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January–March

* January 5Dreyfus affair: French officer
Alfred Dreyfus Alfred Dreyfus ( , also , ; 9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French artillery officer of Jewish ancestry whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most polarizing political dramas in modern French history. ...
is stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on
Devil's Island The penal colony of Cayenne ( French: ''Bagne de Cayenne''), commonly known as Devil's Island (''Île du Diable''), was a French penal colony that operated for 100 years, from 1852 to 1952, and officially closed in 1953 in the Salvation Islands ...
. * January 12 – The
National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty The National Trust, formally the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, is a charity and membership organisation for heritage conservation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In Scotland, there is a separate and ...
is founded in England by
Octavia Hill Octavia Hill (3 December 1838 – 13 August 1912) was an English Reform movement, social reformer, whose main concern was the welfare of the inhabitants of cities, especially London, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Born into a fa ...
, Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. *
January 13 Events Pre-1600 * 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years. * 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racing ...
First Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Coatit – Italian forces defeat the Ethiopians. * January 17Félix Faure is elected President of the French Republic, after the resignation of Jean Casimir-Perier. * February 9 – Mintonette, later known as volleyball, is created by
William G. Morgan William George Morgan (January 23, 1870 – December 27, 1942) was the inventor of volleyball, originally called "Mintonette", a name derived from the game of badminton which he later agreed to change to better reflect the nature of the sport. H ...
at
Holyoke, Massachusetts Holyoke is a city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States, that lies between the western bank of the Connecticut River and the Mount Tom Range. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 38,238. Located north of Springfield ...
. *
February 11 Events Pre-1600 *660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. * 55 – The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, on the eve of his coming ...
– The lowest ever UK temperature of is recorded at
Braemar Braemar is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, around west of Aberdeen in the Highlands. It is the closest significantly-sized settlement to the upper course of the River Dee sitting at an elevation of . The Gaelic ''Bràigh Mhàrr'' prop ...
, in
Aberdeenshire Aberdeenshire ( sco, Aiberdeenshire; gd, Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 Subdivisions of Scotland#council areas of Scotland, council areas of Scotland. It takes its name from the County of Aberdeen which has substantially differe ...
. This record is equalled in
1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...
, and again in
1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...
. *
February 14 Events Pre-1600 * 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt. * 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis ...
Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...
's last play, the comedy '' The Importance of Being Earnest'', is first shown at St James's Theatre in London. *
February 20 Events Pre-1600 *1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated. *1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland ...
** The gold reserve of the U.S. Treasury is saved, when J. P. Morgan and the
Rothschilds The Rothschild family ( , ) is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish family originally from Frankfurt that rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of F ...
loan $65 million worth of gold to the United States government. The offering of syndicate bonds sells out only 22 minutes after the New York market opens, and just two hours after going on sale in London. **
Venezuelan crisis of 1895 The Venezuelan crisis of 1895 occurred over Venezuela's longstanding dispute with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland about the territory of Essequibo and Guayana Esequiba, which Britain claimed as part of British Guiana and Venezuel ...
: U.S. President Grover Cleveland signs into law a bill resulting from the proposition of House Resolution 252, by
William Lindsay Scruggs William Lindsay Scruggs (September 14, 1836 – July 18, 1912) was an American author, lawyer, and diplomat. He was a scholar of South American foreign policy and U.S. ambassador to Colombia and Venezuela. He played a key role in the Venezuela ...
and Congressman Leonidas Livingston, to the third session of the 53rd Congress of the United States of America. The bill recommends that Venezuela and Great Britain settle their dispute by arbitration. *
February 25 Events Pre-1600 * 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor. * 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. ...
– The first rebellions of the
Cuban War of Independence The Cuban War of Independence (), fought from 1895 to 1898, was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Ten Years' War (1868–1878) and the Little War (1879–1880). The final three months ...
break out. * March 1
William Lyne Wilson William Lyne Wilson (May 3, 1843 – October 17, 1900) was an American politician and lawyer from West Virginia. A Bourbon Democrat, Wilson was elected to the United States Congress in 1882 and served six terms of office, ending in 1895. Followi ...
is appointed United States Postmaster General. * March 3 – In Munich, Germany, bicyclists have to pass a test and display license plates. * March 4 – Japanese troops capture Liaoyang, and land in Taiwan. * March 15 ** Bridget Cleary is killed and her body burned in County Tipperary, Ireland, by her husband, Michael; he is subsequently convicted and imprisoned for
manslaughter Manslaughter is a common law legal term for homicide considered by law as less culpable than murder. The distinction between murder and manslaughter is sometimes said to have first been made by the ancient Athenian lawmaker Draco in the 7th cen ...
, his defence being a belief that he had killed a changeling left in his wife's place after she had been abducted by
fairies A fairy (also fay, fae, fey, fair folk, or faerie) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature found in the folklore of multiple European cultures (including Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, English, and French folklore), a form of spirit, o ...
. ** Heian Shrine is completed in Kyoto, Japan. * March 18 – The first worldwide gasoline
bus A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for cha ...
route is started in Germany, between Siegen and Netphen. * March 30Rudolf Diesel patents the Diesel engine in Germany.


