Significant Events
- Jan 15 Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St Petersburg (1/27 NS)
- Mar 22 Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience
- Mar 25 Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
- Apr 17 Treaty of Shimonoseki is signed ending the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
- May 8 China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki
- Jun 20 1st female PhD from an American University, earned by Caroline Willard Baldwin (in Science) at Cornell University
- Nov 8 German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays
- Nov 27 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's will establishes the Nobel Prize
World Leaders in 1895
Grover Cleveland
US President
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
British Prime Minister
Wilhelm II
German Emperor and King of Prussia
Famous People in 1895
Claude Monet
Impressionist Painter
Babe Ruth
George "Machine Gun" Kelly
George VI
Hattie McDaniel
J. Edgar Hoover
Jack DempseyFamous Weddings
- Jul 11 Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and accused spy Mata Hari (18) weds Dutch colonial army Captain Rudolph MacLeod in Amsterdam
- Jul 26 Physicist and chemist Marie Curie (27) weds physicist Pierre Curie (36) in Sceaux, France
- Nov 20 Businessman Harvey Firestone (26) weds composer Idabelle Smith (21)
- Dec 19 Poet Robert Frost (21) weds Elinor Miriam White in Lawrence, Massachusetts
Frederick Douglass
Louis Pasteur