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January 5 Events Pre-1600 * 1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France. 1601–1900 *1675 – Battle of Colmar: The French a ...
Dreyfus affair The Dreyfus affair (french: affaire Dreyfus, ) was a political scandal that divided the French Third Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906. "L'Affaire", as it is known in French, has come to symbolise modern injustice in the Francop ...
: 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 Island ...
. *
January 12 Events Pre-1600 * 475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire. * 1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already rei ...
– 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 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 family of radical ...
, 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 raci ...
First Italo-Ethiopian War The First Italo-Ethiopian War, lit. ''Abyssinian War'' was fought between Italy and Ethiopia from 1895 to 1896. It originated from the disputed Treaty of Wuchale, which the Italians claimed turned Ethiopia into an Italian protectorate. Full ...
: Battle of Coatit – Italian forces defeat the Ethiopians. *
January 17 Events Pre-1600 * 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. * 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people ...
Félix Faure Félix François Faure (; 30 January 1841 – 16 February 1899) was the President of France from 1895 until his death in 1899. A native of Paris, he worked as a tanner in his younger years. Faure became a member of the Chamber of Deputies for ...
is elected President of the French Republic, after the resignation of Jean Casimir-Perier. *
February 9 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. * 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland. *1539 – The first recorded race is held ...
– Mintonette, later known as
volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...
, is created by William G. Morgan 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 Springfiel ...
. *
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'' pr ...
, in
Aberdeenshire Aberdeenshire ( sco, Aiberdeenshire; gd, Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It takes its name from the County of Aberdeen which has substantially different boundaries. The Aberdeenshire Council area inclu ...
. 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 Bridge in Washington, D.C ...
, and again in
1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...
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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 t ...
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 ''The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People'' is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious ...
'', is first shown at
St James's Theatre The St James's Theatre was in King Street, St James's, London. It opened in 1835 and was demolished in 1957. The theatre was conceived by and built for a popular singer, John Braham; it lost money and after three seasons he retired. A succ ...
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 Scotlan ...
** The gold reserve of the
U.S. Treasury The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States, where it serves as an executive department. The department oversees the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and t ...
is saved, when
J. P. Morgan John Pierpont Morgan Sr. (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age. As the head of the banking firm that ultimately became known ...
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 Fran ...
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: U.S. President
Grover Cleveland Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837June 24, 1908) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. Cleveland is the only president in American ...
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 Venezuel ...
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 Events Pre-1600 * 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia. * 293 – Emperor Dioclet ...
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 The United States Postmaster General (PMG) is the chief executive officer of the United States Postal Service (USPS). The PMG is responsible for managing and directing the day-to-day operations of the agency. The PMG is selected and appointed by ...
. *
March 3 Events Pre-1600 * 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan. *1575 ...
– In
Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and ...
,
Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwee ...
, bicyclists have to pass a test and display
license plate A vehicle registration plate, also known as a number plate (British English), license plate (American English), or licence plate (Canadian English), is a metal or plastic plate attached to a motor vehicle or trailer for official identificatio ...
s. *
March 4 Events Pre-1600 * AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth). * 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia. * 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a ...
– Japanese troops capture
Liaoyang Liaoyang () is a prefecture-level city of east-central Liaoning province, China, situated on the Taizi River. It is approximately one hour south of Shenyang, the provincial capital, by car. Liaoyang is home to Liaoning University's College of F ...
, and land in
Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no ...
. * 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, his defence being a belief that he had killed a changeling left in his wife's place after she had been abducted by fairies. ** Heian Shrine is completed in Kyoto, Japan. * March 18 – The first worldwide gasoline bus route is started in Germany, between Siegen and Netphen. * March 30 – Rudolf 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 John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Marquess of Queensberry. * April 7 – Nansen's Fram expedition, Nansen's ''Fram'' expedition to the Arctic reaches 86°13.6'N, almost 3° beyond the previous Farthest North attained. * April 14 – 1895 Ljubljana earthquake, A major earthquake severely damages Ljubljana, the capital of Duchy of Carniola, Carniola. * April 16 – The town of Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, is incorporated. * April 17 – 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 is forced to renounce its claims on Korea, and to concede the southern portion of Liaoning, Fengtien History of the administrative divisions of China before 1912, province,
Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no ...
, and the Pescadores Islands to Japan. The huge indemnity exacted from China is used to establish the Yawata Iron and Steel Works in Japan. * April 22 – Gongche Shangshu movement: 603 candidates sign a 10,000-word petition against the Treaty of Shimonoseki. * April 27 – The historic Spiral Bridge is constructed to carry U.S. 61 over the Mississippi River, at Hastings, Minnesota. The picturesque bridge is one-of-a-kind, and serves the citizens of Hastings for 56 years, until it is demolished in 1951. * May 1 – Dundela F.C., Dundela Football, Sports & Association Club is formed in Belfast. * May 2 – Gongche Shangshu movement: 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 1895 Yaroslavl Great Manufacture strike, Yaroslavl Great Manufacture strike. * May 18 – The first motor race in Italy is held. It runs on a course from Turin to Asti 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 Company, Daimler Omnibus, at an average speed of .The Story of the Grand Prix
(retrieved 11 June 2017)
* May 24 – Anti-Japanese officials, led by Tang Jingsong in
Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no ...
, declare independence from the Qing Dynasty, forming the short-lived Republic of Formosa. * 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 (letter), De Profundis''. * May 27 – ''In re Debs'': The Supreme Court of the United States decides that the federal government has the right to regulate interstate commerce, legalizing the military suppression of the Pullman Strike. * June 5 – The Liberal Revolution begins in Ecuador, making the civil war more intense in this country. * June 11 ** Britain annexes Maputaland, Tongaland, between Zulu Kingdom, Zululand and Mozambique. ** The Paris–Bordeaux–Paris race is held, sometimes called the first automobile race in history. * June 20 ** The Kiel Canal, connecting the North Sea to the Baltic Sea, Baltic across the base of the Jutland peninsula in Germany, is officially opened. ** The Treaty of Amapala establishes the Greater Republic of Central America, union of Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador (which ends in 1898). * June 28 – The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules that James Reavis's claim to the Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent".