April–June

* April 6
Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...
is arrested in London for "gross indecency", after losing a criminal libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry. * April 7Nansen's ''Fram'' expedition to the Arctic reaches 86°13.6'N, almost 3° beyond the previous Farthest North attained. * April 14A major earthquake severely damages Ljubljana, the capital of
Carniola Carniola ( sl, Kranjska; , german: Krain; it, Carniola; hu, Krajna) is a historical region that comprised parts of present-day Slovenia. Although as a whole it does not exist anymore, Slovenes living within the former borders of the region sti ...
. * April 16 – The town of
Sturgeon Falls, Ontario West Nipissing is a municipality in Northeastern Ontario, Canada, on Lake Nipissing in the Nipissing District. It was formed on January 1, 1999, with the amalgamation of seventeen and a half former town, villages, townships and unorganized communi ...
, is incorporated. *
April 17 Events Pre-1600 *1080 – Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized. *1349 – The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of Hasan ...
– The Treaty of Shimonoseki is signed between China and Japan. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated
Qing Empire The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...
is forced to renounce its claims on Korea, and to concede the southern portion of Fengtien province, Taiwan, and the
Pescadores Islands The Penghu (, Hokkien POJ: ''Phîⁿ-ô͘''  or ''Phêⁿ-ô͘'' ) or Pescadores Islands are an archipelago of 90 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait, located approximately west from the main island of Taiwan, covering an area ...
to Japan. The huge indemnity exacted from China is used to establish the
Yawata Iron and Steel Works was formed in 2012 by the merger of the old Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal. was established in 1970 by the merger of Fuji Iron & Steel and Yawata Iron & Steel. Nippon Steel is the world's third largest steel producer by volume as of 2019. ...
in Japan. * April 22
Gongche Shangshu movement The Gongche Shangshu movement (), or Petition of the Examination Candidates, also known as the Scholar's Petition to the Throne, was a political movement in China during the late Qing dynasty, seeking reforms and expressing opposition to the Treaty ...
: 603 candidates sign a 10,000-word petition against the Treaty of Shimonoseki. *
April 27 Events Pre-1600 * 247 – Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ''ludi saeculares''. * 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of ...
– The historic Spiral Bridge is constructed to carry U.S. 61 over the Mississippi River, at
Hastings, Minnesota Hastings is a city mostly in Dakota County, Minnesota, of which it is the county seat, with a portion in Washington County, Minnesota. It is near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi, Vermillion, and St. Croix River (Wisconsin-M ...
. The picturesque bridge is one-of-a-kind, and serves the citizens of Hastings for 56 years, until it is demolished in
1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ...
. * May 1Dundela Football, Sports & Association Club is formed in Belfast. * May 2
Gongche Shangshu movement The Gongche Shangshu movement (), or Petition of the Examination Candidates, also known as the Scholar's Petition to the Throne, was a political movement in China during the late Qing dynasty, seeking reforms and expressing opposition to the Treaty ...
: Thousands of Beijing scholars and citizens protest against the Treaty of Shimonoseki. * May 9 – Thirteen workers are killed by soldiers of the Russian Empire during the Yaroslavl Great Manufacture strike. *
May 18 Events Pre-1600 * 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. * 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 4 ...
– The first motor race in Italy is held. It runs on a course from Turin to
Asti Asti ( , , ; pms, Ast ) is a ''comune'' of 74,348 inhabitants (1-1-2021) located in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy, about east of Turin in the plain of the Tanaro River. It is the capital of the province of Asti and it is deemed t ...
and back, a total of . Five entrants start the event; only three complete it. It is won by Simone Federman in a four-seat
Daimler Daimler is a German surname. It may refer to: People * Gottlieb Daimler (1834–1900), German inventor, industrialist and namesake of a series of automobile companies * Adolf Daimler (1871–1913), engineer and son of Gottlieb Daimler * Paul Da ...
Omnibus, at an average speed of .The Story of the Grand Prix
(retrieved 11 June 2017)
*
May 24 Events Pre-1600 * 919 – The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom. * 1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. * 1276 – Magnus La ...
– Anti-Japanese officials, led by Tang Jingsong in Taiwan, declare independence from the Qing Dynasty, forming the short-lived
Republic of Formosa The Republic of Formosa was a short-lived republic that existed on the island of Taiwan in 1895 between the formal cession of Taiwan by the Qing dynasty of China to the Empire of Japan by the Treaty of Shimonoseki and its being taken over by ...
. * May 25 – ''R. v. Wilde'':
Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...
is convicted in London of "unlawfully committing acts of gross indecency with certain male persons" (under the Labouchere Amendment) and given a two years' sentence of hard labour, during which he will write '' De Profundis''. *
May 27 Events Pre-1600 * 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed. * 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death. * 1153 &ndash ...
– '' In re Debs'': The
Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point o ...
decides that the federal government has the right to regulate interstate commerce, legalizing the military suppression of the Pullman Strike. *
June 5 Events Pre-1600 *1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights. *1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles II of Naples, Charles ...
– The Liberal Revolution begins in Ecuador, making the civil war more intense in this country. * June 11 ** Britain annexes Tongaland, between Zululand and Mozambique. ** The Paris–Bordeaux–Paris race is held, sometimes called the first automobile race in history. *
June 20 Events Pre-1600 * 451 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory. * 1180 – First Battle of Uji, starting ...
** The Kiel Canal, connecting the North Sea to the
Baltic Baltic may refer to: Peoples and languages * Baltic languages, a subfamily of Indo-European languages, including Lithuanian, Latvian and extinct Old Prussian *Balts (or Baltic peoples), ethnic groups speaking the Baltic languages and/or originati ...
across the base of the Jutland peninsula in Germany, is officially opened. ** The Treaty of Amapala establishes the union of Nicaragua,
Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...
and
El Salvador El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...
(which ends in
1898 Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, B ...
). *
June 28 Events Pre-1600 * 1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch. * 1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II. * 1461 – ...
– The
United States Court of Private Land Claims The United States Court of Private Land Claims (1891–1904) was an ad-hoc court created to decide land claims guaranteed by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in the territories of New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, and in the states of Nevada, Color ...
rules that
James Reavis James Addison Reavis (May 10, 1843November 27, 1914), later using the name James Addison Peralta-Reavis, the so-called Baron of Arizona, was an American forger and fraudster. He is best known in association with the Peralta land grant, also kno ...
's claim to the Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent".


