1894(MDCCCXCIV) was acommon year starting on Mondayof theGregorian calendarand acommon year starting on Saturdayof theJulian calendar,the 1894th year of theCommon Era(CE) andAnno Domini(AD) designations, the 894th year of the2nd millennium,the 94th year of the19th century,and the 5th year of the1890sdecade. As of the start of 1894, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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Events
editJanuary–March
edit- January 4–A military allianceis established between theFrench Third Republicand theRussian Empire.
- January 7–William Kennedy Dicksonreceives a patent formotion picturefilm in the United States.
- January 9–New England Telephone and Telegraphinstalls the firstbattery-operatedtelephone switchboard,inLexington, Massachusetts.
- February 12– FrenchanarchistÉmile Henrysets off a bomb in a Paris café, killing one person and wounding twenty.
- February 15
- In Korea, peasant unrest erupts in theDonghak Peasant Revolution,a massive revolt of followers of theDonghakmovement.[1]Both China and Japan send military forces, claiming to come to the rulingJoseondynasty government's aid.
- FrenchanarchistMartial Bourdindies of an accidental detonation of his own bomb, next to theRoyal Observatory, Greenwich,in London, England.
- March 1– TheLocal Government Act(coming into effect December 1894–January 1895) reformslocal governmentin Britain, creating a system ofurbanandrural districtswith elected councils, with elected civilparish councilsin rural areas, and gives women, irrespective of marital status, the right to vote and stand in local (but not national) elections.[2]
- March 2–William Gladstoneresigns as British Prime Minister.
- March 12–Coca-Colais sold in bottles for the first time.
- March 21– Asyzygyof planets occurs, as Mercury transits the Sun as seen from Venus, and Mercury and Venus both transit the Sun as seen from Saturn, but no two of the transits are simultaneous.
- March 25–Coxey's Army(of the unemployed), the first significant protest march in the United States, departs fromMassillon, Ohio,forWashington, D.C.
April–June
edit- April 11– Britain establishes a protectorate overUganda.[2]
- April 16–Manchester City Football Clubis formed in north-west England under this name.
- April 21– Abituminous coal miners' strikecloses mines across the central United States.
- April 27–Canada's largest known landslide occurs inSaint-Alban, Quebec,displacing 185 million cubic metres (6.5×109cu ft) of rock and dirt, and leaving a 40-metre (130 ft) scar that covers 4.6 million square metres (50×106sq ft).[3]
- May–Third plague pandemic:Bubonic plaguebreaks out in theTai Ping Shanarea of Hong Kong (by the end of the year, the death toll is 2,552 people); it also breaks out this year inCanton.
- May 1– In the United States:
- Coxey's Armyarrives in Washington; Coxey is arrested on the Capitol grounds.
- TheMay Day Riots(against unemployment) break out inCleveland, Ohio.
- May 11–Pullman Strike:Three thousandPullman Palace Car Companyfactory workers go on a "wildcat" (without union approval) strike inIllinois.
- May 14–Blackpool Toweris opened inBlackpool,in north-west England, as a visitor attraction.
- May 21– TheManchester Ship CanalandDocksare officially opened byQueen Victoria,linking the previously landlocked industrial city ofManchester,in north-west England, to theIrish Sea.
- June 22–Dahomeybecomes a French colony.
- June 23– TheInternational Olympic Committeeis founded at theSorbonne,Paris, at the initiative of BaronPierre de Coubertin.
- June 24–Sadi Carnot,president of France,is assassinated in Lyon.
- June 30–Tower Bridgein London opens for traffic.
July–September
edit- July 4
- The short-livedRepublic of Hawaiiis proclaimed bySanford B. Dole.
- ThefootballclubFC La Chaux-de-Fondsis founded in Switzerland.
- July 6– A fire at the site of the1893World's Columbian Expositionin Chicago destroys most of the remaining buildings.[4]
- July 16– The United Kingdom and Japan sign theAnglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation,as the U.K. becomes the first of the Western nations to agree to give up itsextraterritorial rightsin Japan.[5]
- July 22– TheParis–RouenCompetition for Horseless Carriages, the first automobile competition, is held.
- August 1– War is declared between theQing Empireof China and theEmpire of Japanover their rival claims of influence on their common ally, theJoseondynasty of Korea. The event marks the start of theFirst Sino-Japanese War.
- August 15– Italian anarchistSante Geronimo Caseriois executed by guillotine for the assassination of FrenchPresident Carnotin Lyon.
