1894 - What happened in 1894 ?

January 1894

Monday 01:

The Manchester Ship Canal, England, was officially opened to traffic.

Sunday 07:

W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.

Monday 08:

A fire at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois causes a good deal of damage.

Tuesday 09:

New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.

February 1894

Monday 12:

22-year-old Anarchist Emile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.

Tuesday 13:

Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.

March 1894

Monday 05:

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.

Monday 12:

Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time

Thursday 22:

The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.

Sunday 25:

Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C..

April 1894

Saturday 14:

Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies.

Saturday 21:

Norway formally adopts the Krag-Jørgensen rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.

Monday 30:

Coxey's Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.

May 1894

Tuesday 01:

Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington D.C..

Friday 11:

Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.

Monday 21:

22-year-old French Anarchist Emile Henry is executed by guillotine.

June 1894

Saturday 23:

International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

Sunday 24:

The IOC decides to hold the Olympic Games every four years.

Thursday 28:

Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.

July 1894

Wednesday 04:

The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.

Wednesday 25:

The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.

August 1894

Wednesday 01:

The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.

Saturday 25:

Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.

September 1894

Saturday 01:

Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota, kills more than 400 people.

Tuesday 04:

In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.

Saturday 15:

First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Ping Yang.

Monday 17:

Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.

October 1894

Monday 15:

Dreyfus affair begins.

Tuesday 30:

Domenico Menegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.

November 1894

Thursday 01:

Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.

December 1894

Tuesday 18:

Women in South Australia become the first in Australia to gain the right to vote and to be elected to Parliament.

Saturday 22:

The Dreyfus affair begins, in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason, on antisemitic grounds.