July–September

* July 1011 – The Doukhobors' pacifist protests culminate in the "burning of the arms" in the South Caucasus. * July 15Archie MacLaren scores an English County Championship
cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
record innings of 424 for Lancashire, against Somerset, at Taunton. This record lasted until
1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...
. *
July 31 Events Pre-1600 *30 BC – Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide. * 781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Tr ...
– The
Basque Nationalist Party The Basque Nationalist Party (, EAJ ; es, Partido Nacionalista Vasco, PNV; french: Parti Nationaliste Basque, PNB; EAJ-PNV), officially Basque National Party in English,) was rejected by party members in November 2011. Nonetheless, the party did ...
(Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco) is founded by Sabino Arana. * August 7 – The
Aljaž Tower Aljaž Tower ( sl, Aljažev stolp) or the Triglav Tower () is a tower, a storm shelter and a triangulation point on the summit of Mount Triglav in northwestern Slovenia. Along with Triglav, it is a landmark of Slovenia and a symbol of the Sloveneh ...
, a symbol of the Slovenes, is erected on Mount
Triglav Triglav (; german: Terglau; it, Tricorno), with an elevation of , is the highest mountain in Slovenia and the highest peak of the Julian Alps. The mountain is the pre-eminent symbol of the Slovene nation. It is the centrepiece of Triglav Natio ...
. * August 10 – The first ever indoor promenade concert, origin of The Proms, is held at the Queen's Hall in London, opening a series conducted by Henry Wood. *
August 19 Events Pre-1600 *295 BC – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War. *43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later know ...
American frontier The American frontier, also known as the Old West or the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of United States territorial acquisitions, American expansion in mainland North Amer ...
murderer and outlaw
John Wesley Hardin John Wesley Hardin (May 26, 1853 – August 19, 1895) was an American Old West outlaw, gunfighter, and controversial folk icon. Hardin often got into trouble with the law from an early age. He killed his first man at the age of 15, claiming h ...
is killed by an off-duty policeman, in a saloon in El Paso, Texas. * August 29 ** The Northern Rugby Football Union (the modern-day Rugby Football League) is formed at a meeting of 21
rugby Rugby may refer to: Sport * Rugby football in many forms: ** Rugby league: 13 players per side *** Masters Rugby League *** Mod league *** Rugby league nines *** Rugby league sevens *** Touch (sport) *** Wheelchair rugby league ** Rugby union: 1 ...
clubs at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, in the north of England, leading to the creation of the sport of rugby league football. ** The Mat Salleh Rebellion in
North Borneo North Borneo (usually known as British North Borneo, also known as the State of North Borneo) was a British Protectorate, British protectorate in the northern part of the island of Borneo, which is present day Sabah. The territory of North Borneo ...
is incited. * September
Shelbourne F.C. Shelbourne Football Club ( ga, Cumann Peile Shíol Bhroin) is an Irish association football club based in Drumcondra, Dublin, who play in the League of Ireland Premier Division. Shelbourne were founded in Dublin in 1895. In 1904 the club join ...
is founded in Dublin, Ireland. *
September 3 Events Pre-1600 *36 BC – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate. * 301 – San Marino, one of the s ...
– The first professional American football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club (Latrobe wins 12–0). * September 7 – The first game of what will become known as rugby league football is played in England, starting the
1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season The 1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the first ever season of semi-professional rugby football, which formed the foundation of the modern-day sport of rugby league. Twenty-two Northern English teams from both sides of the Pennin ...
. * September 18 **
Booker T. Washington Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American c ...
delivers the Atlanta Compromise speech. **
Daniel David Palmer Daniel David Palmer (March 7, 1845 – October 20, 1913) was a Canadian American chiropractor who was the founder of chiropractic. Palmer was born in Pickering, Ontario, but emigrated to the United States in 1865. He was also an avid proponent ...
performs the first chiropractic
spinal adjustment Spinal adjustment and chiropractic adjustment are terms used by chiropractors to describe their approaches to spinal manipulation, as well as some osteopaths, who use the term adjustment. Despite anecdotal success, there is no scientific evidence ...
, on
Harvey Lillard William Harvey Lillard (1856 – September 7, 1925) was the first chiropractic patient. Biography Harvey Lillard was an African-American janitor who worked in the Ryan Building in Brady Street, Davenport, Iowa. He was the first person to ...
, whose complaint was partial deafness after an injury. * September 24October 3 – the '' Automobile Club de France'' sponsors the longest race to date, a event, from Bordeaux to Agen and back. Because it is held in ten stages, it can be considered the first rally. The first three places are taken by two Panhards and a three-wheeler De Dion-Bouton.


