Notable Historical Events - 1895
1895 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Norway adopts Mid-European time |
Jan 1 |
Aguinaldo became a Freemason, joining Pilar Lodge No. 203, Imus, Cavite |
Jan 5 |
Henry James' play "Guy Domville" opens in London |
Jan 5 |
Victor Trumper makes first-class debut for NSW 17 yrs 64 days |
Jan 5 |
French Capt Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent |
Jan 12 |
The National Trust is founded in Britain. |
Jan 13 |
Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband," premieres in London |
Jan 15 |
Albert Trott takes 8-43 on Test debut, then a record |
Jan 15 |
French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar |
Jan 15 |
Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St Petersburg (1/27 NS) |
Jan 17 |
French president Casimir-Perier resigns |
Jan 17 |
Félix Faure installed as president of France |
Jan 18 |
Amsterdam's AFC soccer team forms |
Jan 22 |
National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati |
Jan 29 |
King Koko's Kopermannen assault on Akassa Niger, 100's killed |
Jan 30 |
C J Eady (Tas) 1st Australian to score twin centuries (v Vic) |
Jan 30 |
SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed |
Jan 30 |
Tasmania beat Victoria for 1st F-C victory in 41 years |
Jan 31 |
Jose Martí & others leave NYC for invasion of Spanish Cuba |
Feb 3 |
Wilhelm Mauseth skates world record 500 m (46.8 secs) |
Feb 4 |
1st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago |
Feb 8 |
Tchaikovsky/Petipa's "Swan Lake," premieres in Petersburg |
Feb 9 |
1st intercollegiate basketball game (Minn Agricult beats Hamline, 9-3) |
Feb 9 |
Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts |
Feb 11 |
-17°F (-27.2°C) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record) |
Feb 11 |
Georgetown became part of Wash DC |
Feb 13 |
Moving picture projector patented |
Feb 14 |
Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest," opens in London |
Feb 15 |
23 cm (9 inches) of snow falls on New Orleans |
Feb 20 |
Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo |
Feb 21 |
NC Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass |
Feb 23 |
Jaap Eden skates world record 10km (17:56) |
Feb 23 |
William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia |
Feb 24 |
Cuban war for independence begins |
Feb 26 |
Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio patents a glass-blowing machine |
Mar 4 |
Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony premieres in Berlin |
Mar 6 |
England beat Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2 |
Mar 6 |
J T Brown hits the fastest 50 in Test Crickets (28 mins) Eng v Aust |
Mar 9 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias awarded cup, as Queens University (Kingston Ont) loses to Montreal AAA, 5-1 |
Mar 11 |
Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks in Straits of Gibraltar, over 400 die |
Mar 18 |
200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia |
Mar 19 |
Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service |
Mar 22 |
Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience |
Mar 25 |
Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
Mar 26 |
King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day |
Mar 30 |
British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford and Cambridge boat race |
Apr 5 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of 3 Students" (BG) |
Apr 5 |
Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices |
Apr 11 |
Anaheim completes its new electric light system |
Apr 13 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Solitary Cyclist" (BG) |
Apr 14 |
1st performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony |
Apr 15 |
Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 lb (record) |
Apr 17 |
Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) |
Apr 24 |
Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat |
May 6 |
21st Kentucky Derby: Soup Perkins aboard Halma wins in 2:37.50 |
May 7 |
In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention - the world's first radio receiver. In the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day. |
May 8 |
China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki |
May 17 |
W G Grace completes his 100th 100 v Somerset at Bristol |
May 20 |
1st commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, NYC) |
May 24 |
Henry Irving becomes 1st theatrical knight |
May 25 |
20th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Belmar wins in 1:50.5 |
May 25 |
Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for gross indecency |
May 25 |
The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president. |
May 27 |
British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector |
May 30 |
W G Grace scores his 1,000th Cricket run of the season after 22 days |
Jun 11 |
1st auto race |
