On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium.

The Baron de Berenger held an Olympic Festival at Chelsea Stadium in London in 1832 ... Pressed by Coubertin, the IOC soon decided to aim for 1896, with Athens as the site. That idea, too ...

The Panathenaic Stadium became the first modern Olympic venue in the world, when it hosted the summer Games in 1896. The only stadium in the world to be completely made of marble, it can seat as ...

The very first Olympics of the modern era took place in Athens in 1896. By modern standards ... while fighter jets traced the Olympic Rings in smoke above the stadium. But perhaps the most ...