Editing 1894 (section)

== Events ==
=== January–March ===
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Franco-Russian Alliance|A military alliance]] is established between the [[French Third Republic]] and the [[Russian Empire]].
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[William Kennedy Dickson]] receives a patent for [[motion picture]] film in the United States.
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[New England Telephone and Telegraph]] installs the first [[Battery (electricity)|battery]]-operated [[telephone switchboard]], in [[Lexington, Massachusetts]].
* [[February 12]] &ndash; French [[anarchist]] [[Émile Henry (anarchist)|Émile Henry]] sets off a bomb in a Paris café, killing one person and wounding twenty. 
* [[February 15]]  
** In Korea, peasant unrest erupts in the [[Donghak Peasant Revolution]], a massive revolt of followers of the [[Donghak]] movement.<ref>''A New Modern History of East Asia'', ed. by Eckhardt Fuchs, et al. (Gottingen: V&R unipress, 2017) p106</ref>  Both China and Japan send military forces, claiming to come to the ruling [[Joseon]] dynasty government's aid.
** French [[anarchist]] [[Martial Bourdin]] dies of an accidental detonation of his own bomb, next to the [[Royal Observatory, Greenwich]], in London, England.
* [[March 1]] &ndash; The [[Local Government Act 1894|Local Government Act]] (coming into effect December 1894–January 1895) reforms [[local government]] in Britain, creating a system of [[Urban district (England and Wales)|urban]] and [[rural district]]s with elected councils, with elected civil [[Parish councils in England|parish council]]s in rural areas, and gives women, irrespective of marital status, the right to vote and stand in local (but not national) elections.<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=321–322|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[March 2]]  &ndash; [[William Ewart Gladstone|William Gladstone]] resigns as British Prime Minister. 
* [[March 12]] &ndash; [[Coca-Cola]] is sold in bottles for the first time.
* [[March 21]] &ndash; A [[Syzygy (astronomy)|syzygy]] of planets occurs, as Mercury transits the Sun as seen from Venus, and Mercury and Venus both transit the Sun as seen from Saturn, but no two of the transits are simultaneous.
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Coxey's Army]] (of the unemployed), the first significant protest march in the United States, departs from [[Massillon, Ohio]], for [[Washington, D.C.]]

=== April–June ===
* [[April 11]] &ndash; Britain establishes a protectorate over [[Uganda]].<ref name=CBH/>
* [[April 16]] &ndash; [[Manchester City Football Club]] is formed in north-west England under this name.
* [[April 21]] &ndash;  A [[Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike of 1894|bituminous coal miners' strike]] closes mines across the central United States.
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[Canada]]'s largest known landslide occurs in [[Saint-Alban, Quebec]], displacing {{Convert|185|e6m3|}} of rock and dirt, and leaving a {{Convert|40|m|adj=on}} scar that covers {{Convert|4.6|e6m2|}}.<ref name="1894landslide">{{cite web|title=Landslides|url=https://www.getprepared.gc.ca/cnt/hzd/lndslds-en.aspx|website=Get Prepared|publisher=Public Safety Canada|access-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref>
* [[May]] &ndash; [[Third plague pandemic]]: [[Bubonic plague]] breaks out in the [[Tai Ping Shan Street|Tai Ping Shan]] area of Hong Kong (by the end of the year, the death toll is 2,552 people); it also breaks out this year in [[Guangzhou|Canton]].
* [[May 1]] &ndash; In the United States:
** [[Coxey's Army]] arrives in Washington; Coxey is arrested on the Capitol grounds.
** The [[May Day riots of 1894|May Day Riots]] (against unemployment) break out in [[Cleveland, Ohio]].
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Pullman Strike]]: Three thousand [[Pullman Palace Car Company]] factory workers go on a "wildcat" (without union approval) strike in [[Illinois]].
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Blackpool Tower]] is opened in [[Blackpool]], in north-west England, as a visitor attraction.
* [[May 21]] &ndash; The [[Manchester Ship Canal]] and [[Salford Quays|Docks]] are officially opened by [[Queen Victoria]], linking the previously landlocked industrial city of [[Manchester]], in north-west England, to the [[Irish Sea]].
* [[June 22]] &ndash; [[Dahomey]] becomes a French colony.
* [[June 23]] &ndash; The [[International Olympic Committee]] is founded at the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]], Paris, at the initiative of Baron [[Pierre de Coubertin]].
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[Marie François Sadi Carnot|Sadi Carnot]], [[president of France]], is assassinated in Lyon.
* [[June 30]] – [[Tower Bridge]] in London opens for traffic.
[[File:BlackpoolTower OwlofDoom.jpg|thumb|170px|right| [[May 14]]: [[Blackpool Tower]].]]