July–September

* July 10–July 11, 11 – The Doukhobors' pacifist protests culminate in the "burning of the arms" in the South Caucasus. * July 15 – Archie MacLaren scores an English County Championship cricket record innings of 424 for Lancashire County Cricket Club, Lancashire, against Somerset County Cricket Club, Somerset, at County Ground, Taunton, Taunton. This record lasted until Brian Lara, 1994. * July 31 – The Basque Nationalist Party (Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco) is founded by Sabino Arana. * August 7 – The Aljaž Tower, a symbol of the Slovenes, is erected on Mount Triglav. * 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 – American frontier murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman, in a Bar (establishment), 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 football, rugby 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 is incited. * September – Shelbourne F.C. is founded in Dublin, Ireland. * September 3 – 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. * September 18 ** Booker T. Washington delivers the Atlanta Compromise speech. ** Daniel David Palmer performs the first chiropractic spinal adjustment, on Harvey Lillard, whose complaint was partial deafness after an injury. * September 24–October 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 Rallying, 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 Leaves the Jungle Forever'' in ''Cosmopolitan (magazine), The Cosmopolitan'' illustrated magazine in the United States (price 10 cents), collected in ''The Second Jungle Book'', 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 – Peiyang University, as predecessor of Tianjin University, as representative Institution, 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: 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, 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 1895 Charleston earthquake, major earthquake occurs in the New Madrid Seismic Zone of the midwestern United States, the last to date. * November 1 – The Berlin Wintergarten theatre was the site of the first cinema ever, with a short movie presented by the Max Skladanowsky, Skladanowsky brothers * November 5 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile. * November 8 – Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a type of electromagnetic radiation, radiation (later known as X-rays). * November 17 – Clube de Regatas do Flamengo, Flamengo, a well known professional football club in Brazil, is officially founded. * November 25 – Oscar Hammerstein I, Oscar Hammerstein opens the Olympia Theatre (New York City), Olympia Theatre, the first theatre to be built in New York City's Times Square district. * November 27 – At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred 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, ''Chicago Times-Herald'' race: The first American automobile race in history is sponsored by the ''Chicago Times-Herald''. 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 11 – Svante Arrhenius becomes the first scientist to deliver quantified data about Svante Arrhenius#Greenhouse effect, 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. * December 15 – The railways of the Cape Colony, Cape of Good Hope, Colony of Natal, the Orange Free State, the South African Republic and southern Mozambique are all linked at Union Junction near Alberton, Gauteng, 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 Laurin & Klement automobile brand, predecessor of Škoda Auto, is founded as a bicycle manufacturer in Central Bohemian Region, Kingdom of Bohemia (modern-day Czech Republic). * December 24 ** Kingstown lifeboat disaster: 15 crew are lost when their Lifeboat (rescue), 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 Biltmore Estate, inviting his family and guests to celebrate his new home in Asheville, North Carolina. * December 28 – Auguste and Louis Lumière show their first moving picture film in Paris.


