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.
- January 12, 1895 – The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
- February 24, 1895 – Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the second war for Cuban independence, that ends with the Spanish-American War in 1898.
- 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 24, 1895 – Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
- 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”.
- July 11, 1895 – The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists.
- September 7, 1895 – The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.
- September 18, 1895 – Booker T. Washington delivers the “Atlanta Compromise” address.
- September 30, 1895 – Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
- 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 8, 1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
- 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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