1894

Year 1894 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 12-day slower ).

January - March



 * - receives a patent for  film.
 * - A fire at the -1894 in  causes a good deal of damage.
 * - installs the first -operated.
 * - 04:51, French Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the , ,  with a bomb.
 * -, Canadian politician and contractor, is released from prison after serving time for defrauding the government.
 * - The : Great fire in ; over 1,000 buildings are destroyed.
 * - For the first time, is sold in bottles.
 * - of planets as  transited the  as seen from, and Mercury and Venus both simultaneously transited the Sun as seen from.
 * End of the rule of chief
 * -, the first significant American protest march, departs for

April - June

 * May - Outbreak of in the  area of . The disease would eventually kill a total of 2,552 people in the territory that year.
 * Coxey's Army arrives in Washington D.C.
 * break out in.
 * - : Three thousand workers go on a "wildcat" (without  approval) strike in.
 * in Southern.
 * is opened in, ,.
 * - The and  are opened by.
 * - becomes a  colony.
 * - is founded at the, , at the initiative of Baron.
 * - Assassination of,.
 * - in London opened for traffic.
 * - Assassination of,.
 * - in London opened for traffic.

July - September

 * - The short-lived is proclaimed by.
 * - Declaration of war between the of  and the, over their rival claims of influence on their common ally, the  of . The event marks the start of the first.
 * - is executed for the assassination of.
 * - : A in  kills more than 450 people.
 * - In, 12,000 tailors against  working conditions.

October - December

 * - The of,  has its first formal meeting.
 * - is arrested for spying:  begins.
 * - Domenico Menegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing industrially.
 * - n Tsar dies and is succeeded by his son.
 * - is incorporated as a city.
 * - Women in become the first in  to gain the right to vote and to be elected to Parliament.
 * - becomes 's fifth.
 * - French army officer is convicted of treason in the midst of a European controversy known as the.

Undated

 * Western countries give up their s in.
 * founds the.
 * writes "The Story of An Hour" (fiction).
 * , London, is founded by the Moss family.
 * In the, the is founded.
 * is built, becoming the first chartered high school west of the.

January - June

 * -, Indian physicist (d. )
 * -, American composer (d. )
 * - King (d. )
 * -, American jazz musician (d. )
 * -, American artist and illustrator (d. )
 * -, German philosopher (d. )
 * -, (d. )
 * -, Chilean composer (d. )
 * -, American actor and comedian (d. )
 * -, of the Age, was born in India (d. )
 * -, American playwright, and film writer (d. )
 * -, novelist and -winning playwright (d. )
 * -, American comedienne (d. )
 * -, Russian astronomer (d.)
 * -, Indian industrialist, Gandhian, and educationalist (d. )
 * - English abstract artist (d. )
 * -, thirteenth (d. )
 * -, American blues singer (d. )
 * -, Soviet politician (d. )
 * -, Nazi official (d. )
 * -, Russian/American musicologist (d. )
 * -, American dancer and choreographer (d. )
 * -, American encyclopædia editor (d. )
 * -, the of Kanchi mutt from 1907 to 1994 and a renowqned sage and religious scholar.(d.)
 * , French writer (d. )
 * , American author (d. )
 * -, American comedian (d. )
 * -, Hungarian Film Producer (d. )
 * -, Canadian publisher (d. )
 * -, Italian fencer (d. )
 * - (d. )
 * - King (d. )
 * - King (d. )

July - December

 * -, Russian physicist, laureate (d. )
 * -, Ukrainian writer (d. )
 * -, second (d. )
 * -, English author (d. )
 * -, baseball player (d. )
 * - Katie Harris, folklorist (d. )
 * -, Austrian conductor (d. )
 * -, footballer (d. )
 * -, Austrian writer (d. )
 * -, American film director, producer, and actor (d. )
 * -, English novelist and playwright (d. )
 * -, Polish poet (d. )
 * -, French film director (d. )
 * -, Scottish golfer (d. )
 * -, South African athlete (d. )
 * -, Hollywood director (d. )
 * -, American poet (d. )
 * -, second (d. )
 * -, American author (d. )
 * -, French photographer and writer (d. )
 * -, Turkish poet, songwriter and saz player (d. )
 * -, German aerodynamics engineer (d. )
 * -, Egyptian impressionist painter (d. )
 * -, Canadian communications scholar. (d. )
 * -, English cricketer (d. )
 * -, American mathematician (d. )
 * -, American singer and entertainer (d. )
 * -,   manufacturer and executive in  (d.)
 * -, American writer (d. )
 * -, American conductor (d. )
 * -, twelfth (d. )
 * -, Finnish Prime Minister (d. )
 * -, Poet (d. )
 * -, Polish actress (d. )


 * See also .

January - June

 * -, German physicist (b. )
 * -, patron of Tchaikovsky (b. )
 * -, Belgian instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone (b. )
 * -, Scottish novelist (b. )
 * -, American baseball player (b. )
 * -, Hungarian politician (b. )
 * -, German jurist and expert on Byzantine law (b. )
 * - (b. )
 * -, opera singer (b. )
 * -, French statesman (b. ) (assassinated)
 * -, French statesman (b. ) (assassinated)

July - December

 * -, composer (b. )
 * -, historian (b. )
 * -, Mexican folk hero (b. )
 * - Tsar (b. )
 * -, Russian pianist and composer (b. )
 * -, Swiss-born orientalist (b. )
 * -, Scottish author (b. )
 * -, Russian mathematician (b. )
 * -, (b. )
 * -, Maharajah of Mysore (b. )


 * See also .