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* The world's first portable handheld electric drill is developed, by brothers Wilhelm Emil Fein, Wilhelm and Carl Fein in Germany. * Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposes a space elevator. * Grace Chisholm Young becomes the first woman awarded a doctorate at a German university. * W. E. B. Du Bois becomes the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University. * The Swarovski Company is founded by Armand Kosman, Franz Weis and Daniel Swarovski in the Austrian Tirol, Austria, Tyrol, for the production of crystal glass. * The name ''HP Sauce'' is first registered in the United Kingdom for a brown sauce. * The Duck Reach Power Station opens in Tasmania (the first publicly owned hydroelectric plant in the Southern Hemisphere). * The first Boxer (dog), Boxer dog show is held at
Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and ...
, Germany. * A huge crowd at the first Welsh Grand National at Ely Racecourse, Cardiff, breaks down barriers and almost overwhelms police trying to keep out gatecrashers. * German trade unions have c. 270,000 members. * The Raiffeisen model of Cooperative Credit and Saving Bank, as predecessor of Rabo Bank, a worldwide multiple financial service is founded in Netherlands.


Births


January

* January 1 ** Bert Acosta, American aviator (d. 1954) ** J. Edgar Hoover, American Federal Bureau of Investigation director (d. 1972) * January 4 – Leroy Grumman, American aeronautical engineer, test pilot and industrialist (d. 1982) *
January 5 Events Pre-1600 * 1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France. 1601–1900 *1675 – Battle of Colmar: The French a ...
– A. Edward Sutherland, English film director and actor (d. 1973) * January 9 – Lucian Truscott, American general (d. 1965) * January 11 – Graciela Amaya de García, Mexican feminist, organizer (d. 1995) * January 15 ** Leo Aryeh Mayer, Israeli professor, scholar of Islamic art (d. 1959) ** Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973) * January 19 **Isamu Chō, Japanese general (d. 1945) **Arthur Coningham (RAF officer), Arthur Coningham, British air force air marshal (d. 1948) * January 21 ** Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish-French couturier (d. 1972) ** Davíð Stefánsson, Icelandic poet (d. 1964) * January 23 – Raymond Griffith, American actor (d. 1957) * January 30 **Marianne Golz, Austrian-born opera singer and World War II resistance member (d. 1943) **Wilhelm Gustloff, German-born Swiss Nazi party leader (d. 1936)


February

* February 2 – George Halas, American football player, coach, and co-founder of the National Football League (d. 1983) * February 6 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player (d. 1948) * February 8 – Khorloogiin Choibalsan, Marshal of the Mongolian People's Republic, Prime Minister of the Mongolian People's Republic (d. 1952) * February 10 – John Black (businessman), John Black, English chairman of Standard-Triumph (d. 1965) *
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 t ...
– Max Horkheimer, German philosopher, sociologist (d. 1973) * February 15 – Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (d. 1971) * February 18 (O.S. 6 February) – Semyon Timoshenko, Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1970) * February 19 **Louis Calhern, American actor (d. 1956) **Diego Mazquiarán, Spanish matador (d. 1940) * February 21 – Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1976) *
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, American basketball coach (d. 1984) * 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

