1894

Years: 1891 1892 1893 - 1894 - 1895 1896 1897
Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1894 in art 1894 in film 1894 in literature 1894 in music 1894 in science 1894 in sports List of state leaders in 1894 List of religious leaders in 1894

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

January 8 - A fire at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago causes a good deal of damage.
January 9 - New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard (Lexington, Massachusetts).
February 15 - 04:51 GMT, French anarchist Martial Boudin attempts to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory, London, England with a bomb.
March 12 - For the first time Coca-Cola is sold in bottles.
March 25 - Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C
May - outbreak of bubonic plague in the Tai Ping Shan area of Hong Kong. The disease killed a total of 2,552 people in the territory that year
May 1 - Coxey's Army arrives in Washington D.C.
May 11 - Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a "wildcat" (without union approval) strike in Illinois.
May 14 - Meteor shower in Southern France
June 23 - International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
July 4 - The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
August 1 - Declaration of war between the Qing Empire of China and the Empire of Japan, over their rival claims of influence on their common ally, the Joseon Dynasty of Korea. The event marks the start of the first Sino-Japanese War.
September 1 - Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota kills more than 400 people.
September 4 - In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
October 15 - Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying - Dreyfus affair begins
October 20 (O.S.) - November 1 (N.S.) - Russian Tsar Alexander III dies and is succeeded by his son Nicholas II.
November 16 - Turks kill 16.000 Armenians in Kurdistan
December 18 - Women in South Australia become the first in Australia to gain the right to vote and to be elected to Parliament.
December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Canada's fifth prime minister.
Western countries give up their extraterritorial rights in Japan
Assassination of Sadi Carnot, president of France
Tower Bridge in London opened for traffic

Births

January 20 - Walter Piston, composer
January 30 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
January 31 - Isham Jones, jazz musician (d. 1956)
February 1 - John Ford, director, producer (d. 1973)
February 8 - Ludwig Marcuse, author and philosopher (d. 1971)
February 10 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of Britain (d. 1986)
February 11 - Alfonso Leng, composer.
February 11 - Isaac Kolthooff chemist
February 14 - Jack Benny, actor, comedian (d. 1974)
February 28 - Ben Hecht, playwright, film writer (d. 1964)
March 17 - Paul Green, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (d. 1981)
March 19 - Joe Venuti, jazz musician and violinist (d. 1978)
March 19 - Moms Mabley, comedienne (d. 1975)
April 10 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist, Gandhian and educationist.
April 13 - Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973)
April 15 - Bessie Smith, blues singer (d. 1937)
April 17 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader.
April 26 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (d. 1987)
May 11 - Martha Graham, dancer, choreographer (d. 1991)
May 20 - Adela Rogers St. Johns, author (d. 1988)
May 27 - Dashiell Hammett, author of detective novels (d. 1961)
May 31 - Fred Allen, comedian.
June 5 - Roy Thomson, publisher (d. 1976)
June 14 - Grand Duchess Marie Adelaide of Luxembourg
June 23 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
July 19 - Khawaja Nazimuddin, second Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)
August 3 - Harry Heilmann, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1951)
September 13 - J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (d. 1984)
September 15 - Jean Renoir, Film Director
September 24 - Tommy Armour, professional golfer (d. 1968)
October 5 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete
October 7 - Del Lord, pioneer Hollywood director (d. 1970)
October 14 - E. E. Cummings, American poet.
October 15 - Moshe Sharett, second Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1965)
October 25 - Claude Cahun, Photographer and Writer (Born Lucy Schwob) (d. 1954)
November 2 - Alexander Lippisch, German aerodynamicist (d. 1976)
December 20 - Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1978)
Chaim Soutine, painter

Deaths

February 4 - Adolphe Sax, instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone
February 11 - Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer
March 30 - Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer
June 3 - Karl Eduard Zachariae Expert on Byzantine Law
October 24 - Alexander III of Russia, Tsar
November 20 - Anton Rubinstein, pianist and composer
November 25 - Solomon Caesar Malan, orientalist (b. 1812)
December 3 - Robert Louis Stevenson, author
December 12 - John Sparrow David Thompson, Canadian prime minister