1895 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1895?
- January 5, 1895 – Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island.
- January 12, 1895 – The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
- February 9, 1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
- April 3, 1895 – Trial of the libel case instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
- April 6, 1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
- April 17, 1895 – The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
- June 20, 1895 – The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
- June 27, 1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York, New York, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
- June 28, 1895 – Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis claim to Barony of Arizona is “wholly fictitious and fraudulent”.
- June 29, 1895 – Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
- July 11, 1895 – The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists.
- August 31, 1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.
- September 7, 1895 – The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.
- September 18, 1895 – Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
- October 4, 1895 – The first U.S. Open Men’s Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
- October 5, 1895 – The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
- November 5, 1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
- November 28, 1895 – The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago’s Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
- December 28, 1895 – The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema.
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