1894 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1894?
- January 9, 1894 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
- February 7, 1894 – The Cripple Creek miner’s strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
- February 12, 1894 – Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris’s Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.
- April 14, 1894 – The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
- April 21, 1894 – Norway formally adopts the Krag-Jørgensen rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
- April 30, 1894 – Coxey’s Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
- May 1, 1894 – Coxey’s Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
- 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 6, 1894 – Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners’ strike.
- June 24, 1894 – Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
- June 28, 1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
- July 4, 1894 – The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
- July 25, 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
- August 1, 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
- 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 30, 1894 – Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
- November 21, 1894 – Port Arthur, Manchuria falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War, after which Japanese troops massacre the remaining inhabitants of the city.
- December 22, 1894 – The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
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