Important Historical Events of the year 1894, Year 1894 in History

List of 1894 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1894

What happened in the year 1894?

Date Event
January 7, 1894 Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing.[10] On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
February 7, 1894 The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
February 12, 1894 Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
March 22, 1894 The Stanley Cup ice hockey competition is held for the first time, in Montreal, Canada.
March 25, 1894 Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
April 14, 1894 The first ever commercial motion picture house opens in New York City, United States. It uses ten Kinetoscopes, devices for peep-show viewing of films.
April 21, 1894 Norway formally adopts the Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
May 1, 1894 Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
May 11, 1894 Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
May 21, 1894 The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
June 6, 1894 Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.[19]
June 23, 1894 The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
June 24, 1894 Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of France, is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
June 28, 1894 Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
July 4, 1894 The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
July 22, 1894 The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the "official" victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his three-horsepower petrol engined Peugeot.
July 25, 1894 The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
August 1, 1894 The Empire of Japan and Qing China declare war on each other after a week of fighting over Korea, formally inaugurating the First Sino-Japanese War.
August 22, 1894 Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
August 25, 1894 Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
September 1, 1894 Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
September 15, 1894 First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
September 17, 1894 Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
November 1, 1894 Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
November 1, 1894 Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Native Americans, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
November 17, 1894 H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
November 21, 1894 Port Arthur, China, falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War; Japanese troops are accused of massacring the remaining inhabitants.
December 22, 1894 The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.