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Wednesday, 1
January 1896 |
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Wednesday, 8
January 1896 |
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Thursday, 16
January 1896 |
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Wednesday, 22
January 1896 |
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Saturday, 1
February 1896 |
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Current Events:
- Premiere
of Giacomo Puccini's opera La Boheme in Turin, Italy. |
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Thursday, 6
February 1896 |
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- Although Crowley's
application for membership in the Alpine Club passes the
membership committee in December 1895 his name is cut out of
the proposed membership list before today's ballot
vote for membership. |
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Saturday, 8
February 1896 |
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- Crowley
loses his match as the University of Cambridge Chess Club
plays against the London Ludgate Circus Chess Club.
[Cambridge
Review]
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Tuesday, 11
February 1896 |
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- Crowley participates
in a debate as part of the Cambridge Union debating society
at Cambridge University. Crowley's team was an "Aye" on the
topic of "That the abolition of Slavery was a mistake." It's
reported that Crowley made some "melodious remarks."
[Cambridge
Review]
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Thursday, 13
February 1896 |
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Tuesday, 25
February 1896 |
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- Crowley participates
in a debate as part of the Cambridge Union debating society
at Cambridge University. Crowley's team was an "Aye" on the
topic of "That the maintenance of the Poet Laureatship is a
dangerous absurdity." It's reported that Crowley's delivery
was flippant and familiar, and his remarks could be of no
interest to the public, except, perhaps, that he has read
"all the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, and Wordsworth's
'We are Seven.' "
[Cambridge
Review]
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Thursday, 27
February 1896 |
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Saturday, 29
February 1896 |
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- Crowley
loses his match as the University of Cambridge Chess Club
plays against the City of London Chess Club.
[Cambridge
Review]
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Location: Carlton Club
playing chess.
- Crowley
wins his match as the University of Cambridge Chess Club
plays against the North London Chess Club.
[Cambridge
Review]
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News Related to Crowley:
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Illustrated Sporting News |
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- Crowley
wins his match as the combined University Team plays against
the British Chess Club in the Universities against the
leading Metropolitan Clubs Match.
[Chess
Monthly],
[British
Chess Magazine]
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- Crowley
wins his match as the combined University Team plays against
the City of London Chess Club in the Universities against
the leading Metropolitan Clubs Match.
[Chess
Monthly],
[British
Chess Magazine]
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- Crowley returns to
Britain’s sea cliffs at Wastdale Head where he reunites with
J.N. Collie, who had mentored Crowley’s Alpine climbs
the previous summer. Together they demonstrated the puttees
that Collie had brought back from Nanga Parabat. These
leather leggings, secured by winding laces around the calf,
were handy for keeping snow out of one’s boots. Also at this
time, John Wilson Robinson, showed AC some of Wastdale
Head’s easier climbs with snowy gales preventing more
difficult ascents. Crowley later commemorated these climbs
with the poem “A Spring Snowstorm
in Wastdale” from his book
Songs of the Spirit.
[56] |
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- Crowley
attends a meeting of the Scottish Mountaineering Club in
Fort William, Scotland.
[Scottish
Mountaineering Journal]
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Current Events:
- The
first modern Summer Olympic Games open in Athens, Greece. |
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Current Events:
- The
first edition of the London newspaper the Daily Mail. |
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Current Events:
- A
mass panic during the festivities of the coronation of
Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389
people. |
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Current Events:
- Nicholas
II is crowned Tsar of Russia. |
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Current Events:
- A
Tsunami strikes the Shinto festival on the beach at Sanriku,
Japan killing 27,000 people, injuring 9,000 others and
destroying 13,000 houses. |
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- Crowley teams up with
Morris Travers to make
unguided ascents of the Aiguille de la Za (12,051 feet);
Aiguilles Rouges d’Arolla (11,929 feet), immortalized in his
poem “The Traverse of Aiguilles
Rouges”; and the Vuibez Séracs, an icefall that
had probably never before been passed. In addition, he and a
companion made an unguided ascent of the Trifthorn (12,231
feet), as well as a new descent down its northwest face.
[56],
[286]
See Crowley's account of
the Vuibez Séracs & the Aiguilles Rouges in the book,
Walks and Climbs Around Arolla. |
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Current Events:
- The
dial telephone is patented. |
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- Crowley teams up with his
cousin
Gregor Grant and they make the second ascent of the
north-north-east ridge of Mont Collon.
[286] |
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Tuesday, 1
September 1896 |
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Thursday, 17
September 1896 |
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Monday, 21
September 1896 |
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Current Events:
- British
General Kitchener's army occupies Dongola, Sudan. |
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- Crowley
is 21 years old. Now that he has come of age, he
inherits the equivalent of 2 million dollars left to him by
his
father, who died on 5 March 1887.
[56] |
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Thursday, 22
October 1896 |
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Thursday, 29
October 1896 |
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- Crowley
attends the Cambridge Chess Club as it meets in the
Aldermen's Parlour at the Guidhall to discuss forming a
County Chess Association. Crowley, as president of the
University Chess Club, proposed that a chess association be
formed. The association then moved on to elect officers with
Mr. Deighton being elected president and Crowley being
elected as a vice-president.
[Saffron
Walden Weekly News]
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Correspondence:
-
MacGregor Mathers - 2nd Order Manifesto |
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Current Events:
- William
McKinley is elected as the 25th President of the United
States. |
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Thursday, 3
December 1896 |
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Thursday,
8 December 1896 |
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Tuesday,
17 December 1896 |
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Saturday, 19
December 1896 |
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- Crowley
receives a passport and boards a ship for Stockholm, Sweden.
[261]
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Thursday, 31
December 1896 |
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Location: Stockholm,
Sweden.
- At the stroke of
midnight, Crowley makes the decision to study mysticism and
occultism. Crowley recalls that "I was awakened, to the
knowledge that I possessed a magical means of becoming
conscious of and satisfying a part of my nature which had up
to that moment concealed itself from me. It was an
experience of horror and pain, combined with a certain
ghostly terror, yet at the same time it was the key to the
purest and holiest spiritual ecstasy that exists." This
experience is repeated almost to the minute in 1897.
[56],
[286]
- Crowley is admitted to
"the Military Order of the Temple."
[56],
[286] |
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