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.
- February 24, 1895 – Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the second war for Cuban independence, that ends with the Spanish-American War in 1898.
- March 19, 1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
- 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 8, 1895 – In Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
- May 24, 1895 – Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
- May 25, 1895 – Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of “committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons” and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
- June 28, 1895 – El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America.
- July 11, 1895 – The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists.
- September 18, 1895 – Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
- September 30, 1895 – Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
- 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 21, 1895 – The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
- October 22, 1895 – 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.
- 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.
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