Editing 1894 (section)

=== 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.