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 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 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.
- 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 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 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 21, 1895 – The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
- 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 8, 1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
- 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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