October–December

* October ** Rudyard Kipling publishes the story ''
Mowgli Mowgli () is a fictional character and the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's ''The Jungle Book'' stories. He is a feral boy from the Pench area in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, India, who originally appeared in Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" (co ...
Leaves the Jungle Forever'' in '' The Cosmopolitan'' illustrated magazine in the United States (price 10 cents), collected in ''
The Second Jungle Book ''The Second Jungle Book'' is a sequel to ''The Jungle Book'' by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in V ...
'', published in England in November. ** The London School of Economics holds its first classes in London, England. * October 1 – French troops capture Antananarivo, Madagascar. *
October 2 Events Pre-1600 * 829 – Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor. * 939 – Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and ot ...
Peiyang University, as predecessor of Tianjin University, as representative institution of higher education school in China, was founded in former Qing Dynasty. * October 8 – The Eulmi Incident: Empress Myeongseong of Korea is killed at her private residence within Gyeongbokgung Palace by Japanese agents. * October 22
Montparnasse derailment The Montparnasse derailment occurred at 16:00 on 22 October 1895 when the Granville–Paris Express overran the buffer stop at its Gare Montparnasse terminus. With the train several minutes late and the driver trying to make up for lost time, i ...
: A locomotive runs through the exterior wall of the Gare Montparnasse terminus, in Paris. * October 23 – The city of Tainan, last stronghold of the
Republic of Formosa The Republic of Formosa was a short-lived republic that existed on the island of Taiwan in 1895 between the formal cession of Taiwan by the Qing dynasty of China to the Empire of Japan by the Treaty of Shimonoseki and its being taken over by ...
, capitulates to the forces of the Empire of Japan, ending the short-lived republic, and beginning the era of Taiwan under Japanese rule. * October 31 – A
major earthquake Seismic magnitude scales are used to describe the overall strength or "size" of an earthquake. These are distinguished from seismic intensity scales that categorize the intensity or severity of ground shaking (quaking) caused by an earthquake at ...
occurs in the New Madrid Seismic Zone of the midwestern United States, the last to date. *
November 1 Events Pre-1600 * 365 – The Alemanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities. * 996 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, ...
– The Berlin Wintergarten theatre was the site of the first cinema ever, with a short movie presented by the Skladanowsky brothers *
November 5 Events Pre-1600 * 1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign. * 1499 – The '' Catholicon'', written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first Br ...
George B. Selden George Baldwin Selden (September 14, 1846 – January 17, 1922) was a patent lawyer and inventor who was granted a U.S. patent for an automobile in 1895.Flink, p. 51 ''Probably the most absurd action in the history of patent law was the granting ...
is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile. * November 8
Wilhelm Röntgen Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (; ; 27 March 184510 February 1923) was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achiev ...
discovers a type of
radiation In physics, radiation is the emission or transmission of energy in the form of waves or particles through space or through a material medium. This includes: * ''electromagnetic radiation'', such as radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visi ...
(later known as X-rays). * November 17
Flamengo Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (; English: ''Flamengo Rowing Club''), more commonly referred to as simply Flamengo, is a Brazilian sports club based in Rio de Janeiro, in the neighborhood of Gávea, best known for their professional football t ...
, a well known professional football club in Brazil, is officially founded. * November 25
Oscar Hammerstein Oscar Hammerstein may refer to: *Oscar Hammerstein I (1846–1919), cigar manufacturer, opera impresario and theatre builder *Oscar Hammerstein II Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) w ...
opens the Olympia Theatre, the first theatre to be built in New York City's Times Square district. *
November 27 Events Pre-1600 *AD 25 – Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han. * 176 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of " Imperator" and makes him Supreme Commander of the ...
– At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris,
Alfred Nobel Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( , ; 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedes, Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and Philanthropy, philanthropist. He is best known for having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel ...
signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death. * November 28''Chicago Times-Herald'' race: The first American automobile race in history is sponsored by the ''
Chicago Times-Herald The ''Chicago Times'' was a newspaper in Chicago from 1854 to 1895, when it merged with the ''Chicago Herald'', to become the ''Chicago Times-Herald''. The ''Times-Herald'' effectively disappeared in 1901 when it merged with the ''Chicago Record' ...
''. Press coverage first arouses significant American interest in the automobile. * December ** Ottoman troops burn 3,000 Armenians alive in Urfa . ** The Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War begins. * December 7 – A corps of 2,350 Italian troops, mostly Askari, are crushed by 30,000 Abyssinian troops at Amba Alagi. * December 11Svante Arrhenius becomes the first scientist to deliver quantified data about the sensitivity of global climate to atmospheric carbon dioxide (the " Greenhouse effect"), as he presents his paper "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air Upon The Temperature of the Ground" to the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( sv, Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) is one of the Swedish Royal Academies, royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that takes special ...
. *
December 15 Events Pre-1600 * 533 – Vandalic War: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Tricamarum. * 687 – Pope Sergius I is elected as a compromise between antipopes Paschal and Theod ...
– The railways of the
Cape of Good Hope The Cape of Good Hope ( af, Kaap die Goeie Hoop ) ;''Kaap'' in isolation: pt, Cabo da Boa Esperança is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. A common misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is t ...
, Colony of Natal, the Orange Free State, the South African Republic and southern Mozambique are all linked at Union Junction near Alberton.''Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway'', Statement No. 19, p. 183, ref. no. 200954-13 * December 18 – The
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: 15 crew are lost when their life-boat capsizes, while trying to rescue the crew of the ''Palme'' off Kingstown (modern-day Dún Laoghaire), near Dublin, Ireland. ** George Washington Vanderbilt II officially opens his
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, inviting his family and guests to celebrate his new home in
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. * December 28Auguste and Louis Lumière show their first moving picture film in Paris.


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is developed, by brothers Wilhelm and Carl Fein in Germany. * Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposes a space elevator. *
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becomes the first woman awarded a doctorate at a German university. *
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. * The name '' HP Sauce'' is first registered in the United Kingdom for a brown sauce. * The
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opens in Tasmania (the first publicly owned
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show is held at Munich, Germany. * A huge crowd at the first
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Births


