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| 1894 |
| | | Claude Debussy's tone poem L'Après-midi d'un faune has its premiere in Paris | |
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| 1894 |
| | | The first competitive event for cars is held over a distance of 78 miles from Paris to Rouen | |
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| 1894 |
| | | The tenor Enrico Caruso makes his debut in his home town of Naples | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Swan Lake is performed in St Petersburg in its definitive version, with choreography shared between Lucien Petipa and Lev Ivanov | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Oscar Wilde's most brilliant comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest is performed in London's St. James Theatre | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Japan's navy destroys the remains of China's fleet at Weihaiwei | |
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| 1895 |
| | | The territory south of the Zambezi is given the name Rhodesia, in honour of the man who has colonized it | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Scottish chemist William Ramsay isolates the element helium | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Stephen Crane succeeds handsomely with his second novel, The Red Badge of Courage, set in the American Civil War | |
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| 1895 |
| | | At the end of the Sino-Japanese war China cedes to Japan the island of Taiwan, together with Port Arthur and the Liadong peninsula | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Khama III, the king of Bechuanaland, travels to London to demand the continuing protection of the British crown | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Joshua Slocum sails from Boston in his sloop Spray for his attempt at a solo circumnavigation of the world | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Oscar Wilde loses a libel case that he has brought against the marquess of Queensberry for describing him as a sodomite | |
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| 1895 |
| | | 21-year-old Guglielmo Marconi succeeds in transmitting a radio signal more than a mile at his home near Bologna | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Lord Rosebery's Liberal government suffers a defeat in the House of Commons, and Lord Salisbury returns as Britain's prime minister | |
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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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| 1895 |
| | | A promenade concert, presented by Henry Wood in London's Queen's Hall, turns out to be the beginning of a very long tradition | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Utah is admitted to the union as the 45th state, after the Mormons agree to give up polygamy | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Cecil Rhodes' involvement with the Jameson raid forces his resignation as the Cape Colony prime minister | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème has an unsuccessful premiere in Turin | |
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| 1896 |
| | | The prolific US poet Edwin Arlington Robinson publishes The Torrent and the Night Before, his first poems about the fictional Tilbury Town | |
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| 1896 |
| | | The Ethiopian emperor, Menelik II, inflicts a shattering defeat on Italian forces at Aduwa | |
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| 1896 |
| | | The US Supreme Court rules in Plessey v. Ferguson that it is legal for a state to provide 'separate but equal' facilities for blacks | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Canada's first French-speaking and Roman Catholic premier, Wilfrid Laurier, wins the first of four consecutive spells as premier | |
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| 1896 |
| | | French physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel discovers in uranium salt the phenomenon of natural radioactivity | |
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| 1896 |
| | | US engineer Henry Ford test drives his first four-wheel internal-combustion vehicle, the Quadricycle, built in a coal shed behind his home | |
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