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| 1895 |
| | | Australia has a catchy new song in "Waltzing Matilda", written by Banjo Paterson to music by Christina Macpherson | |
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| 1895 |
| | | The USGA (US Golf Association) stages the first national amateur and open championships | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Oscar Wilde is sent to Reading Gaol to serve a two-year sentence with hard labour after being convicted of homosexuality | |
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| 1895 |
| | | The British government takes responsibility for Kenya, as the East Africa Protectorate | |
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| c. 1895 |
| | | General Alfred von Schlieffen devises plans for a potential two-pronged attack against France and Russia in a swift war | |
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| 1895 |
| | | German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen discovers rays that can penetrate light-proof barriers, and names them x-rays because their nature is as yet unknown | |
|  | Roentgen's X-ray of his wife's hand
Wellcome Library, London
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| 1895 |
| | | Lenin is arrested in St Petersburg, along with other members of the Union for the Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Leander Jameson leads a disastrous raid into the Transvaal, in an attempt to topple Paul Kruger's government | |
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| 1895 |
| | | H.G. Wells publishes The Time Machine, a story about a Time Traveller whose first stop on his journey is the year 802701 | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Gwen John persuades a reluctant father to allow her to follow her younger brother to the Slade School of Art in London | |
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