January

* January 1 ** Bert Acosta, American aviator (d.
1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
) ** J. Edgar Hoover, American Federal Bureau of Investigation director (d.
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
) *
January 4 Events Pre-1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. * 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army. 1601–1900 *1649 – Engli ...
Leroy Grumman, American aeronautical engineer, test pilot and industrialist (d.
1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...
) * January 5
A. Edward Sutherland Albert Edward Sutherland (January 5, 1895 – December 31, 1973) was a film director and actor. Born in London, he was from a theatrical family. His father, Al Sutherland, was a theatre manager and producer and his mother, Julie Ring, was a vaud ...
, English film director and actor (d.
1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...
) *
January 9 Events Pre-1600 * 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain. *1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the J ...
Lucian Truscott, American general (d.
1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...
) * January 11Graciela Amaya de García, Mexican feminist, organizer (d.
1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...
) *
January 15 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months. * 1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of ...
** Leo Aryeh Mayer, Israeli professor, scholar of Islamic art (d.
1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
) ** Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...
) * January 19 **
Isamu Chō was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army known for his support of ultranationalist politics and involvement in a number of attempted coup d'états in pre-World War II Japan. Biography Chō was a native of Fukuoka prefecture. He graduated ...
, Japanese general (d.
1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...
) ** Arthur Coningham, British air force air marshal (d.
1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...
) * January 21 ** Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish-French couturier (d.
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
) **
Davíð Stefánsson ''Davíð Stefánsson'' (21 January 1895 – 1 March 1964) from Fagriskógur was a popular Icelandic poet and novelist, best known for his ten volumes of poetry. He was born on 21 January 1895, in Fagriskógur, Eyjafjördur, Iceland and he died ...
, Icelandic poet (d.
1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
) * January 23Raymond Griffith, American actor (d.
1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...
) *
January 30 Events Pre-1600 *1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen. *1287 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom. 1601–1900 *1607 – An estimated ...
**
Marianne Golz Marianne Golz-Goldlust (née Belokosztolszky) was an Austrian-born opera singer and actress. She maintained a successful career in eastern Europe during the early 1920s, later moving to Prague, Czechoslovakia, and becoming a theatre critic. She ...
, Austrian-born opera singer and World War II resistance member (d.
1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – ...
) **
Wilhelm Gustloff Wilhelm Gustloff (30 January 1895 – 4 February 1936) was the founder of the Swiss NSDAP/AO (the Nazi Party organisation for German citizens living outside Germany) at Davos. He remained its leader from 1932 until he was assassinated in 193 ...
, German-born Swiss Nazi party leader (d.
1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...
)


February

*
February 2 Events Pre-1600 * 506 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (''Breviarium Alaricianum'' or ''Lex Romana Visigothorum''), a collection of "Roman law". * 880 – Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King ...
George Halas George Stanley Halas Sr. (; February 2, 1895October 31, 1983), nicknamed "Papa Bear" and "Mr. Everything", was an American professional football player, coach, and team owner. He was the founder and owner of the National Football League's Chic ...
, American football player, coach, and co-founder of the National Football League (d.
1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...
) *
February 6 Events Pre-1600 * 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop. 1601–1900 * 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of ...
Babe Ruth, American baseball player (d.
1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...
) * February 8Khorloogiin Choibalsan,
Marshal of the Mongolian People's Republic The Marshal of the Mongolian People's Republic ( mn, Бүгд Найрамдах Монгол Ард Улсын маршал, Bügd Nairamdakh Mongol Ard Ulsyn marshal) was the highest rank in the Mongolian People's Army of the Mongolian People's ...
, Prime Minister of the Mongolian People's Republic (d.
1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...
) * February 10John Black, English chairman of
Standard-Triumph The Standard Motor Company Limited was a motor vehicle manufacturer, founded in Coventry, England, in 1903 by Reginald Walter Maudslay. For many years, it manufactured Ferguson TE20 tractors powered by its Vanguard engine. All Standard's tracto ...
(d.
1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...
) *
February 14 Events Pre-1600 * 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt. * 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis ...
Max Horkheimer, German philosopher, sociologist (d.
1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...
) *
February 15 Events Pre-1600 * 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus * 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia. * 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberi ...
Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (d.
1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Ja ...
) * February 18 (O.S. 6 February) – Semyon Timoshenko, Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d.
1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
) *
February 19 Events Pre-1600 * 197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies. * 356 – The anti-paganism policy of Constantius II forbids the worship of pagan ...
** Louis Calhern, American actor (d.
1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...
) ** Diego Mazquiarán, Spanish matador (d.
1940 A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January *January ...
) * February 21Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
) *
February 25 Events Pre-1600 * 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor. * 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. ...
Lew Andreas Lewis P. Andreas (February 25, 1895 – June 16, 1983) was an American football and basketball coach and college athletic administrator. He was the head coach for Syracuse University's men's basketball and football programs beginning in the 1920 ...
, American basketball coach (d.
1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
) * February 27 – Edward Brophy, American character actor (d. 1960) * February 28 ** Louise Lovely, Australian actress (d. 1980) ** Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright (d. 1974)


March

* March 3 ** Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...
) ** Matthew Ridgway, United States Army Chief of Staff, Commander of NATO (d. 1993) * March 4 ** Mikuláš Galanda, Slovak painter and illustrator (d. 1938) ** Shemp Howard, American actor, comedian (''The Three Stooges'') (d. 1955) ** Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator, animator (d. 1953) * March 12 – William C. Lee, American general (d.
1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...
) * March 20 ** Robert Benoist, French race car driver, war hero (d. 1944) ** Johnny Morrison (baseball), Johnny Morrison, American professional baseball player (d. 1966) * March 22 – Archie Cameron, Australian politician (d.
1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...
) * March 23 – Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (d. 2001) * March 27 – Ruth Snyder, American murderer (d. 1928) * March 28 ** Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria, (d.
1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...
) ** Donald Grey Barnhouse, American theologian, pastor, author, and radio pioneer (d. 1960) ** Spencer W. Kimball, 12th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1985) ** James McCudden, British World War I flying ace (d. 1918) * March 29 ** Ernst Jünger, German military hero, philosopher and entomologist (d. 1998) ** George Alan Vasey, George Vasey, Australian general (d.
1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...
) * March 30 – Carl Lutz, Swiss-American WWII humanitarian (d. 1975)