- August 31– New Zealand enacts the world's firstminimum wage law,to take effect on January 1, in the passage of theIndustrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act of 1894.[6]
- September 1–Great Hinckley Fire:Aforest fireinHinckley, Minnesota,kills more than 450 people.
- September 4– In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike againstsweatshopworking conditions.
- September 10–Richard StraussmarriesPauline De Ahna.
- September 26– TheSSOhio(1875)and the schooner bargeIrontoncollide and sink inLake Huron.While the crew of theOhiois rescued, five of the other craft's seven-member crew, including the captain, are lost.
October–December
edit- October 1–Petrópolisbecomes the capital of the Brazilian state ofRio de Janeiro,until1902.[7]
- October 15–Dreyfus affair:French Army officerAlfred Dreyfusis arrested for spying.
- October 30– Domenico Menegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producingpandoroindustrially.
- November 1
- EmperorAlexander III of Russiais succeeded by his son,Nicholas II.
- The first issue ofBillboardmagazineis published in Cincinnati, Ohio byWilliam Donaldsonand James Hennegan. Initially, it covers the advertising and bill posting industry, and is at the time known asBillboard Advertising.
- November 6– Republicans win by a landslide in theUnited States House of Representatives elections,which sets the stage for the decisivepresidential election of 1896.
- November 7– The MasonicGrande Loge de Franceis founded, splitting from the larger and olderGrand Orient de France.
- November 21–First Sino-Japanese War:Battle of Lushunkou– Japanese troops secure a decisive victory over the Chinese, capture the port city ofLüshunkou,and begin thePort Arthur massacre,in which more than 1,000 Chinese servicemen and civilians die.
- November 26– Wedding ofNicholas II of RussiaandAlix of Hessein theGrand Church of the Winter PalaceatSaint Petersburg.
- December 6–Kate Chopin's feminist short story "The Story of an Hour"is first published, in the American magazineVogue.
- December 18– Women inSouth Australiabecome the first in Australia togain the right to voteand the first in the world with the right to be elected to Parliament, taking effect from1895,after decades of activism.
- December 21–Mackenzie Bowellbecomes Canada's fifthprime minister.
- December 22–Dreyfus affair:French Army officerAlfred Dreyfusis convicted of treason.
Date unknown
edit- TheSociety of Beaux-Arts Architectsis founded in the United States.
- Oil is discovered on the Osage Indian reservation, making theOsagethe "richest group of people in the world".
- Edward B. Marks and Joe Stern publish the waltzThe Little Lost Childin the United States, promoting the playing of the waltz with slides projected by a magic lantern, the earliest version ofmusic videoknown as theillustrated song.
- Spillers Recordsis founded in Cardiff (Wales), the world's oldest record shop still in operation.
- TheLiga Femeilor Române,the first women's organisation in Romania, is founded.
Births
editJanuary–February
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- January 1–Satyendra Nath Bose,Indian physicist (d.1974)
- January 3–ZaSu Pitts,American actress (d.1963)
- January 8–Maximilian Kolbe,Polish friar and martyr (k.1941in Auschwitz concentration camp)
- January 15–José Bustamante y Rivero,Peruvian politician, diplomat and jurist, 78thPresident of Peru(d.1989)
- January 20–Walter Piston,American composer (d.1976)
- January 21–Geoffrey Street,Australian politician (d.1940)
- January 30
- KingBoris III of Bulgaria(d.1943)
- René Dorme,French World War I fighter ace (d.1917)
- January 31
- Isham Jones,American bandleader (d.1956)
- Percy Helton,American film, television actor (d.1971)
- February 1
- John Ford,American film director (d.1973)
- Dick Merrill,American aviation pioneer (d.1982)
- February 3–Norman Rockwell,American artist, illustrator (d.1978)
- February 8–Billy Bishop,Canadian World War I fighter ace (d.1956)
- February 10
- Harold Macmillan,Prime Minister of the United Kingdom(d.1986)
- Mãe Menininha do Gantois,Brazilian spiritual leader (iyalorixá) (d.1986)
- February 14–Jack Benny,American actor, comedian (d.1974)
