

October

 

 

 

 

November

 

 

 

 

December

 

 

 

 

No month

No days

RUSI museum closes and Pitt-Rivers obtains many objects from it for own collections

King, 1997: 152-3

 

No month

No days

Pitt-Rivers retires from active list of Army

Bowden, 1991: 21-2

 

No month

No days

Pitt-Rivers adds dining room to Larmer Gardens

Thompson, 1977: 80

 

No month

No day

Herbert Toms stops work as Pitt-Rivers' assistant on Cranborne Chase excavations and starts job as museum assistant, Brighton. Replaced by G. Waldo Johnson

Bowden, 1991: 106; Thompson, 1977: 94

 

 

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