April

* April 1 – Alberta Hunter, American singer (d.
1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
) * April 3 – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (d. 1968) * April 4 – John Kotelawala, 3rd Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 1980) * April 5 – Mike O'Dowd, American boxer (d.
1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...
) * April 10 – Elena Aiello, Italian Roman Catholic professed religious (d. 1961) * April 12 – John Erskine, Lord Erskine, British soldier and politician (d. 1953) * April 13 – Olga Rudge, American violinist (d. 1996) * April 14 – Anton Reinthaller, Austrian right-wing politician (d. 1958) * April 15 ** Corrado Alvaro, Italian ''verismo' writer and journalist (d. 1968) ** Clark McConachy, New Zealand snooker, billiards player (d. 1980) * April 19 – Antonio Locatelli, Italian aviator and journalist (d.
1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...
) * April 20 – Emile Christian, American musician (d.
1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...
) * April 25 – Stanley Rous, English administrator, 6th President of FIFA (d. 1986) * April 26 – Hans Kopfermann, German physicist (d. 1963) * April 29 – Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (d. 1967)


May

* May 1 – Nikolai Yezhov, Soviet politician and police chief, Great Purge Perpetrator (d.
1940 A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January *January ...
) * May 2 – Lorenz Hart, US lyricist (d.
1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – ...
) * May 5 – Charles Lamont, Russian-born film director (d. 1993) * May 6 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (d. 1926) * May 8 – Fulton J. Sheen, American Catholic archbishop, television personality (d. 1979) * May 9 – Richard Barthelmess, American actor (d. 1963) * May 10 – Kama Chinen, Japanese supercentenarian, last surviving person born in 1895 (d. 2010) * May 11 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher, speaker, and writer (d. 1986) * May 12 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...
) * May 15 – Prescott Bush, American banker and politician (d.
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
) * May 17 ** Saul Adler, Russian-born British-Israeli expert on parasitology (d. 1966) * May 21 – Lázaro Cárdenas, 44th President of Mexico, 1934-1940 (d.
1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
) * May 25 – Dorothea Lange, American documentary photographer, photojournalist (d.
1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...
)


June

* June 3 – K. M. Panikkar, Indian scholar, diplomat and journalist (d. 1963) * June 4 – Dino Grandi, Italian Fascist politician (d. 1988) ** Russell Hicks, American actor (d.
1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...
) *
June 5 Events Pre-1600 *1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights. *1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles II of Naples, Charles ...
– William Boyd (actor), William Boyd, American actor (d.
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
) * June 10 – Hattie McDaniel, actress, first African-American woman to win an Academy Award (in 1939) (d.
1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...
) * June 12 ** Eugénie Brazier, French cook (d. 1977) ** Wilfrid Kent Hughes, Australian Olympian and politician (d.
1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
) * June 15 – Irina Odoyevtseva, Russian poet, novelist and memoirist (d. 1990) * June 17 ** Louise Fazenda, American actress (d. 1962) ** Ruben Rausing, Swedish entrepreneur, founder of Tetra Pak (d.
1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...
) * June 21 – John Wesley Snyder (US Cabinet Secretary), John Wesley Snyder, American businessman and Cabinet Secretary (d. 1985) * June 23 – Joseph Vogt, German classical historian (d. 1986) * June 24 ** Jack Dempsey, American boxer (d.
1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...
) ** Juan Miles, Argentine polo player (d. 1981) *
June 28 Events Pre-1600 * 1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch. * 1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II. * 1461 – ...
– Kazimierz Sikorski, Polish composer (d. 1986) * June 29 ** Dorothy Stuart Russell, Australian-British pathologist (d.
1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...
) * June 30 – Heinz Warneke, American sculptor (d.
1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...
)


July

* July 1 – Lucy Somerville Howorth, American lawyer, feminist and politician (d. 1997) * July 2 ** Leslie Frise, British aerospace engineer and aircraft designer (d. 1979) ** Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi, Russian aircraft engineer (d. 1975) * July 3 – Jean Paige, American actress (d. 1990) * July 4 – Irving Caesar, American lyricist, theater composer (d. 1996) * July 5 – Frederic McGrand, Canadian physician and politician (d. 1988) * July 8 ** Heinrich-Hermann von Hülsen, German major general (d.
1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...
) ** Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Ja ...
) * July 9 ** Joe Gleason, American pitcher (d. 1990) ** Frederick Melrose Horowhenua Hanson, New Zealand soldier, engineer, military leader and public servant (d. 1979) ** Gunnar Aaby, Danish soccer player (d. 1966) * July 10 ** Andrew Earl Weatherly, American philatelist (d. 1981) ** Carl Orff, German composer (d.
1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...
) ** Nahum Goldmann, leading Zionist (d.
1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...
) * July 12 ** Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (d.
1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...
) ** Buckminster Fuller, American architect (d.
1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...
) * July 14 ** Jin Yuelin, Chinese philosopher (d.
1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
) ** LeRoy Prinz, American choreographer, director and producer (d.
1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...
) * July 18 – Olga Spessivtseva, Russian ballerina (d. 1991) * July 19 ** Snake Henry, American baseball player (d. 1987) ** Tee Tee Luce, Burmese philanthropist (d.
1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...
) ** Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953) * July 20 – Chapman Revercomb, American politician and lawyer (d. 1979) * July 21 ** Adam Papée, Polish fencing star (d. 1990) ** Henry Lynn, American film director, screenwriter, and producer (d.
1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
) ** Ken Maynard, American actor (d.
1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...
) * July 22 – León de Greiff, Colombian poet (d.
1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
) * July 23 – Aileen Pringle, American actress (d. 1989) * July 24 – Robert Graves, English writer (d. 1985) * July 25 ** Yvonne Printemps, French singer and actress (d. 1977) ** Ingeborg Spangsfeldt, Danish actress (d. 1968) * July 26 ** Gracie Allen, American actress, comedian (d.
1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
) ** Kenneth Harlan, American actor (d. 1967) * July 30 – Joseph DuMoe, American football coach (d.
1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
)