- February 25–Meher Baba,IndianAvatarof the Age (d.1969)
- February 26
- Wilhelm Bittrich,GermanWaffen SSgeneral (d.1979)
- Ernest N. Harmon,American general (d.1979)
- February 28–Ben Hecht,American playwright, film writer (d.1964)[8]
March–April
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- March 7–Marcel Déat,French politician (d.1955)
- March 11–Otto Grotewohl,East German Communist politician, 1stPrime Minister of the German Democratic Republic(d.1964)
- March 14–Osa Johnson,American adventurer, documentary filmmaker (d.1953)
- March 16–Stuart Buchanan,American actor (d.1974)
- March 17–Paul Green,American novelist,Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (d.1981)
- March 19–Moms Mabley,African-American comedian (d.1975)
- March 20
- Hans Langsdorff,German naval officer (d.1939)
- Amalie Sara Colquhoun,Australian painter (d.1974)
- March 26–May Farquharson,Jamaican social worker, birth control advocate, philanthropist and reformer (d.1992)
- March 27–René Fonck,French World War Iflying ace(d.1953)
- April 5–Chesney Allen,British entertainer (d.1982)[9]
- April 10
- G.D. Birla,Indian industrialist, Gandhian and educationalist (d.1983)
- Ben Nicholson,English abstract artist (d.1982)
- Archibald Roosevelt,American conservative political activist, son of PresidentTheodore Roosevelt(d.1979)
- April 12–Francisco Craveiro Lopes,12th President of Portugal (d.1964)
- April 13–Sir Arthur Fadden,13thPrime Minister of Australia(d.1973)
- April 15–Bessie Smith,African-American blues singer (d.1937)
- April 17–Nikita Khrushchev,Soviet politician (d.1971)
- April 26–Rudolf Hess,German Nazi official (d.1987)
- April 27–Nicolas Slonimsky,Russian/American musicologist (d.1995)
- April 30–H.V. Evatt,Australian politician, judge (d.1965)
May–June
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- May 10
- Horia Macellariu,Romanian admiral (d.1989)
- Dimitri Tiomkin,Ukrainian-born composer (d.1979)
- May 11–Martha Graham,American dancer, choreographer (d.1991)
- May 13–Ásgeir Ásgeirsson,2nd President of Iceland (d.1972)
- May 20
- Estelle Taylor,American actress (d.1958)
- Chandrashekarendra Saraswati,Indian religious scholar, saint (d.1994)
- May 26–Paul Lukas,Hungarian actor (d.1971)
- May 27
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline,French writer (d.1961)[10]
- Dashiell Hammett,American detective fiction writer (d.1961)[11]
- May 29–Josef von Sternberg,Austrian-American film director (d.1969)
- May 30–Hubertus van Mook,Dutch ActingGovernor-General of the Dutch East Indies(d.1965)
- May 31–Fred Allen,American comedian (d.1956)
- June 4–Gabriel Pascal,Hungarian film producer (d.1954)
- June 5–Roy Thomson,Canadian publisher (d.1976)
- June 9–Nedo Nadi,Italian fencer (d.1940)
- June 14
- Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg(d.1924)
- W. W. E. Ross,Canadian geophysicist, poet (d.1966)
- June 23
- KingEdward VIIIof the United Kingdom (afterwards The Duke of Windsor) (d.1972)
- Harold Barrowclough,New Zealand general, lawyer and chief justice (d.1972)
- Alfred Kinsey,American sexologist (d.1956)
- June 28
- Francis Hunter,American tennis player (d.1981)
- Lois Wilson,American actress (d.1988)
July–August
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- July 8–Pyotr Kapitsa,Russian physicist,Nobel Prizelaureate (d.1984)
- July 17–Georges Lemaître,Belgian physicist, astronomer (d.1966)
- July 18–Mariano Rossell y Arellano,GuatemalanRoman Catholicclergyman (d.1964)
- July 19
- Jerzy Pajączkowski-Dydyński,British-based Polish veteran of World War I (d.2005)
- Khawaja Nazimuddin,2ndPrime Minister of Pakistan(d.1964)
- July 20–Wiley Rutledge,Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States(d.1949)
- July 22–María Sabina,Mexicancurandera(d.1985)
- July 25
- Walter Brennan,American actor (d.1974)
- Yvonne Printemps,French singer and actress (d.1977)[12]
- July 26–Aldous Huxley,English novelist (d.1963)
- August 1
- Benjamin Mays,American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (d.1984)
- Kurt Wintgens,German fighter pilot, air ace inWorld War I(d.1916)
- August 2–Bertha Lutz,Brazilian zoologist, politician, diplomat and feminist (d.1976)
- August 3–Harry Heilmann,American baseball player (d.1951)
