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 7, 1894 – The Cripple Creek miner’s strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
- February 13, 1894 – Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
- March 22, 1894 – The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
- 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 21, 1894 – 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.
- April 30, 1894 – Coxey’s Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
- May 1, 1894 – Coxey’s Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
- 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 Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
- July 4, 1894 – The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
- August 1, 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
- September 1, 1894 – More than 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
- 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 1, 1894 – Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
- 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.
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