The History of Cinema Timeline: 1896 Argentina-Mexico

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			Argentina

		18/7 -	Lumiere’s Cinematographe premieres in Buenos Aires at the Teatro Odeon, 367 Emerald Street. [MORE]



			Australia

		22/8 -	The first public screening is given at the Melbourne Opera House in Bourke Street. [MORE]



			Austria

		27/3 -	The first public screening is given in the mezzanine of a house at Kartnerstrasse 45. [MORE]



			Belgium

		1/3 -	The first public screening is held at 7 Galerie du Roi in Brussels. [MORE]



			Brazil

		8/7 -	The first public screening takes place at No. 57 Rua de Ouvidor, Rio de Janeiro. [MORE]



			Canada

		28/6 -	The first public screening takes place when a show of Lumiere films is screened in a former shooting gallery on rue de la Lagauchetiere in Montreal. [MORE]



			Chile

		25/8 -	The first public screening is given on a Lumiere Cinematographe in Santiago. [ADD]



			China

		11/8 -	The first public screening takes place at the Hsu Gardens in Shanghai. [MORE]



			Czechoslovakia

		15/7 -	The first public screening is given at Karlovy Vary. [MORE]



			Denmark

		7/6 -	The first public screening is held in a wooden pavilion at the Haymarket (now the Town Hall Square) in Copenhagen. [MORE]



		Egypt

	5/11 -	The first public screening takes place in one of the halls of Tusun Pasha in Alexandria. [MORE]



		Finland

	28/6 -	The first public screening is given in Helsinki. [MORE]



		France



	5/3 -	Raoul Grimoin-Sanson patents his Phototachygraphe combined camera and projector. [MORE]



	4/4 -	Georges Melies gives his first film show at the Theatre Robert-Houdin in Paris. [MORE]

	4/4 -	Auguste Blaise-Baron and Fréderic Bureau receive a patent for a sound and image synchronisation system inspired by Edison’s Kinetophone. [MORE]

	28/4 -	Pierre-Victor Continsouza and Rene Bunzli receive a patent for their Maltese Cross system. [MORE]

	2/9 -	Georges Melies patents the Kinetographe camera-projector. [MORE]


	28/9 -	Charles and Emile Pathé form the Société Pathé Frères with capital of 40,000 francs. [MORE]

	21/10 -	Eugene Pirou screens Le Coucher de la Marie, possibly the first porn movie. [MORE]



	Oct -	Georges Melies makes Escamotage d’une Dame au Theatre Robert-Houdin (The Vanishing Lady), the first of his trick films. [MORE]

	20/12 -	Georges Melies introduces the Star Films trademark. [MORE]



		– Alice Guy makes La Fee Aux Chou (The Cabbage Fairy) for Leon Gaumont. [MORE]



		Germany

	16/4 -	The first public screening is given in the canteen of the Stollwerck factory in Cologne. [MORE]



	Apr -	Oskar Messter acquires a Theatrograph and set about improving upon its design. [MORE]



		Great Britain



	10/1 -	Birt Acres presents the country’s first successful projection of films to the Lyonsdown Amateur Photographic Association in Barnet . [MORE]

	20/2 -	Robert Paul demonstrates his Animatograph projector at Finsbury Technical College. [MORE]

	21/2 -	The first public screening is given at the Marlborough Hall of the Royal Polytechnic Institution (now part of the University of Westminster) in Regent Street, London. [MORE]

	12/3	Birt Acres gives his first public projection of films at 2 Piccadilly Mansions, Piccadilly Circus, London. [MORE]



	19/3 -	Robert Paul gives the first public demonstration of his projector at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly. [MORE]

	21/7 -	Birt Acres presents his films to 75 members of the Royal families of Europe at Marlborough House. [MORE]

	24/10 -	Robert Paul patents a moving picture “experience” based on H. G. Wells’ novel The Time Machine. [MORE]

		– Esme Collings makes 19 films over a brief but prolific period. [MORE]



		Holland

	12/3 -	The first public screening is held at a rented building in Amsterdam Kalverstraat 220. [MORE]



		Hungary

	10/5 -	The first public screening is held in the café of the Hotel Royal in Budapest. [MORE]



		India



	7/7 -	The first public screenings are held at the elite Watson’s Hotel in Bombay. [MORE]



		Italy

	12/3 -	The first public screening is held at De Liure’s photographic studio in Via del Mortaro, near the Trevi Fountain. [MORE]



		Latvia

	28/5 -	The first public screening is held in the attic of 11 Kalku Street on the 28^th May 1896. [ADD]



		Luxembourg



	18/10 -	The first public screening is given by photographer Jacques Marie Bellwald to the people of Echternach, a small town on the eastern border. [MORE]



		Mexico

	16/8 -	The first screening takes place at the Castle of Chapultepec for President Porfirio Diaz on the 6^th August 1896. The first public screening is held 10 days later at 9 Plateros Street, Mexico City. [MORE]

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The History of Cinema:1896