- August 10
- V. V. Giri,Indian politician, 4thPresident of India(d.1980)
- Alan Crosland,American film director (d.1936)
- August 16–George Meany,American labor leader (d.1980)
- August 17–Riad Al Solh,2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (d.1951)
- August 28–Karl Böhm,Austrian conductor (d.1981)
September–October
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- September 2–Joseph Roth,Austrian writer (d.1939)
- September 3–Benigno Aquino Sr.,Filipino politician (d.1947)
- September 6–Howard Pease,American adventure novelist (d.1974)
- September 12
- Billy Gilbert,American actor and comedian (d.1971)
- Dorothy Maud Wrinch,British mathematician and biochemical theorist (d.1976)
- September 13
- J. B. Priestley,English novelist, playwright (d.1984)
- Julian Tuwim,Polish poet (d.1953)
- September 15–Jean Renoir,French film director (d.1979)
- September 19–Raymond Duval,French general (d.1955)
- September 24
- Tommy Armour,Scottish golfer (d.1968)
- Harry B. Liversedge,American general (d.1951)
- Billy Bletcher,American actor (d.1979)
- September 27–Lothar von Richthofen,German World War I fighter ace (d.1922)
- October 1–Beatrice Green,Welsh labour activist (d.1927)[13]
- October 5–Bevil Rudd,South African athlete (d.1948)
- October 7–Herman Dooyeweerd,Dutch philosopher and professor of law (d.1977)
- October 14–E. E. Cummings,American poet (d.1962)[14]
- October 14–Heinrich Lübke,German president (d.1972)
- October 15–Moshe Sharett,Israeli Prime Minister (d.1965)
- October 18–H. L. Davis,American fiction writer (d.1960)[15]
- October 25
- Claude Cahun,French photographer, writer (d.1954)
- Âşık Veysel,Turkish poet, songwriter and saz player (d.1973)
- October 27–Fritz Sauckel,German Nazi politician, war criminal (d.1946)
- October 28–Ismail of Johor,Malaysian sultan (d.1981)
- October 30–Peter Warlock,English composer (d.1930)[16]
November–December
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- November 2–Alexander Lippisch,German aerodynamics engineer (d.1976)
- November 3–Sofoklis Venizelos,3-timeprime minister of Greece(d.1964)
- November 4–Gabriel Auphan,French admiral and politician (d.1982)
- November 5–Harold Innis,Canadian communications scholar (d.1952)
- November 9–Mae Marsh,American film actress (d.1968)
- November 13–Nita Naldi,American film actress (d.1961)
- November 14–Rino Corso Fougier,Italian air force general (d.1963)
- November 19
- Wacław Stachiewicz,Polish writer, geologist and general (d.1973)
- Américo Tomás,13thPresident of Portugal(d.1987)
- November 21
- Corinne Griffith,American actress, author (d.1979)
- Cecil M. Harden,American politician (d.1984)
- November 23–Hardit Malik,Indian fighter pilot and diplomat (d.1985)
- November 24–Herbert Sutcliffe,English cricketer (d.1978)
- November 26–Norbert Wiener,American mathematician (d.1964)
- November 27–Konosuke Matsushita,Japanese industrialist (d.1989)
- November 29–Lucille Hegamin,American singer, entertainer (d.1970)
- December 4–T. V. Soong,Premier of the Republic of China(d.1971)
- December 5–C. R. Swart,1st State President of South Africa (d.1982)
- December 8
- E. C. Segar,American cartoonist, creator ofPopeye(d.1938)
- James Thurber,American cartoonist, writer (d.1961)
- Florbela Espanca,Portuguese poet (d.1930)
- December 10–Edward Milford,Australian general (d.1972)
- [ [December 10]] – ' Philip Drinker, American hygienist and inventor of theiron lung(d.1972)
- December 15–Felix Stump,American admiral (d.1972)
- December 17
- Arthur Fiedler,American conductor (d.1979)
- Willem Schermerhorn,28thPrime Minister of the Netherlands(d.1977)
- December 20–Sir Robert Menzies,12thPrime Minister of Australia(d.1978)
- December 22–Edwin Linkomies,Prime Minister of Finland(d.1963)
- December 23–Arthur Gilligan,English cricket captain (d.1976)
- December 24–Georges Guynemer,French World War I fighter ace (d.1917)
- December 26–Jean Toomer,American poet (d.1967)
Date unknown
edit- Shah Abd al-Wahhab,Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (d.1982)[17]
Deaths
editJanuary–June
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- January 1–Heinrich Hertz,German physicist (b.1857)
- January 13–Nadezhda von Meck,Russian patron of Peter Tchaikovsky (b.1831)
