1894 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1894?
- January 1, 1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal, England, is officially opened to traffic.
- January 7, 1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- January 9, 1894 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
- February 12, 1894 – Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris’s Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.
- February 13, 1894 – Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
- May 11, 1894 – Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.
- May 21, 1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
- June 23, 1894 – The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
- June 24, 1894 – Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
- July 4, 1894 – The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
- July 22, 1894 – The first ever motorized racing event is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The race is won by Comte Jules-Albert de Dion.
- July 25, 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
- August 25, 1894 – Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
- September 1, 1894 – More than 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
- September 15, 1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
- September 17, 1894 – The Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
- October 15, 1894 – The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
- October 30, 1894 – Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
- November 1, 1894 – Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
- December 22, 1894 – The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
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