1895 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1895?
- January 5, 1895 – Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island.
- March 19, 1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
- April 6, 1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
- April 8, 1895 – In Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
- May 7, 1895 – In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
- May 24, 1895 – Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
- May 25, 1895 – Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of “committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons” and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
- June 28, 1895 – El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America.
- June 29, 1895 – Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
- July 11, 1895 – The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists.
- August 19, 1895 – American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
- August 31, 1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.
- September 18, 1895 – Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
- October 8, 1895 – Eulmi incident- Queen Min of Joseon, the last empress of Korea, is assassinated and her corpse burnt by the Japanese in Gyeongbok Palace.
- October 22, 1895 – In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse.
- November 2, 1895 – The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000
- November 5, 1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
- November 27, 1895 – At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
- December 28, 1895 – Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
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