1894

This article is about the year 1894.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1860s  1870s  1880s  – 1890s –  1900s  1910s  1920s
Years:	1891 1892 1893 – 1894 – 1895 1896 1897

1894 in topic:

Humanities

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature – Music

By country

Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Mexico – South Africa – US – UK

Other topics

Rail Transport – Science – Sports

Lists of leaders

Colonial Governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1894 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1894 MDCCCXCIV
Ab urbe condita	2647
Armenian calendar	1343 ԹՎ ՌՅԽԳ
Bahá'í calendar	50 – 51
Bengali calendar	1301
Berber calendar	2844
British Regnal year	57 Vict. 1 – 58 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2438
Burmese calendar	1256
Byzantine calendar	7402 – 7403
Chinese calendar	癸巳年十一月廿五日 (4530/4590-11-25) — to — 甲午年十二月初五日 (4531/4591-12-5)
Coptic calendar	1610 – 1611
Ethiopian calendar	1886 – 1887
Hebrew calendar	5654 – 5655
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1950 – 1951
- Shaka Samvat	1816 – 1817
- Kali Yuga	4995 – 4996
Holocene calendar	11894
Iranian calendar	1272 – 1273
Islamic calendar	1311 – 1312
Japanese calendar	Meiji 27 (明治27年)
Korean calendar	4227
Minguo calendar	18 before ROC 民前18年
Thai solar calendar	2437

Year 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–March

March 12: Coca-Cola in bottles (replicas).

• January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire.
• January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
• January 9 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
• February 12 – French anarchist Émile Henry set off a bomb in a Parisian cafe, killing one person and wounding twenty.
• February 15 – At 04:51 GMT, French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory, London, United Kingdom with a bomb.
• March 12 – For the first time, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles.
• March 21 – A syzygy of 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, the first significant American protest march, departs from Massillon, Ohio for Washington

April–June

May 14: Blackpool Tower.

• April 16 – Manchester City Football Club is formed.
• April 21 – A bituminous coal miners' strike closes mines across the central United States.
• May – The bubonic plague breaks out in the Tai Ping Shan area of Hong Kong (by the end of the year, the death toll is 2,552 people).
• May 1
  • Coxey's Army arrives in Washington; Coxey is arrested
  • The May Day Riots of 1894 break out in Cleveland, Ohio.
• May 11 – Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company factory workers go on a "wildcat" (without union approval) strike in Illinois.
• May 14
  • A meteor shower is seen in Southern France.
  • Blackpool Tower is opened in Blackpool, Lancashire, England.
• May 21 – The Manchester Ship Canal and Docks are opened by Queen Victoria.
• June 22 – Dahomey becomes a French colony.
• June 23 – The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
• June 24 – Sadi Carnot, president of France, is assassinated.
• June 30 – The Tower Bridge in London opens for traffic.

July–September

July: Fire damages Columbian Exposition.

• July – A fire at the site of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago destroys most of the remaining buildings.
• July 4
  • The Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
  • FC La Chaux-de-Fonds founded.
• August 1 – War is declared between the Qing Empire of China and the Empire of Japan, over their rival claims of influence on their common ally, the Joseon Dynasty of Korea. The event marks the start of the first Sino-Japanese War.
• August 15 – Sante Geronimo Caserio is executed for the assassination of Marie François Sadi Carnot.
• September 1 – Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota kills more than 450 people.
• September 4 – In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.

October–December

November 1: Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.

• October 1 – The Owl Club of Cape Town, South Africa has its first formal meeting.
• October 15 – Dreyfus affair: French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
• October 30 – Domenico Menegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
• November 1 – Russian Tsar Alexander III is succeeded by his son Nicholas II.
• November 6 – Major Republican landslide in the United States House of Representatives elections, 1894, which set the stage for the decisive Election of 1896.
• November 7 – The Masonic Grand Lodge de France is founded, splitting from the larger and older Grand Orient de France.
• December 18 – Women in South Australia become the first in Australia to gain the right to vote and to be elected to Parliament.
• December 21 – Mackenzie Bowell becomes Canada's fifth prime minister.
• December 22 – Dreyfus Affair: French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus is convicted of treason.

