1895

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[edit] Events of 1895

January 5 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank in Paris and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.

February 9 - Mintonette, which would come to be known as volleyball, was invented.
February 11 - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C (measured as -17°F) was recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. This record was equalled in 1982 and again in 1995.
February 14 - First showing of Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest (St. James' Theatre in London).

April 6 - Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
April 14 - A major earthquake severely damages Ljubljana, Slovenia.
April 16 - The town of Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, is incorporated.
April 17 - The Treaty of Shimonoseki (also known as Treaty of Maguan) was 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 the Fengtien province, Taiwan, and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
April 22 - Gongche Shangshu movement - 603 candidates signed a ten-thousand-word petition against the Treaty of Shimonoseki.

May 2 - Gongche Shangshu movement - Thousands of Beijing scholars and citizens protested against Treaty of Shimonoseki.
May 24 - Anti-Japanese officials led by Tang Ching-sung in Taiwan declared independence from Qing, forming the short-lived Republic of Formosa.
May 25 - Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "sodomy and gross indecency" and is sentenced to serve two years in a prison in Reading.

October 1895 issue: The Cosmopolitan, illustrated.

July 15 - Archie MacLaren scores County Championship record innings of 424 for Lancashire against Somerset at Taunton.

September 3 - The first professional football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club. (Latrobe won the contest 12-0.).
September 18 - Booker T. Washington delivers the Atlanta Compromise Speech.
September 18 - D D Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, delivers the first chiropractic adjustment of the spine to Harvey Lillard, allegedly restoring his hearing and founding what would become the largest licensed non-medical doctorate level health care profession in the U.S.

October 22 - Train wreck at Montparnasse Station in Paris.
October - Rudyard Kipling publishes the story "Mowgli Leaves the Jungle Forever" in The Cosmopolitan illustrated magazine (price 10 cents).

November 5 - George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
November 8 - Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
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 he dies (he died of a cerebral hemorrhage on December 10, 1896).

December 28 - Auguste and Louis Lumière display their first moving picture film in Paris.

Grace Chisholm Young becomes the first woman awarded a doctorate at a German university.

Streetcar in NYC, 8th Avenue.

The gold reserve of the U.S. Treasury was saved when J. P. Morgan and the Rothschilds loaned $65 million worth of gold to the United States government.