1894 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1894?
- January 1, 1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal, England, is officially opened to traffic.
- January 7, 1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- January 9, 1894 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
- February 13, 1894 – Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
- 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 opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
- April 30, 1894 – Coxey’s Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
- May 21, 1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal in England 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.
- June 24, 1894 – Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
- July 22, 1894 – The first ever motorized racing event is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The race is won by Comte Jules-Albert de Dion.
- July 25, 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
- August 25, 1894 – Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
- September 1, 1894 – More than 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
- September 15, 1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
- September 17, 1894 – The Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
- October 15, 1894 – The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
- October 30, 1894 – Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
- November 21, 1894 – Port Arthur, Manchuria falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War, after which Japanese troops massacre the remaining inhabitants of the city.
- December 22, 1894 – The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
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