Date unknown

• Western countries give up their extraterritorial rights in Japan.
• Grace Kimmins founds the Guild of the Poor Brave Things.
• Kate Chopin writes The Story of An Hour (fiction).
• The National College of Music, London, is founded by the Moss family.
• In the U.S., the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects is founded.
• Chatham Episcopal Institute (now known as Chatham Hall ) is founded in Chatham Virginia , U.S.
• Sir William Ramsay and Lord Rayleigh discover the first noble gas, Argon.
• Oil is discovered on the Osage Indian reservation, making the Osage the richest group of people in the world.
• In Korea, peasant unrest erupts in the Donghak Peasant Revolution, a massive revolt of followers of the Donghak movement. Both China and Japan send military forces, claiming to come to the Korean government's aid. They end up fighting each other instead.
• Edward B. Marks and Joe Stern published The Little Lost Child, promoting its release with the earliest version of music video known as the illustrated song.
• New Zealand enacted the world's first minimum wage law.

Births

January–June

• January 1 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1974)
• January 8 – Vilmos Tkálecz, Hungarian politician (d. unknown)
• January 20 – Walter Piston, American composer (d. 1976)
• January 30 – King Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
• January 31 – Isham Jones, American jazz musician (d. 1956)
• February 1 – John Ford, American film director(d. 1973)
• February 3 – Norman Rockwell, American artist and illustrator (d. 1978)
• February 8 – Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher (d. 1971)
• February 10 – Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister (d. 1986)
• February 11 – Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (d. 1974)
• February 14 – Jack Benny, American actor and comedian (d. 1974)
• February 22 – Enid Markey, American actress (d. 1981)
• February 25 – Meher Baba, Indian Avatar of the Age (d. 1969)
• February 28 – Ben Hecht, American playwright, film writer (d. 1964)
• March 17 – Paul Green, novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (d. 1981)
• March 19 – Moms Mabley, African American comedienne (d. 1975)
• March 30 – Nikolai P. Barabashov, Russian astronomer (d. 1971)
• April 6 – Gertrude Baines, American supercentenarian, (d. 2009)
• April 10
  • Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist, Gandhian, and educationalist (d. 1983)
  • Ben Nicholson English abstract artist (d. 1982)
• April 13 – Arthur Fadden, Australian Prime Minister (d. 1973)
• April 15 – Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937)
• April 17 – Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician (d. 1971)
• April 26 – Rudolf Hess, German Nazi official (d. 1987)
• April 27 – Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian/American musicologist (d. 1995)
• May 2 – Joseph Henry Woodger, British theoretical biologist (d.1981)
• May 11 – Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)
• May 15 – Eddie Stumpf, American professional baseball player, manager and executive (d. 1978)
• May 16 – Walter Yust, American encyclopædia editor (d. 1960)
• May 20 – Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian religious scholar and saint (d.1994)
• May 27
  • Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d. 1961)
  • Dashiell Hammett, American author (d. 1961)
• May 30 – Hubertus van Mook, Acting Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1942 to 1948 ( d. 1965)
• May 31 – Fred Allen, American comedian (d. 1956)
• June 4 – Gabriel Pascal, Hungarian film producer (d. 1954)
• June 7 – Roy Thomson, Canadian publisher (d. 1976)
• June 9 – Nedo Nadi, Italian fencer (d. 1940)
• June 14 – Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1924)
• June 23
  • Prince Edward of York (later King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom and afterwards The Duke of Windsor; d. 1972)
  • Alfred Kinsey, American sexologist (d. 1956)

