Editing 1895 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
[[File:CosmopolitanMagazineOctober1895.jpg|thumb|150px|right|October: ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|The Cosmopolitan]]'']]
* [[October]]
** [[Rudyard Kipling]] publishes the story "[[Mowgli]] Leaves the Jungle Forever" in ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|The Cosmopolitan]]'' illustrated magazine in the United States (price 10 cents), collected in ''[[The Second Jungle Book]]'', published in England in November.
** The [[London School of Economics]] holds its first classes in London, England.
* [[October 1]] &ndash; French troops capture [[Antananarivo]], [[Madagascar]].
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Peiyang University]], predecessor of [[Tianjin University]], is founded as an institution of higher education in [[Qing dynasty]] China.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History-Tianjin University|url=http://www.tju.edu.cn/english/About_TJU/History.htm|access-date=2022-02-02|website=www.tju.edu.cn}}</ref>
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[Queen Min]], queen consort of [[Joseon]] (Korea), is [[Assassination of Empress Myeongseong|assassinated at her private residence]] within [[Gyeongbokgung]] Palace by Japanese agents. 
* [[October 23]] &ndash; The city of [[Tainan]], last stronghold of the [[Republic of Formosa]], capitulates to the forces of the [[Empire of Japan]], ending the short-lived republic, and beginning the era of [[Taiwan under Japanese rule]].
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[1895 Charleston earthquake]]: A major earthquake occurs near [[Charleston, Missouri]], in the [[New Madrid Seismic Zone]] of the [[midwestern United States]]. As of 2014, the earthquake risk for the region will be closely monitored.
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Max Skladanowsky]] and his brother Emil present a short film at the [[Berlin Wintergarten theatre]] in Germany using the [[movie projector]] they have developed.
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[George B. Selden]] is granted the first U.S. [[patent]] for an automobile.
* [[November 8]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm Röntgen]] discovers the type of [[electromagnetic radiation]] later known as [[X-ray]]s.
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Clube de Regatas do Flamengo|Flamengo]], a well known professional football club in [[Brazil]], is officially founded.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Fundação|url=http://www.flamengo.com.br/site/conteudo/detalhe/13/a-fundacao|website=Flamengo's official site|access-date=9 April 2017|language=pt|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170410051008/http://www.flamengo.com.br/site/conteudo/detalhe/13/a-fundacao|archive-date=April 10, 2017|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Oscar Hammerstein I|Oscar Hammerstein]] opens the [[Olympia Theatre (New York City)|Olympia Theatre]], the first theatre to be built in New York City's [[Times Square]] district.
* [[November 27]] &ndash; 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 his death.
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Chicago Times-Herald race|''Chicago Times-Herald'' race]]: The first American automobile race in history is sponsored by the ''[[Chicago Times-Herald]]''. Press coverage first arouses significant American interest in the automobile.<ref>{{cite book|first=Michael L.|last=Berger|title=The automobile in American history and culture: a reference guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oRwMv8iNP-MC&pg=PA278|page=278|isbn=9780313245589|year=2001|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic }}</ref>
* [[December]]
** Ottoman troops burn 3,000 [[Armenians]] alive in [[Urfa]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Armenian Tigranakert/Diarbekir and Edessa/Urfa|date=2006|publisher=Mazda Publishers|editor-last1=Hovannisian |editor-first1=Richard G.|isbn=1568591535|location=Costa Mesa, Calif.|oclc=67361643}}</ref>
** The [[Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War]] begins.
* [[December 7]] &ndash; A corps of 2,350 Italian troops, mostly [[Askari]], are crushed by 30,000 Abyssinian troops at [[Amba Alagi]].
* [[December 11]] &ndash; [[Svante Arrhenius]] becomes the first scientist to deliver quantified data about [[Svante Arrhenius#Greenhouse effect|the sensitivity of global climate to atmospheric carbon dioxide]] (the "[[Greenhouse effect]]"), as he presents his paper "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air Upon The Temperature of the Ground" to the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=k1YwAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA237 ''The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science''] April 1896. p. 237.</ref>
* [[December 15]] &ndash; The railways of the [[Cape Colony|Cape of Good Hope]], [[Colony of Natal]], the [[Orange Free State]], the [[South African Republic]] and southern [[Mozambique]] are all linked at Union Junction near [[Alberton, Gauteng|Alberton]].<ref name="SAR Line Dates 183">''Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway'', Statement No. 19, p. 183, ref. no. 200954-13</ref>
* [[December 18]] &ndash; The [[Laurin & Klement]] [[automobile]] brand, predecessor of [[Škoda Auto]], is founded as a bicycle manufacturer in central [[Kingdom of Bohemia|Bohemia]] (modern-day [[Czech Republic]]).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7bGuud7_uy0C|title=Mick Walker's European Racing Motorcycles|date=2000|publisher=Redline Books|isbn=978-0-9531311-3-6|pages=76–77}}</ref> 
* [[December 24]] 
** [[Kingstown lifeboat disaster]]: 15 crew are lost when their [[Lifeboat (rescue)|life-boat]] capsizes while trying to rescue the crew of the ''Palme'' off Kingstown (modern-day [[Dún Laoghaire]]), near [[Dublin]], Ireland.
** [[George Washington Vanderbilt II]] officially opens his [[Biltmore Estate]], inviting his family and guests to celebrate his new home in [[Asheville, North Carolina]].
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Auguste and Louis Lumière]] make what is probably the first commercial [[public screening]] of projected moving picture films to a paying audience, at the [[Salon Indien du Grand Café]] in Paris.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Présentation Du Cinématographe Lumière|url=https://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/presentation-du-cinematographe-lumiere/|access-date=2023-03-28|website=Encyclopædia Universalis|date=March 27, 2002 }}</ref>