- Elias Solomon was Mayor of the Fremantle Municipal Council 1896-98. He was also member for South Fremantle 1892-1901, and Federal Member for Fremantle (Free Trade) 1901-03. See also his grave in the Jewish section of Fremantle Cemetery.
- The Sea Baths were built.
Freotopia
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 6 August, 2015 and hosted at freotopia.org/timeline/1896.html (it was last updated on 19 December, 2018), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.