July–December

• July 9 – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
• July 18 – Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (d. 1940)
• July 19 – Khawaja Nazimuddin, Pakistani Prime Minister (d. 1965)
• July 26 – Aldous Huxley, English author (d. 1963)
• August 3 – Harry Heilmann, baseball player (d. 1951)
• August 16 – George Meany, American labor leader (d. 1980)
• August 28
  • Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (d. 1981)
  • Elisha Scott, footballer (d. 1959)
• September 2 – Joseph Roth, Austrian writer (d. 1939)
• September 7 – George Waggner, American film director, producer, and actor (d. 1984)
• September 12 – Billy Gilbert American actor (d. 1971)
• September 13
  • J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (d. 1984)
  • Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (d. 1953)
• September 15 – Jean Renoir, French film director (d. 1979)
• September 24 – Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (d. 1968)
• October 5 – Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948)
• October 7 – Del Lord, Hollywood director (d. 1970)
• October 14 – E. E. Cummings, American poet (d. 1962)
• October 15 – Moshe Sharett, Israeli Prime Minister (d. 1965)
• October 18 – H. L. Davis, American author (d. 1960)
• October 25
  • Claude Cahun, French photographer and writer (d. 1954)
  • Aşık Veysel Şatıroğlu, Turkish poet, songwriter and saz player (d. 1973)
• November 2 – Alexander Lippisch, German aerodynamics engineer (d. 1976)
• November 4 – Chafik Charobim, Egyptian impressionist painter (d. 1975)
• November 5
  • Harold Innis, Canadian communications scholar (d. 1952)
  • Beardsley Ruml, American economist and tax plan author (d. 1960)
• November 19 – Americo Tomas, former President of Portugal (d. 1987)
• 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 and entertainer (d. 1970)
• December 3 – Deiva Zivarattinam, Indian politician (d. 1975)
• December 5 – Philip K. Wrigley, American business and sports executive (d. 1977)
• December 8 – James Thurber, American writer (d. 1961)
• December 17 – Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (d. 1979)
• December 20 – Robert Menzies, Australian Prime Minister (d. 1978)
• December 22 – Edwin Linkomies, Finnish Prime Minister (d. 1963)
• December 26 – Jean Toomer, American poet (d. 1967)
• December 31 – Pola Negri, Polish actress (d. 1987)

Deaths

January–June

• January 1 – Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (b. 1857)
• January 13 – Nadezhda von Meck, patron of Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
• February 3 – Auguste Vaillant, French anarchist (b. 1861) (executed)
• February 4 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone (b. 1814)
• February 8 – Robert Michael Ballantyne, Scottish novelist (b. 1825)
• February 11 – Margaret Henley, inspiration for the name "Wendy" in Peter Pan (b. 1888)
• February 27
  • Hilarión Daza, President of Bolivia (assassinated) (b. 1840)
  • Carl Schmidt, Baltic German chemist (b. 1822)
• March 3 – Ned Williamson, American baseball player (b. 1857)
• March 20 – Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian politician (b. 1802)
• April 8 – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bengali poet (b. 1838)
• June 3 – Karl Eduard Zachariae, German jurist and expert on Byzantine law (b. 1812)
• June 7 – King Hassan I of Morocco (b. 1836)
• June 23
  • Marietta Alboni, Italian opera singer (b. 1826)
  • Władysław Czartoryski, Polish political activist and art collector (b. 1828)
• June 25 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (assassinated) (b. 1837)

July–December

• July 30 – Walter Pater, English essayist and critic (b. 1839)
• September 13 – Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (b. 1841)
• October 7 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American author (b. 1809)
• October 20 – James Anthony Froude, English historian (b. 1818)
• October 30 – Juan Cortina, Mexican folk hero (b. 1824)
• November 1 – Tsar Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845)
• November 20 – Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1829)
• November 25 – Solomon Caesar Malan, Swiss-born orientalist (b. 1812)
• December 3 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (b. 1850)
• December 8 – Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821)
• December 12 – John Sparrow David Thompson, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845)
• December 28 – Chamaraja Wodeyar, Maharajah of Mysore (b. 1863)

References

• American Annual Cyclopedia...1894 (1895) online