- January 20–Robert Halpin,Irish mariner and transoceanic cable layer (b.1836)
- January 28–Elise Hwasser,Swedish actress (b.1831)
- February 4–Adolphe Sax,Belgian instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone (b.1814)
- February 5–Auguste Vaillant,French anarchist (b.1861) (executed)
- February 6–Maria Deraismes,French feminist (b.1828)
- February 8–Robert Michael Ballantyne,Scottish novelist(b.1825)[18]
- February 12–Hans von Bülow,German conductor, pianist and composer (b.1830)
- February 14–Myra Bradwell,American lawyer, political activist, (b.1831)
- February 15–May Brookyn,American actress (b.1854/1859)
- February 21–Gustave Caillebotte,French painter (b.1848)
- February 27
- Hilarión Daza,President of Bolivia (assassinated) (b.1840)
- Carl Schmidt,Baltic German chemist (b.1822)
- March 2
- Jubal Early,American Confederate general (b.1816)
- William H. Osborn,American railroad executive (b.1820)
- March 3–Ned Williamson,American baseball player (b.1857)
- March 14–John T. Ford,American theater manager (b.1829)
- March 20–Lajos Kossuth,Hungarian politician (b.1802)
- March 30–Jane Goodwin Austin,American popular story writer (b.1831)
- April 1–Remigio Morales Bermúdez,19th President of Peru (b.1836)
- April 8–Bankim Chandra Chatterjee,Bengali poet (b.1838)
- May 12–Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia,granddaughter of TsarPaul I(b.1827)
- May 19–Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer,American biographier (b.1812)
- June 3–Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal,German jurist, expert on Byzantine law (b.1812)
- June 7– KingHassan I of Morocco(b.1836)
- June 8–William M. Dalton,American Old West outlaw (b.1866)[19]
- June 23
- Marietta Alboni,Italian opera singer (b.1826)
- Władysław Czartoryski,Polish political activist and art collector (b.1828)
- July 24–George Peter Alexander Healy,American portrait painter (b.1813)
- June 25
- Marie François Sadi Carnot,French statesman (assassinated) (b.1837)
- Charles Romley Alder Wright,British chemist who synthesized heroin (b.1844)
- June 27–Giorgio Costantino Schinas,Maltese architect and civil engineer (b.1834)
July–December
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- July 1–Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt,Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b.1819)
- July 3–Paul Lecreux,French sculptor (b. c.1826)
- July 22–Julius von Bose,Prussian general (b.1809)
- July 30–Walter Pater,English essayist, critic (b.1839)[20]
- August 1–Joseph Holt,Union Army general (b.1807)
- August 10–Cynthia Roberts Gorton,blind American poet and author (b.1826)
- September 1–Nathaniel P. Banks,American politician, general (b.1816)
- September 3–Josiah Parsons Cooke,American scientist (b.1827)
- September 8–Hermann von Helmholtz,German physician, physicist (b.1821)
- September 13–Emmanuel Chabrier,French composer (b.1841)
- September 24–Mary Jane Patterson,first African-American woman to receive a B.A degree in 1862. (b.1840)
- October 7–Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.,American author (b.1809)[20]
- October 9–Henry Grey, 3rd Earl Grey,British politician (b.1802)
- October 20–James Anthony Froude,English historian (b.1818)[21]
- October 22–Gillis Bildt,5th Prime Minister of Sweden (b.1820)
- October 25–Mary Brayton Woodbridge,American temperance reformer and newspaper editor (b.1830)
- October 30–Juan Cortina,Mexican folk hero (b.1824)
- November 1– EmperorAlexander III of Russia(b.1845)
- November 20–Anton Rubinstein,Russian pianist, composer (b.1829)
- November 25–Solomon Caesar Malan,Swiss-born orientalist (b.1812)
- November 29–Juan N. Méndez,interimPresident of Mexicofrom 1876 to 1877. (b.1820)[22]
- December 3–Robert Louis Stevenson,Scottish author (b.1850)[23]
- December 8–Pafnuty Chebyshev,Russian mathematician (b.1821)
- December 9–Mary Bell Smith,American educator, social reformer and writer (b.1818)
- December 12–Sir John Thompson,4thPrime Minister of Canada(b.1845)
- December 28–Chamarajendra Wadiyar X,Maharajah of Mysore (b.1863)
- December 29–Christina Rossetti,English poet (b.1830)[24]
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