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March 3 Events Pre-1600 * 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan. *1575 ...
** Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973) ** Matthew Ridgway, United States Army Chief of Staff, Commander of NATO (d. 1993) *
March 4 Events Pre-1600 * AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth). * 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia. * 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a ...
** 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) * 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) * 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) ** 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) * March 30 – Carl Lutz, Swiss-American WWII humanitarian (d. 1975)


April

* April 1 – Alberta Hunter, American singer (d. 1984) * 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) * 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) * April 20 – Emile Christian, American musician (d. 1973) * 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) * May 2 – Lorenz Hart, US lyricist (d. 1943) * 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) * May 15 – Prescott Bush, American banker and politician (d. 1972) * 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) * May 25 – Dorothea Lange, American documentary photographer, photojournalist (d. 1965)


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) * June 5 – William Boyd (actor), William Boyd, American actor (d. 1972) * June 10 – Hattie McDaniel, actress, first African-American woman to win an Academy Award (in 1939) (d. 1952) * June 12 ** Eugénie Brazier, French cook (d. 1977) ** Wilfrid Kent Hughes, Australian Olympian and politician (d. 1970) * 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) * 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) ** Juan Miles, Argentine polo player (d. 1981) * June 28 – Kazimierz Sikorski, Polish composer (d. 1986) * June 29 ** Dorothy Stuart Russell, Australian-British pathologist (d. 1983) * June 30 – Heinz Warneke, American sculptor (d. 1983)


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) ** Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971) * 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) ** Nahum Goldmann, leading Zionist (d. 1982) * July 12 ** Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (d. 1982) ** Buckminster Fuller, American architect (d. 1983) * July 14 ** Jin Yuelin, Chinese philosopher (d. 1984) ** LeRoy Prinz, American choreographer, director and producer (d. 1983) * July 18 – Olga Spessivtseva, Russian ballerina (d. 1991) * July 19 ** Snake Henry, American baseball player (d. 1987) ** Tee Tee Luce, Burmese philanthropist (d. 1982) ** 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) ** Ken Maynard, American actor (d. 1973) * July 22 – León de Greiff, Colombian poet (d. 1976) * 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) ** Kenneth Harlan, American actor (d. 1967) * July 30 – Joseph DuMoe, American football coach (d. 1959)


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) * August 12 – Lynde D. McCormick, American admiral (d. 1956) * August 13 – István Barta, Hungarian water polo player (d. 1948) * August 16 ** Liane Haid, Austrian actress (d. 2000) ** Lucien Littlefield, American actor (d. 1960) * August 18 – Sibyl Morrison, Australian barrister (d. 1961) * August 19 – 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) * 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) * September 13 **Ruth McDevitt, American actress (d. 1976) **Bernard Warburton-Lee, British naval officer, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1940) * 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) * 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) * 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) * 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) * October 10 – Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945) * 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) * 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) * 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) ** Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1973) * October 31 – Basil Liddell Hart, British military historian (d. 1970)


November

* November 4 – Thomas G. W. Settle, American record-setting balloonist and admiral (d. 1980) * November 5 – Walter Gieseking, German pianist (d. 1956) * 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) * November 15 ** Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918) ** Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet, writer (d. 1976) * 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) ** William Tubman, 19th President of Liberia (d. 1971)


December

* December 2 – Harriet Cohen, English pianist (d. 1967) * December 3 – Sheng Shicai, Chinese warlord (d. 1970) * 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) ** Leo Ornstein, Russian-American composer (d. 2002) * December 14 ** Paul Éluard, French poet (d. 1952) ** King George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952) * December 24 – Marguerite Williams, African-American geologist (d.1991?)


Date unknown

* Corneliu Carp, Romanian general (d. 1982) * Husayn Al-Khalidi, Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1966)


Deaths


January–June

* January 3 – Mary Torrans Lathrap, American temperance reformer (b. 1838) * January 4 – William Loring (Royal Navy officer), William Loring, British admiral (b. 1811) * January 9 – 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 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. * 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland. *1539 – The first recorded race is held ...
– 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 Scotlan ...
– 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 Events Pre-1600 * 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan. *1575 ...
– 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 – 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 8 – Empress 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 – 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 – 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,