Jun 11 |
Charles E Duryea patents a gas-driven automobile |
Jun 13 |
Emile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph) |
Jun 17 |
US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan |
Jun 20 |
1st female PhD (science) earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin) from an American University |
Jun 20 |
Canal of Smock officially opens |
Jun 20 |
Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation |
Jun 21 |
British Roseberry government falls |
Jun 28 |
El Salvador, Honduras & Nicaragua form Central American Union |
Jun 29 |
Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government. |
Jul 3 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Black Peter" (BG) |
Jul 4 |
Katherine Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful" |
Jul 8 |
Delagoa Bay Railway opens in South-Africa |
Jul 11 |
Auguste & Louis Lumière show film for scientists |
Jul 15 |
12th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Charlotte Sterry beats H Jackson (7-5 8-6) |
Jul 15 |
19th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Wilfred Baddeley beats W Eaves (4-6 2-6 8-6 6-2 6-3) |
Jul 16 |
Archie MacLaren completes cricket 424 for Lancs v Somerset at Taunton |
Aug 10 |
1st Queen's Hall Promenade Concerto (Wagners "Rienzi") |
Aug 19 |
American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas. |
Aug 20 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Norwood Builder" (BG) |
Aug 26 |
Electric central at Niagara Falls gives 1st steam |
Aug 27 |
15th US Men's Tennis: Fred H Hovey beats Robert D Wrenn (6-3 6-2 6-4) |
Aug 29 |
The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, England. |
Aug 30 |
Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education |
Aug 31 |
1st pro football game (QB John Brallier paid $10 & won 12-0) |
Sep 3 |
1st pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn) |
Sep 5 |
George Washington Murray elected to Congress from SC |
Sep 9 |
American Bowling Congress forms (NYC) |
Sep 11 |
FA Cup stolen in Birmingham |
Sep 12 |
Defender (US) beats Valkyrie III (England) in 10th America's Cup |
Sep 18 |
Booker T. Washington delivers 'Atlanta Compromise' address |
Sep 18 |
Daniel David Palmer of Davenport, Iowa gives the first chiropractic adjustment |
Sep 21 |
1st auto manufacturer opens-Duryea Motor Wagon Company |
Sep 23 |
French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms |
Sep 24 |
1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months) |
Sep 26 |
Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea |
Sep 30 |
France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar |
Oct 1 |
Romanians in Costantinople massacred |
Oct 2 |
1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper |
Oct 4 |
Horace Rawlins wins 1st US Open golf tournament (Newport RI) |
Oct 4 |
1st US Golf Open: Horace Rawlins shoots a 173 at Newport GC RI |
Oct 5 |
The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London. |
Oct 8 |
Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms |
Oct 11 |
Emperor Menelik II of Addis Ababa draws against Italians |
Oct 21 |
The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade. |
Oct 22 |
David Belasco's "Heart of Maryland" premieres in NYC |
Oct 22 |
In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse. |
Nov 2 |
29th Belmont: Fred Taral aboard Belmar wins in 2:11½ |
Nov 5 |
1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden) for gasoline driven car |
Nov 5 |
Edward, Prince of Wales, says "We are all Socialists nowadays" |
Nov 5 |
US state Utah accepts female suffrage |
Nov 8 |
German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays |
Nov 8 |
Wilhelm Röntgen observes X-rays for the first time during an experiment at Würzburg University, Germany |
Nov 11 |
Bechuanaland becomes part of Cape Colony |
Nov 13 |
First shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii |
Nov 19 |
Frederick E Blaisdell patents the pencil |
Nov 21 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans" (BG) |
Nov 26 |
Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association forms |
Nov 27 |
Alfred Nobel's will establishes Nobel Prizes |
Nov 28 |
America's 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH |
Dec 2 |
54th Congress (1895-97) convenes |
Dec 7 |
Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies |
Dec 8 |
Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian general Baratieri's out |
Dec 13 |
1st complete execution of Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony |
Dec 17 |
Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, DC |
Dec 17 |
George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass) |
Dec 28 |
Film makers the Lumiere brothers, hold the first commercial film screening at Salon Indien du Grand Café, Paris |
Dec 29 |
Dr L S Jameson begins failed raid on Johannesburg |
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