Important Historical Events of the year 1895, Year 1895 in History

1. Birthday Age Calculator
2. Historical Events By Year
3. 19th Century Years
4. Important Historical Events of the year 1895

List of 1895 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1895

What happened in the year 1895?

Date	Event
January 5, 1895	Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
January 12, 1895	The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
January 13, 1895	First Italo-Ethiopian War: The war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
February 1, 1895	Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
February 9, 1895	William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
February 24, 1895	Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence; the war ends along with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
March 19, 1895	Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
March 22, 1895	Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
April 3, 1895	The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
April 8, 1895	In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
April 17, 1895	The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. 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 24, 1895	Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
May 7, 1895	In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
May 25, 1895	Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
May 25, 1895	The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president.
June 11, 1895	Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
June 13, 1895	Émile Levassor wins the world's first real automobile race. Levassor completed the 732-mile course, from Paris to Bordeaux and back, in just under 49 hours, at a then-impressive speed of about 15 miles per hour.
June 20, 1895	The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
June 27, 1895	The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
June 28, 1895	The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
August 27, 1895	Japanese invasion of Taiwan: Battle of Baguashan: The Empire of Japan decisively defeats a smaller Formosan army at Changhua, crippling the short-lived Republic of Formosa and leading to its surrender two months later.
August 31, 1895	German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
September 3, 1895	John Brallier becomes the first openly professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12
September 18, 1895	The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
October 4, 1895	Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
October 8, 1895	Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
October 21, 1895	The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
October 22, 1895	In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100 ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33 ft) to the road below.
October 31, 1895	The strongest earthquake in the Midwestern United States since 1812 strikes near Charleston, Missouri, causing damage and killing at least two.
November 5, 1895	George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
November 8, 1895	While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
November 27, 1895	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.
November 28, 1895	The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
December 5, 1895	New Haven Symphony Orchestra of Connecticut performs its first concert.
December 28, 1895	The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.
December 28, 1895	Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.