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Year 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar). ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1895 in archaeology // Explorations Teoberto Maler makes first examinations of Maya site of Seibal Excavations Finds Publications Births Deaths See also List of years in archaeology 1894 in archaeology 1896 in archaeology Categories: | ... 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This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 1895. ... 1894 state leaders - Events of 1895 - 1896 state leaders - State leaders by year See also: List of religious leaders in 1895 List of international organization leaders in 1895 // Africa Ashanti Confederacy - Kwaku Dua III Asamu, Asantehene (1888-1896) Burundi - Mwezi IV Gisabo, King of Burundi (1852-1908) Zanzibar - Sayyid Hamad... 1894 colonial governors - Events of 1895 - 1896 colonial governors - Colonial governors by year See also: List of state leaders in 1895 List of religious leaders in 1895 List of international organization leaders in 1895 France French Somaliland - Léonce Lagarde, Governor of French Somaliland (1888-1899) Guinea - Noël-Eug... Roman numerals are a numeral system originating in ancient Rome, adapted from Etruscan numerals. ... This is the calendar for a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F), e. ... 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Events of 1895

January - March

January 5: Dreyfus Affair.

April 17: Shimonoseki treaty: Qing China renounces claim on Korea.

May 24: Republic of Formosa.

• January 5 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his clothes in zimbabwe and sentenced to life with freedom on Devil's Island.
• January 21 - The National Trust is founded in Britain by Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley.
• February 9 - Mintonette, which would come to be known as Volleyball, was dead.
• February 11 - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C (measured as -17°F) was recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. This record was equalled in 1982 and again in 1995.
• February 14 - First showing of Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest (St. James' Theatre in London).
• March 1 - William L. Wilson is appointed United States Postmaster General.
• March 3 - In Munich, bicyclists have to pass a test and display license plates.
• March 4 - Japanese troops capture Liaoyang and land in Taiwan.
• March 15 - Beginning and ending of civil war in Miami.

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April - June

• April 6 - Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
• April 14 - A major earthquake severely damages Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• April 16 - The town of Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, is incorporated.
• April 17 - The Treaty of Shimonoseki (also known as Treaty of Maguan) was signed between China and Japan. 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.
• April 22 - Gongche Shangshu movement - 603 candidates signed a ten-thousand-word petition against the Treaty of Shimonoseki.
• General elections in Italy.
• May 2 - Gongche Shangshu movement - Thousands of Beijing scholars and citizens protested against Treaty of Shimonoseki.
• May 24 - Anti-Japanese officials led by Tang Ching-sung in Taiwan declared independence from the Qing Dynasty, forming the short-lived Republic of Formosa.
• May 25 - Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "sodomy and gross indecency" and is sentenced to serve two years in a prison in Reading.
• May 27 - The Supreme Court of the United States decides In re Debs, ruling that the federal government had the right to regulate interstate commerce, legalizing the military suppression of the Pullman Strike.
• A Coup in Guayaquil starts 20 years of ultra-liberist government in Ecuador.
• June 24 - Birthday of Jack Dempsey, an American heavyweight boxer.
• June 28 - Union of Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador begins (ends in 1898).

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The Qing Dynasty (Manchu: daicing gurun; Chinese: 清朝; pinyin: qīng cháo; Wade-Giles: ching chao), sometimes known as the Manchu Dynasty, was founded by the Manchu clan Aisin Gioro, in what is today northeast China expanded into China proper and the surrounding territories of Inner Asia, establishing the... This article is about the Korean civilization. ... Major districts of Shenyang. ... Due to Chinas large population and area, the political divisions of China have consisted of several levels since ancient times. ... The Pescadores Islands (Traditional Chinese: 澎湖群島; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Peng-hu; Taiwanese POJ: Phêⁿ-ô·-kōan, from Portuguese, fishermen, pron. ... is the 112th day of the year (113th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Gongche Shangshu movement (Traditional Chinese: 公車上書, Simplified Chinese: 公车上书) was a politcal movement in late Qing dynasty China, seeking reforms and expressing opposition to the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895. ... 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Court membership Case opinions In re Debs 158 U.S. 564 (1895) was a United States Supreme Court decision handed down concerning Eugene V. Debs and labor unions. ... Pullman Strike began on May 11, 1894. ... A coup détat, or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government, usually done by a small group that just replaces the top power figures. ... This article is about the city of Guayaquil. ... is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, including another boxing champion, see Jack Dempsey (disambiguation). ... is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

July - September

October 1895 issue: The Cosmopolitan, illustrated.