August

* August 6 – Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban pianist, composer (d. 1963) * August 8 ** :fr:Aimé Giral, Aimé Giral, French rugby player (d. 1915) ** Jean Navarre, French World War I fighter ace (d. 1919) * August 10 – Harry Richman, American entertainer (d.
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
) * August 12 – Lynde D. McCormick, American admiral (d.
1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...
) * August 13 – István Barta, Hungarian water polo player (d.
1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...
) * August 16 ** Liane Haid, Austrian actress (d. 2000) ** Lucien Littlefield, American actor (d. 1960) * August 18 – Sibyl Morrison, Australian barrister (d. 1961) *
August 19 Events Pre-1600 *295 BC – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War. *43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later know ...
– François Demol, Belgian footballer (d. 1966) * August 24 **Guido Masiero, Italian World War I flying ace, aviation pioneer (d. 1942) **Tuanku Abdul Rahman, King of Malaysia (d. 1960)


September

* September 1 ** Chembai, Indian Carnatic musician (d. 1974) ** Engelbert Zaschka, German helicopter pioneer (d. 1955) * September 6 – Margery Perham, English Africanist (d.
1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...
) * September 7 – Sir Brian Horrocks, British general (d. 1985) * September 8 – Sara García, Mexican actress (d. 1980) * September 11 – Vinoba Bhave, Indian religious leader (d.
1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...
) * September 13 **Ruth McDevitt, American actress (d.
1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
) **Bernard Warburton-Lee, British naval officer, Victoria Cross recipient (d.
1940 A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January *January ...
) * September 18 ** John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1979) ** Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2009) * September 20 – Lloyd W. Bertaud, American aviator (d. 1927) * September 21 – Juan de la Cierva, Spanish civil engineer, aviator, aeronautical engineer and inventor of the autogyro (d.
1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...
) * September 22 – Paul Muni, Austro-Hungarian-born American actor (d. 1967) * September 24 – André Frédéric Cournand, French-born physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1988) * September 29 – Joseph Banks Rhine, American parapsychologist (d. 1980) * September 30 – Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1977)


October

* October 1 – Liaquat Ali Khan, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (d.
1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ...
) * October 3 – Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin, Russian lyric poet (d. 1925) * October 4 ** Buster Keaton, American actor, film director (d. 1966) ** Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (k. 1944) * October 7 – Ferdinand Čatloš, Slovak military officer and politician (d.
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
) * October 8 ** Juan Perón, two-time President of Argentina (d. 1974) ** King Zog of Albania (d. 1961) * October 9 – Ivan Yumashev (admiral), Ivan Yumashev, Soviet admiral (d.
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
) * October 10 – Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (d.
1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...
) * October 13 ** Cemal Gürsel, Turkish army officer, President (d. 1966) ** Mike Gazella, American baseball player (d. 1978) * October 14 – Silas Simmons, American Pre-Negro league baseball player, longest-lived professional baseball player (d. 2006) * October 17 – Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, 21st President of Guatemala (d.
1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...
) * October 19 – Lewis Mumford, American historian (d. 1990) * October 20 – ** Evelyn Brent, American actress (d. 1975) ** Rex Ingram (actor), Rex Ingram, African American actor (d. 1969) ** Morrie Ryskind, American dramatist (d. 1985) * October 21 – Edna Purviance, American actress (d. 1958) * October 22 – Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (d. 1980) * October 24 – Charles Walter Allfrey, British general (d.
1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
) * October 25 – Levi Eshkol, Israeli Prime Minister (d. 1969) * October 26 – Laura Třešňáková°, Czech actress (d. 1969) °-See Czech Wikipedia Page. * October 28 – Ismail of Johor, Malaysian sultan (d. 1981) * October 30 ** Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d.
1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
) ** Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...
) * October 31 – Basil Liddell Hart, British military historian (d.
1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
)


November

* November 4 – Thomas G. W. Settle, American record-setting balloonist and admiral (d. 1980) *
November 5 Events Pre-1600 * 1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign. * 1499 – The '' Catholicon'', written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first Br ...
– Walter Gieseking, German pianist (d.
1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...
) * November 10 **Franz Bachelin, German art director (d. 1980) **John Knudsen Northrop, American airplane manufacturer (d. 1981) * November 14 ** Walter Freeman (neurologist), Walter Freeman, American physician (d.
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
) * November 15 ** Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918) ** Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet, writer (d.
1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
) * November 16 – Paul Hindemith, German composer (d. 1963) * November 17 – Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher, literary scholar (d. 1975) * November 25 ** Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist (d. 1991) ** Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (d. 1986) ** Ludvík Svoboda, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1979) * November 29 ** Busby Berkeley, American film director, choreographer (d.
1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
) ** William Tubman, 19th President of Liberia (d.
1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Ja ...
)


December

* December 2 – Harriet Cohen, English pianist (d. 1967) * December 3 – Sheng Shicai, Chinese warlord (d.
1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
) * December 5 – Mamerto Urriolagoitía, 43rd President of Bolivia (d. 1974) * December 9 ** Whina Cooper, New Zealand schoolteacher, historian, and activist (d. 1994) ** Dolores Ibárruri, Spanish republican leader (d. 1989) * December 11 ** Kiyoto Kagawa, Japanese admiral (d.
1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – ...
) ** Leo Ornstein, Russian-American composer (d. 2002) * December 14 ** Paul Éluard, French poet (d.
1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...
) ** King George VI of the United Kingdom (d.
1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...
) * December 24 – Marguerite Williams, African-American geologist (d.1991?)