=== July–September ===
* [[July 4]]
** The short-lived [[Republic of Hawaii]] is proclaimed by [[Sanford B. Dole]].
** The [[Association football|football]] club [[FC La Chaux-de-Fonds]] is founded in Switzerland.
* [[July 6]] &ndash; A fire at the site of the [[1893]] [[World's Columbian Exposition]] in Chicago destroys most of the remaining buildings.<ref>{{cite book|first=Chaim M.|last=Rosenberg|title=America at the Fair: Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|year=2008}}</ref>
* [[July 16]] &ndash; The United Kingdom and Japan sign the [[Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation]], as the U.K. becomes the first of the Western nations to agree to give up its [[Extraterritoriality|extraterritorial right]]s in Japan.<ref>{{cite book|first=Ian H.|last=Nish|title=The Anglo-Japanese Alliance: The Diplomacy of Two Island Empires 1984-1907|publisher=A&C Black|year=2013|page=10}}</ref>
* [[July 22]] &ndash; The [[Paris–Rouen (motor race)|Paris–Rouen]] Competition for Horseless Carriages, the first automobile competition, is held.
* [[August 1]] &ndash; War is declared between the [[Qing Empire]] of China and the [[Empire of Japan]] over their rival claims of influence on their common ally, the [[Joseon]] dynasty of Korea. The event marks the start of the [[First Sino-Japanese War]].
* [[August 15]] &ndash; Italian anarchist [[Sante Geronimo Caserio]] is executed by guillotine for the assassination of French [[Sadi Carnot (statesman)|President Carnot]] in Lyon.
* [[August 31]] &ndash; New Zealand enacts the world's first [[minimum wage law]], to take effect on January 1, in the passage of the ''Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act of 1894''.<ref>''Minimum-wage Legislation in the United States and Foreign Countries'', ed. by Charles Henry Verrill  (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1915) p168</ref>
* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[Great Hinckley Fire]]: A [[forest fire]] in [[Hinckley, Minnesota]], kills more than 450 people.
* [[September 4]] &ndash; In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against [[sweatshop]] working conditions.
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Richard Strauss]] marries [[Pauline De Ahna]].
* [[September 26]] &ndash; The {{SS|Ohio|1875}} and the schooner barge ''Ironton'' collide and sink in [[Lake Huron]]. While the crew of the ''Ohio'' is rescued, five of the other craft's seven-member crew, including the captain, are lost.

=== October–December ===
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[Petrópolis]] becomes the capital of the Brazilian state of [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|Rio de Janeiro]], until [[1902]].<ref>''Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brazileiro'' (Imprensa Nacional, 1906) p348</ref> 
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[Dreyfus affair]]: French Army officer [[Alfred Dreyfus]] is arrested for spying.
* [[October 30]] &ndash; Domenico Menegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing [[pandoro]] industrially.
* [[November 1]]
[[File:Tsar Nicholas II -1898.jpg|thumb|145px|right| [[November 1]]: [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]] becomes [[Tsar of Russia]].]]
** Emperor [[Alexander III of Russia]] is succeeded by his son, [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]].
** The first issue of [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'' magazine]] is published in Cincinnati, Ohio by [[William Donaldson]] and James Hennegan. Initially, it covers the advertising and bill posting industry, and is at the time known as ''Billboard Advertising''.
* [[November 6]] &ndash; Republicans win by a landslide in the [[United States House of Representatives elections, 1894|United States House of Representatives elections]], which sets the stage for the decisive [[1896 United States presidential election|presidential election of 1896]].
* [[November 7]] &ndash; The Masonic [[Grande Loge de France]] is founded, splitting from the larger and older [[Grand Orient de France]].
* [[November 21]] &ndash; [[First Sino-Japanese War]]: [[Battle of Lushunkou]] &ndash; Japanese troops secure a decisive victory over the Chinese, capture the port city of [[Lüshunkou]], and begin the [[Port Arthur massacre (China)|Port Arthur massacre]], in which more than 1,000 Chinese servicemen and civilians die.
* [[November 26]] &ndash; Wedding of [[Nicholas II of Russia]] and [[Alix of Hesse]] in the [[Grand Church of the Winter Palace]] at [[Saint Petersburg]].
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Kate Chopin]]'s feminist short story "[[The Story of an Hour]]" is first published, in the American magazine ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]''.
* [[December 18]] &ndash; Women in [[South Australia]] become the first in Australia to [[Constitutional Amendment (Adult Suffrage) Act 1894|gain the right to vote]] and the first in the world with the right to be elected to Parliament, taking effect from [[1895]], after decades of activism.
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[Mackenzie Bowell]] becomes Canada's fifth [[Prime Minister of Canada|prime minister]].
* [[December 22]] &ndash; [[Dreyfus affair]]: French Army officer [[Alfred Dreyfus]] is convicted of treason.

=== Date unknown ===
* The [[Society of Beaux-Arts Architects]] is founded in the United States.
* Oil is discovered on the Osage Indian reservation, making the [[Osage Nation|Osage]] the "richest group of people in the world".
* Edward B. Marks and Joe Stern publish the waltz ''[[The Little Lost Child]]'' in the United States, promoting the playing of the waltz with slides projected by a magic lantern, the earliest version of [[music video]] known as the [[illustrated song]].
*[[Spillers Records]] is founded in Cardiff (Wales), the world's oldest record shop still in operation.
* The ''[[Liga Femeilor Române]]'', the first women's organisation in Romania, is founded.