1895 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1895?
- March 19, 1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
- April 3, 1895 – Trial of the libel case instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
- April 6, 1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
- April 17, 1895 – The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
- 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 – The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.
- June 27, 1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York, New York, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
- June 28, 1895 – Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis claim to Barony of Arizona is “wholly fictitious and fraudulent”.
- 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 31, 1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.
- September 18, 1895 – Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
- October 4, 1895 – The first U.S. Open Men’s Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
- October 5, 1895 – The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
- October 21, 1895 – The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
- 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
- December 28, 1895 – The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema.
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