Editing 1894 (section)

=== 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.]]