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'''1894''' ('''
Roman numerals MDCCCXCIV''') was a
common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
Events
January-April
*
January 7 -
W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
*
January 8 - A fire at the
World's Columbian Exposition in
Chicago, Illinois causes a good deal of damage.
*
January 9 -
New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first
Battery (electricity) battery-operated
telephone switchboard (
Lexington, Massachusetts).
*
February 15 - 04:51
GMT, French
anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the
Royal Greenwich Observatory,
London,
England with a bomb.
*
March 1 -
Thomas McGreevy, Canadian politician and contractor, is released from prison after serving time for defrauding the government
*
March 12 - For the first time
Coca-Cola is sold in bottles.
*
March 15 - Anarchist
Jean Pauwels dies in a
Madeline church in
Paris when his bomb explodes in his pocket
*
March 25 -
Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs
Massillon, Ohio for
Washington D.C.
May-August
* May - outbreak of
bubonic plague in the
Tai Ping Shan area of
Hong Kong. The disease killed a total of 2,552 people in the territory that year
*
May 1 - Coxey's Army arrives in Washington D.C.
*
May 1 -
May Day Riots of 1894 break out in
Cleveland, Ohio
*
May 11 -
Pullman Strike: Three thousand
Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a "wildcat" (without
trade union union approval) strike in
Illinois.
*
May 14 -
Meteor shower in Southern
France
*
May 14 -
Blackpool Tower opened in
Blackpool,
Lancashire,
England
*
June 22 -
Dahomey becomes
France French colony
*
June 23 -
International Olympic Committee is founded at the
University of Paris Sorbonne,
Paris, France Paris, at the initiative of Baron
Pierre de Coubertin.
*
June 24 - Assassination of
Marie François Sadi Carnot Sadi Carnot,
president of France
*
June 30 -
Tower Bridge in London opened for traffic
*
July 4 - The short-lived
Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by
Sanford B. Dole.
*
August 1 - Declaration of war between the
Qing Empire of
China and the
Empire of Japan, over their rival claims of influence on their common ally, the
Joseon Dynasty of
Korea. The event marks the start of the first
Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) Sino-Japanese War.
*
August 15 -
Sante Jeronimo Caserio executed for the
Marie Francois Sadi Carnot assassination
September-December
*
September 1 -
Great Hinckley Fire: A
forest fire in
Hinckley, Minnesota kills more than 400 people.
*
September 4 - In
New York City, 12,000 tailors
Strike action strike against
sweatshop working conditions.
*
October 15 -
Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying -
Dreyfus affair begins
*
30 October - Domenico Menegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing
pandoro industrially.
*
November 1 -
Russian Tsar
Alexander III of Russia Alexander III dies and is succeeded by his son
Nicholas II of Russia Nicholas II.
*
December 18 - Women in
South Australia become the first in
Australia to gain the right to vote and to be elected to Parliament.
*
December 21 -
Mackenzie Bowell becomes
Canada's fifth
Prime Minister of Canada prime minister.
Unknown dates
* Western countries give up their
extraterritorial rights in
Japan
Births
January-March
*
January 1 -
Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (d.
1974)
*
January 20 -
Walter Piston, American composer (d.
1976)
*
January 30 - King
Boris III of Bulgaria (d.
1943)
*
January 31 -
Isham Jones, American jazz musician (d.
1956)
*
February 1 -
John Ford, American director and producer (d.
1973)
*
February 3 -
Norman Rockwell, American artist and illustrator (d.
1978)
*
February 8 -
Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher (d.
1971)
*
February 10 -
Harold Macmillan,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d.
1986)
*
February 11 -
Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (d.
1974)
*
February 14 -
Jack Benny, American actor and comedian (d.
1974)
*
February 28 -
Ben Hecht, American playwright, and film writer (d.
1964)
*
March 17 -
Paul Green, novelist and
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (d.
1981)
*
March 19 -
Moms Mabley, American comedienne (d.
1975)
April-June
*
April 10 -
Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist, Gandhian, and educationist (d.
1983)
*
April 13 -
Arthur Fadden, thirteenth
Prime Minister of Australia (d.
1973)
*
April 15 -
Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d.
1937)
*
April 17 -
Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician (d.
1971)
*
April 26 -
Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (d.
1987)
*
May 11 -
Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d.
1991)
*
May 16 -
Walter Yust, American encyclopædia editor (d.
1960)
*
May 27 -
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d.
1961)
*
May 27 -
Dashiell Hammett, American author (d.
1961)
*
May 31 -
Fred Allen, American comedian (d.
1956)
*
June 5 -
Roy Thomson, Canadian publisher (d.
1976)
*
June 9 -
Nedo Nadi, Italian fencer (d.
1940)
*
June 14 -
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d.
1924)
*
June 23 - King
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (d.
1972)
July-September
*
July 9 -
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1984)
*
July 18 -
Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (d.
1940)
*
July 19 -
Khawaja Nazimuddin, second
Prime Minister of Pakistan (d.
1965)
*
July 26 -
Aldous Huxley, English author (d.
1963)
*
August 3 -
Harry Heilmann, baseball player (d.
1951)
*
August 28 -
Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (d.
1981)
*
September 2 -
Joseph Roth, Austrian writer (d.
1939)
*
September 13 -
J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (d.
1984)
*
September 13 -
Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (d.
1953)
*
September 15 -
Jean Renoir, French film director (d.
1979)
*
September 24 -
Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (d.
1968)
October-December
*
October 5 -
Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d.
1948)
*
October 7 -
Del Lord, Hollywood director (d.
1970)
*
October 14 -
E. E. Cummings, American poet (d.
1962)
*
October 15 -
Moshe Sharett, second
Prime Minister of Israel (d.
1965)
*
October 25 -
Claude Cahun, French photographer and writer (d.
1954)
*
November 2 -
Alexander Lippisch, German aerodynamics engineer (d.
1976)
*
November 24 -
Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (d.
1978)
*
November 26 -
Norbert Wiener, American mathematician (d.
1964)
*
November 29 -
Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (d.
1970)
*
December 17 -
Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (d.
1979)
*
December 20 -
Robert Menzies, twelfth
Prime Minister of Australia (d.
1978)
*
December 31 -
Pola Negri, Polish actress (d.
1987)
Unknown date
*
Chaim Soutine, Russian-born painter (d.
1944)
*
Edwin Linkomies, Finnish Prime Minister
Deaths
*
January 1 -
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (b.
1857)
*
February 4 -
Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone (b.
1814)
*
February 6 -
Maria Deraismes, French feminist (b.
1828)
*
February 11 -
Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer
*
June 3 -
Karl Eduard Zachariae, German jurist and expert on Byzantine law (b.
1812)
*
October 24 - Tsar
Alexander III of Russia (b.
1845)
*
November 20 -
Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (b.
1829)
*
November 25 -
Solomon Caesar Malan, Swiss-born orientalist (b.
1812)
*
December 3 -
Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (b.
1850)
*
December 9 -
Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b.
1821)
*
December 12 -
John Sparrow David Thompson,
Prime Minister of Canada (b.
1845)
Fictional events of the year
Sherlock Holmes returns to London from "The Great Hiatus".
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