1996 The 200th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Jurkovic	1996 The centenary of the first Olympic Games in modern times and the first participation of the Slovak Republic at the Summer Olympics	1996 The centenary of the birth of Jozef Ciger Hronsky
1996 The centenary of the opening of the rack railway from Strba to Strbske Pleso	1996 The 250th anniversary of the birth of Moric Benovsky