Date unknown

* Corneliu Carp, Romanian general (d.
1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...
) * Husayn Al-Khalidi, Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1966)


Deaths


January–June

* January 3 – Mary Torrans Lathrap, American temperance reformer (b. 1838) *
January 4 Events Pre-1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. * 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army. 1601–1900 *1649 – Engli ...
– William Loring (Royal Navy officer), William Loring, British admiral (b. 1811) *
January 9 Events Pre-1600 * 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain. *1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the J ...
– Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watchmaker (b. 1812) * January 10 – Benjamin Godard, French composer (b. 1849) * January 19 – António Luís de Seabra, 1st Viscount of Seabra, Portuguese magistrate and politician (b. 1798) * January 24 – Lord Randolph Churchill, British statesman (b. 1849) * January 25 – T. Muthuswamy Iyer, Lawyer, first Indian Judge of the Madras high court (b. 1832) * January 26 – Arthur Cayley, British mathematician, (b. 1821) * January 28 – François Certain de Canrobert, French general, Marshal of France (b. 1809) * February 9 – Ōdera Yasuzumi, Japanese general (killed in action) (b. 1846) * February 10 – Liu Buchan, Chinese admiral (suicide) (b. 1852) * February 12 – Ding Ruchang, Chinese army officer, admiral (killed in action) (b. 1836) * February 18 – Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Austrian general (b. 1817) *
February 20 Events Pre-1600 *1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated. *1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland ...
– Frederick Douglass, American ex-slave and author (b. c.1818) *
February 25 Events Pre-1600 * 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor. * 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. ...
– Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, politician (b. 1815) * February 26 – Salvador de Itúrbide y Marzán, Prince of Mexico (b. 1849) * March 2 – Berthe Morisot, French painter (b. 1841) * March 3 – Geoffrey Hornby, British admiral (b. 1825) * March 9 – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer for whom the word masochism is named (b. 1836) * March 10 – Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (b. 1825) * March 13 – Louise Otto-Peters, German women's rights movement activist (b. 1819) * March 30 – Beauchamp Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester, Beauchamp Seymour, British admiral (b. 1821) *
April 17 Events Pre-1600 *1080 – Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized. *1349 – The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of Hasan ...
– Jorge Isaacs, Colombian writer, politician and explorer (b. 1837) * April 25 – Emily Thornton Charles, American newspaper founder (b. 1845) * May 19 – José Martí, Cuban independence leader (b. 1853) * May 21 – Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (b. 1819) * May 23 – Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician (b. 1798) * May 26 – Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman statesman (b. 1822) * May 28 – Walter Q. Gresham, American politician (b. 1832) * May 30 – Joseph Marello, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1844) * June 4 – Abu Bakar of Johor, Malaysian sultan (b. 1833) * June 6 – Gustaf Nordenskiöld, Swedish explorer (b. 1868) * June 13 – Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1833) * June 27 – Sophie Adlersparre, Swedish feminist and magazine editor (b. 1823) * June 29 ** Thomas Henry Huxley, English evolutionary biologist (b. 1825) ** Green Clay Smith, American politician (b. 1826) ** Floriano Vieira Peixoto, 2nd president of Brazil (b. 1839) ** Émile Munier, French artist (b. 1840)


July–December

* July 18 – Stefan Stambolov, 9th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (assassinated) (b. 1854) * July 28 – Edward Beecher, American theologian (b. 1803) * July 29 – Floriano Peixoto, 2nd President of Brazil (b. 1839) * August 4 – Louis-Antoine Dessaulles, Quebec journalist, politician (b. 1818) * August 5 – Friedrich Engels, German communist philosopher (b. 1820) * August 8 – Howell Edmunds Jackson, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1832) * August 22 – Luzon B. Morris, American politician (b. 1827) * September 8 – Adam Opel, German founder of the automobile company Adam Opel AG (b. 1837) * September 26 – Ephraim Wales Bull, American horticulturalist, creator of the Concord (grape), Concord grape (b. 1806) * September 28 – Louis Pasteur, French microbiologist, chemist (b. 1822) * October 8Empress Myeongseong (Queen Min), last Korean empress (assassinated) (b. 1851) * October 13 - Franklin Leonard Pope, American engineer, explorer, and inventor (b. 1840) * October 25 – Charles Hallé, Sir Charles Hallé, German-born pianist, conductor (b. 1819) * October 27/October 28, 28 – Adele Spitzeder, German actress, folk singer and confidence trickster (b. 1832) *
November 5 Events Pre-1600 * 1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign. * 1499 – The '' Catholicon'', written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first Br ...
– Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa of Japan (b. 1847) * November 23 – Mauritz de Haas, Dutch-American marine painter (b. 1832) * November 24 – Ludwik Teichmann, Polish anatomist (b. 1823) *
November 27 Events Pre-1600 *AD 25 – Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han. * 176 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of " Imperator" and makes him Supreme Commander of the ...
– Alexandre Dumas, fils, French novelist and playwright (b. 1824) * December 12 – Allen G. Thurman, American politician (b. 1813) * December 13 – Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist, inventor of the dynamo (b. 1800) * December 27 – Eivind Astrup, Norwegian Arctic explorer (b. 1871)


Date unknown

* Adelia Cleopatra Graves, American educator (b. 1821)


References


Sources

* ''Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1895: Embracing Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry'' (1896); highly detailed compilation of facts and primary documents; worldwide coverage. not online. {{DEFAULTSORT:1895 1895,