Events in History in 1895

Jan 1 Aguinaldo became a Freemason, joining Pilar Lodge No. 203, Imus, Cavite

Jan 5 Henry James' play "Guy Domville" opens in London
Jan 5 Victor Trumper makes first-class debut for NSW 17 yrs 64 days
Jan 5 French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later exonerated
Jan 12 The National Trust is founded in Britain.

Jan 13 Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband" premieres in London

Feb 21 NC Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass

Feb 23 Jaap Eden skates world record 10km (17:56)

Feb 23 William Heard, AME minister & educator, named American minister to Liberia
Feb 24 Cuban war for independence begins
Feb 26 Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio, patents a glass-blowing machine
Mar 11 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks in Straits of Gibraltar, over 400 die
Mar 18 200 African Americans leave Savannah, Georgia for Liberia
Mar 19 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service
Mar 25 Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
Mar 26 King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day
Apr 5 Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of 3 Students" (BG)
Apr 5 Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices

Apr 7 Polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen reaches record 86°13.6′N latitude north, expedition closest to the North pole

Apr 11 Anaheim completes its new electric light system
Apr 15 Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 lb (record)
Apr 17 Treaty of Shimonoseki is signed ending the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
Apr 24 Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat
May 7 Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention - the world's first radio receiver in St. Petersberg. Celebrated as Radio Day in Russia.
May 8 China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki
May 17 W G Grace completes his 100th 100 v Somerset at Bristol
May 25 Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for gross indecency
May 25 The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president.
May 27 British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector
Jun 11 Charles Duryea patents a gas-driven automobile
Jun 17 US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan
Jun 20 1st female PhD from an American University, earned by Caroline Willard Baldwin (in Science) at Cornell University
Jun 20 Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras form a short-lived confederation

Jun 28 French painter Paul Gauguin leaves France for Tahiti for the second time

Jun 29 Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
Jul 3 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Black Peter" (BG)
Jul 4 Katherine Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful"
Jul 8 Delagoa Bay Railway opens in South Africa
Jul 11 Auguste and Louis Lumière show film for scientists
Aug 10 1st Queen's Hall Promenade Concerto (Wagner's "Rienzi")
Aug 19 American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
Aug 20 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Norwood Builder" (BG)
Aug 26 Electric generator at Niagara Falls produces first power
Aug 30 Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education
Aug 31 1st pro football game (QB John Brallier paid $10 & won 12-0)
Sep 3 1st pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn)
Sep 5 George Washington Murray elected to Congress from SC
Sep 9 American Bowling Congress forms (NYC)

Sep 18 Booker T. Washington delivers 'Atlanta Compromise' address

Sep 18 Daniel David Palmer of Davenport, Iowa gives the first chiropractic adjustment
Sep 21 America's first automotive producer, the Duryea Motor Wagon Company, is founded by Charles and J. Frank Duryea
Sep 23 French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms
Sep 26 Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea
Sep 30 France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar
Oct 1 Romanians in Costantinople massacred
Oct 8 Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms
Oct 11 Emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia rejects a treaty with Italy
Oct 21 The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
Oct 22 David Belasco's "Heart of Maryland" premieres in NYC
Oct 22 In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop, crosses more than 30 meters of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse
Nov 5 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden) for gasoline driven car
Nov 5 Edward, Prince of Wales, says "We are all Socialists nowadays"
Nov 5 US state Utah accepts female suffrage

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

Dec 2 54th Congress (1895-97) convenes
Dec 7 Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies
Dec 8 Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II drives Italian General Baratieri out
Dec 17 Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, D.C.
Dec 17 George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)
Dec 29 Dr L S Jameson begins failed raid on Johannesburg