1894

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s

Years: 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 - 1894 - 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899

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Events

• January 8 - A fire at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago causes a good deal of damage.
• January 9 - New England Telephone and Telegraph[?] installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard (Lexington, Massachusetts).
• March 12 - For the first time Coca-Cola is sold in bottles.
• March 25 - Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.
• May 1 - Coxey's Army arrives in Washington D.C.
• May 11 - Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company[?] workers go on a "wildcat" (without Union approval) strike in Illinois.
• June 23 - International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
• July 4 - The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
• October 24 - Nicholas II succeeds his father Alexander III as Tsar of All Russias.
• December 18 - Women in South Australia become the first in Australia to gain the right to vote and to be elected to Parliament.
• December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Canada's fifth prime minister.

Art, Culture & Fashion

• 1894 in film
• 1894 in literature
• 1894 in music
• 1894 in sports
  • March 22 - The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.

Births

• Chaim Soutine, painter
• January 30 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (+ 1943)
• February 1 - John Ford, director, producer (+ 1973)
• February 8 - Ludwig Marcuse[?], author and philosopher (+ 1971)
• February 10 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of Great Britain[?] (+ 1986)
• February 11 - Alfonso Leng, composer.
• February 11 - Isaac Kolthooff[?] chemist
• February 14 - Jack Benny, actor, comedian (+ 1974)
• February 28 - Ben Hecht, playwright, film writer (+ 1964)
• March 17 - Paul Green[?], novelist, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (+ 1981)
• March 19 - Joe Venuti[?], jazz musician and violinist (+ 1978)
• March 19 - Moms Mabley[?], comedienne (+ 1975)
• April 15 - Bessie Smith, blues singer.
• April 17 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader.
• April 26 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (+ 1987)
• May 11 - Martha Graham[?], dancer, choreographer (+ 1991)
• May 20 - Adela Rogers St. Johns[?], author (+ 1988)
• May 27 - Dashiell Hammett, author of detective novels (+1961)
• May 31 - Fred Allen, comedian.
• June 14 - Grand Duchess Marie Adelaide of Luxembourg[?]
• June 23 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
• September 15 - Jean Renoir, Film Director
• October 7 - Del Lord, pioneer Hollywood director (+ 1970)
• October 14 - E. E. Cummings, American poet.

Deaths

• February 4 - Adolphe Sax, instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone
• February 11 - Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera[?], composer
• March 30 - Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer
• June 3 - Karl Eduard Zachariae Expert on Byzantine Law
• October 24 - Alexander III of Russia, Tsar
• November 20 - Anton Rubinstein, pianist and composer
• December 3 - Robert Louis Stevenson, author
• December 12 - John Sparrow David Thompson, Canadian prime minister