List of state leaders in 1896



Africa
Ashanti Confederacy –
 Kwaku Dua III Asamu, Asantehene (1888–1896)
 Opoku Mensa, Chair of the Committee of Administration (1896–1900)
 Kingdom of Burundi – Mwezi IV Gisabo (1852–1908)
 Ethiopia – Menelik II (1889–1913)
 Liberia
 President -
 Joseph James Cheeseman (1892–1896)
 William D. Coleman (1896–1900)
 Mahdist State of Sudan – Abdallahi ibn Muhammad (1885–1898)
 Wassoulou Empire – Samori Ture, Emperor (1878–1898)
 Sultanate of Zanzibar –
 Hamad bin Thuwaini (1893–1896)
 Khalid bin Barghash (1896)
 Hamud bin Muhammed (1896–1902)
 Oranje Vrystaat – 
 President Francis William Reitz (1889–1896)
 President Martinus Theunis Steyn (1896–1902)
 Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek – President Paul Kruger (1883–1902)

Asia
 Aceh Sultanate - Alauddin Muhammad Da'ud Syah II (1875-1903)
 Emirate of Afghanistan – Abdur Rahman Khan (1880–1901)
 China (Qing dynasty) - Guangxu Emperor (1875–1908)
 Hyderabad State -
 Iran -
 Empire of Japan
 Monarch – Emperor Meiji (1867–1912)
Prime Minister -
Itō Hirobumi (1892–1896)
Matsukata Masayoshi (1896–1898)
 Joseon (Korea) – Gojong (1864–1907, Emperor after 1897)
 Nepal -
 Sultanate of Oman – Faisal bin Turki (1888–1913)
 Siam - Chulalongkorn (1868-1910)
 Sikkim - Thutob Namgyal (1874-1914)

Europe
 Andorra
Co-Princes -
French Co-Prince - Félix Faure, President of France (1895–1899)
Episcopal Co-Prince - Salvador Casañas y Pagés, Bishop of Urgell (1879–1901)
First Syndics - Bonaventura Maestre (1893–1898) and Antoni Moles (1888–1897)
Austria-Hungary – Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary (1848–1916)
Minister-President of Austria - Count Kasimir Felix von Badeni (1895–1897)
Minister-President of Hungary - Dezső Bánffy (1895–1899)
 Belgium
Monarch – Léopold II, King of the Belgians (1865–1909)
Cabinet Chief -
Jules de Burlet (1894–1896)
Paul de Smet de Naeyer (1896–1899, 1899–1907)
 Principality of Bulgaria
Monarch – Ferdinand I (1886–1918)
Prime Minister – Konstantin Stoilov (1894–1899)
 Kingdom of Denmark
 Monarch – Christian IX (1863–1906)
 Prime Minister - Kjeld Thor Tage Otto von Reedtz-Thott (1894–1897)
 French Third Republic –
President - Félix Faure (1895–1899)
President of the Council -
 Léon Bourgeois (1895–1896)
 Jules Méline (1896–1898)
 German Empire –
Monarch – Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1888–1918)
Chancellor - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1894–1900)
see also List of German rulers in 1896
Kingdom of Greece
Monarch – George I (1863–1913)
Prime Minister – Theodoros Deligiannis (1895–1897)
 Kingdom of Italy
Monarch – Umberto I (1878–1900)
Prime Minister -
 Francesco Crispi (1893–1896)
 Marchese di Rudinì (1896–1898)
 Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Monarch – Adolphe (1890–1905)
Prime Minister - Paul Eyschen (1888–1915)
 Netherlands
Monarch – Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands (1890–1948)
Regent – Emma (1890–1898)
Chairman of the Dutch Council of Ministers - Joan Röell (1894–1897)
 Ottoman (Turkish) Empire – Abdul Hamid II, Sultan (1876–1909)  
Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves
 Monarch – Carlos I (1889–1908)
 President of the Council of Ministers - Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro (1893–1897)
 Russian Empire – Nicholas II (1894–1917)
Principality of Serbia –
Monarch – Aleksandar Obrenović V, King of Serbia (1889–1903)
Prime Minister -
Stojan Novaković (1895–1896, 1909)
Đorđe Simić (1894, 1896–1897)
 Kingdom of Spain –
Monarch – Alfonso XIII (1886–1931), under the regency of his mother Queen Maria Christina (1885–1902)
Prime Minister - Antonio Cánovas del Castillo (1895–1897)
Kingdom of Sweden – United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway -
Monarch – Oscar II (1872–1907)
Prime Minister  - Erik Gustaf Boström (1891–1900)
 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland –
Monarch – Victoria (1837–1901)
Prime Minister - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1885–1886, 1886–1892, 1895–1902)

North America and the Caribbean
 Canada –
Mackenzie Bowell, Prime Minister of Canada (1894–1896)
Charles Tupper, Prime Minister of Canada (1896)
Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada (1896–1911)
 Costa Rica – Rafael Yglesias Castro, President of Costa Rica (1894–1902)
 Guatemala – José María Reina Barrios, President of Guatemala (1892–1898)
 Honduras -
 Mexico - Porfirio Díaz, President of México (1884–1911)
 United States - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (1893–1897)

Oceania
New Zealand
 Monarch – Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1837–1901)
 Governor-General - The Earl of Glasgow (1892–1897)
 Prime Minister - Richard Seddon (1893–1906)
 Niue –
Fata-a-iki, King of Niue (1887–1896)
Togia-Pulu-toaki, King of Niue (1896-?)
 Samoa – Malietoa Laupepa, Malietoa (1880–1898)
 Tonga
 Monarch – George Tupou II, King of Tonga (1893–1918)
 Prime Minister - Siosateki Veikune (1893–1904)

South America
Argentina – José Evaristo Uriburu, President of Argentina (1895–1898)
 Bolivia –
Mariano Baptista, President of Bolivia (1892–1896)
Severo Fernández, President of Bolivia (1896–1899)
 Brazil –
Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (1894–1898)
Manuel Vitorino Pereira, acting President of Brazil (1896–1897)
 Chile –
Jorge Montt, President of Chile (1891–1896)
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren, President of Chile (1896–1901)
 Colombia – Miguel Antonio Caro, President of Colombia (1894–1898)
 Ecuador – Eloy Alfaro, President of Ecuador (1895–1901)
 Paraguay – Juan Bautista Egusquiza, President of Paraguay (1894–1898)
 Peru – Nicolás de Piérola, President of Peru (1895–1899)
Uruguay – Juan Idiarte Borda, President of Uruguay (1894–1897)
 Venezuela – Joaquín Crespo, President of Venezuela (1892–1898)