October 22: Montparnasse.

• Night of July 10/11 - Doukhobors' Pacifist protests culminate in the "Burning of the Arms" in their villages in South Caucasus.
• July 15 - Archie MacLaren scores County Championship record innings of 424 for Lancashire against Somerset at Taunton.
• August 19 - American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
• August 29 - The sport of rugby league is formed at a meeting in the George Hotel, Huddersfield, England.
• September 3 - The first professional American football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club. (Latrobe won the contest 12-0.).
• September 18 - Booker T. Washington delivers the Atlanta Compromise Speech.

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October - December

• October - Rudyard Kipling publishes the story "Mowgli Leaves the Jungle Forever" in The Cosmopolitan illustrated magazine (price 10 cents).
• October 1 - French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar.
• October 22 - Train wreck at Montparnasse Station in Paris.
• October 31 - Most recent major earthquake occurs in the New Madrid Seismic Zone.
• November 5 - George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
• November 8 - Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
• November 25 - Oscar Hammerstein I opens the Olympia Theatre, the first theatre to be built in NYC's Times Square district.
• November 27 - At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death.
• 3,000 Armenians are burned alive in Urfa by the Ottoman troops.
• December 7 - A corps of 2,500 Italian troops, mostly Ascari, are crushed by 30,000 Abyssian troops at Amba Alagi
• December 24 - George W. Vanderbilt officially opens "Biltmore House" estate on Christmas Eve inviting his family to celebrate his new home in Asheville, NC.
• December 28 - Auguste and Louis Lumière display their first moving picture film in Paris.

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Undated

• The London School of Economics and Political Science is founded in London, England.
• Dundela FC is formed in Belfast, Ireland.
• Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposes a space elevator.
• Grace Chisholm Young becomes the first woman awarded a doctorate at a German university.
• W.E.B. Du Bois becomes the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
• Duck Reach Power Station, Tasmania, opens.

Streetcar in NYC, 8th Avenue.

• The first Boxer (dog) show was held at Munich, Germany.
• The Welsh Grand National was held at Ely Racecourse, Cardiff.
• The gold reserve of the U.S. Treasury was saved when J. P. Morgan and the Rothschilds loaned $65 million worth of gold to the United States government.
• The Biltmore Estate construction is completed.
• New York City used horse-drawn streetcars.
• Shelbourne F.C. were founded in Dublin, Ireland.
• Several car companies sold cars, including Benz.
• Swarovski company opens.

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Births

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January - June

• January 1
  • J. Edgar Hoover, American Federal Bureau of Investigation director (d. 1972)
• January 15 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
• January 21 - Cristobal Balenciaga, Spanish-French couturier (d. 1972)
• January 23 - Raymond Griffith, American actor (d. 1957)
• January 24 - Eugen Roth, German writer (d. 1976)
• January 30 - Wilhelm Gustloff, German-born Swiss Nazi party leader (d. 1936)
• February 1 - John Ford, American film director (d. 1973)
• February 2 - George Halas, American football player, coach, and co-founder of the National Football League (d. 1983)
• February 6 - Babe Ruth, American baseball player (d. 1948)
• February 14 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (d. 1973)
• February 15 - Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (d. 1971)
• February 21 - Carl Peter Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1976)
• February 25 - Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (d. 1984)
• March 3
  • Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
  • Matthew Ridgway, Commander of NATO, United States Army Chief of Staff (d. 1993)
• March 4
  • Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian (d. 1955)
  • Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian violinist, composer and teacher (d. 1978)
  • Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator and animator (d. 1953)
• March 12 - William C. Lee, U.S. general (d. 1948)
• March 20 - Robert Benoist, French race car driver and war hero (d. 1944)
• March 23 - Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (d. 2001)
• March 28 - Spencer W. Kimball, twelfth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1985)
• March 29 - Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998)
• April 1 - Alberta Hunter, American singer (d. 1984)
• April 3 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (d. 1968)
• April 9 - Mance Lipscomb, American singer (d. 1976)
• April 15 - Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer a journalist (d. 1968)
  • Clark McConachy, New Zealand snooker and billiards player (d. 1980)
• April 20 - Emile Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
• April 29 - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (d. 1967)
• May 6 - Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (d. 1926)
• May 8 - Fulton J. Sheen, American Catholic archbishop and television personality (d. 1979)
• May 25 - Dorothea Lange. American documentary photographer and photojournalist (d. 1965)

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