| January 1 | Denmark adopts Mid-European time |
| January 1 | Manchester Ship Canal in England opens to traffic |
| January 4 | France ratifies Duple Alliance with Russia |
| January 7 | Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing |
| January 8 | Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire |
| January 9 | "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters |
| January 9 | Georges Feydeau's "Un la Patte," premieres in Paris |
| January 13 | Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops |
| January 21 | Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 500m in 47.8 sec |
| January 23 | G W Bunbury of Dublin sets shorthand record of 250 wpm for 10 min |
| January 25 | James J. Corbett KOs Charley Mitchell in 3 for heavyweight boxing title |
| January 27 | 1st college basketball game, University of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11 |
| January 27 | Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park |
| January 30 | Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit |
| January 30 | U.S. flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Admiral Benham |
| February 2 | U.S. warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island |
| February 3 | 1st U.S. steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me |
| February 5 | Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms |
| February 8 | Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks |
| February 14 | Venus is both a morning star and evening star |
| February 16 | British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast |
| February 23 | Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA's awarded cup by trustees as Ottawa refuses to travel to Toronto to play |
| February 24 | Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of) |
| March 3 | 1st Greek-language publication in U.S. begins, "NY Atlantis" |
| March 3 | 4th and last British government of Gladstone resigns |
| March 4 | Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed |
| March 5 | Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in U.S. |
| March 8 | New York passes 1st state dog license law |
| March 12 | Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday and Friday |
| March 13 | J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate |
| March 16 | Jules Massenet's opera "Thais," premieres in Paris |
| March 17 | U.S. and China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering U.S. |
| March 22 | Stanley Cup: Mont AAA beat Ottawa Generals, 3-1 (1st Cup game ever) |
| March 24 | 37 miners killed at Franklin, Washington |
| March 25 | Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon Oh for Wash |
| April 5 | 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn |
| April 5 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Empty House" |
| April 9 | 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz |
| April 12 | British and Belgian secret accord on dividing Central-Africa |
| April 14 | 1st public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures) |
| April 14 | Thomas Edison presents "peep show" device |
| April 19 | Jules Massenet's opera "Werther," premieres in New York City |
| April 20 | 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase |
| April 21 | George Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man," premieres in London |
| April 24 | French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18 |
| April 24 | Phillies Lave Cross hits for cycle vs Brooklyn Dodgers |
| April 29 | Commonweal of Christ (Coxey's Army) arrives in Wash, DC 500 strong to protest unemployment; Coxey arrested for trespassing at Capitol |
| May 11 | American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co |
| May 12 | Ludwig Englander's musical "Passing Show," premieres in New York City |
| May 14 | Fire in Boston bleachers spreads to 170 adjoining buildings |
| May 15 | 20th Kentucky Derby: Frank Goodale aboard Chant wins in 2:41 |
| May 16 | Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium and 170 other buildings |
| May 17 | 19th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Assignee wins in 1:49 |
| May 23 | William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal |
| May 26 | Emanuel Lasker (26) becomes World Champion chess player |
| May 28 | Belgium Princess Josephine marries Prince Karl von Hohenzollern |
| May 30 | Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 home runs in 1 baseball game |
| May 31 | John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal" |
| June 15 | Phillies beat Cincinnati Reds, 21-8 |
| June 17 | 1st U.S. poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont |
| June 18 | Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate |
| June 19 | 28th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Henry of Navarre wins in 1:56 |
| June 21 | Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company |
| June 22 | Harry Houdini marries Bessie Rahner |
| June 24 | Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years |
| June 25 | American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike |
| June 26 | Karl Benz of Germany receives U.S. patent for gasoline-driven auto |
| June 28 | Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday |
| June 30 | Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid |
| June 30 | London Tower Bridge opens |
| July 2 | Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers |
| July 4 | Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st U.S. autos at 6 MPH |
| July 4 | Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B. Dole as president |
| July 6 | Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike |
| July 16 | Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan and England |
| July 20 | 2000 federal troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike |
| August 2 | Death duties 1st introduced in Britain |
| August 2 | Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter |
| August 16 | Indian chiefs from the Sioux and Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity and return to their old Indian faith |
| August 17 | Phils get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4 |
| August 18 | Congress creates Bureau of Immigration |
| August 25 | Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed |
| August 26 | Social-Democratic Worker's party (SDAP) forms |
| August 27 | Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court |
| August 30 | Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger |
| August 31 | Phillies Billy Hamilton steals 7 bases |
| September 2 | Amsterdam Municipal theater opens |
| September 2 | Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die |
| September 4 | In New York City, 12,000 tailors went on strike protesting sweat shops |
| September 4 | Soccer team Veendam 1894 forms |
| September 14 | Hottentotten uprising in Southwest-Africa fails |
| September 15 | Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang |
| September 27 | Aqueduct racetrack opens in NY |
| September 28 | Simon Marks and Tom Spencer open Penny Bazaar in Manchester |
| October 1 | Civic organization, Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben founded in Omaha, Nebraska |
| October 15 | Captain Alfred Dreyfus arrested accused of espionage |
| October 17 | Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man |
| October 26 | German emperor Wilhelm II fires Chancellor Leo von Caprivi and premier Botho zu Eulenburg |
| October 28 | German emperor Wilhelm II fires chancellor Leo von Caprivi and premier Botho zu Eulenburg |
| October 29 | 1st election of Hawaiian Republic |
| October 30 | Daniel Cooper patents time clock |
| November 1 | Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr. Roux of Paris |
| November 5 | Frederick Lugards expedition reaches Nikki |
| November 5 | Richard Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegels," premieres |
| November 10 | Fred Lugard signs accord with king Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki |
| November 14 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Golden Pince-Nez" |
| November 16 | 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan |
| November 16 | French Captain Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki West Africa |
| November 17 | Daily Racing Form founded |
| November 18 | 1st comic strip "Origin of a New Species," by Richard Outcault |
| November 18 | 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (New York World) |
| November 19 | 1st mushroom on a stamp (China 1 and 5 Ap) |
| November 19 | Dutch troops occupy and plunders palace of Tjakra Negara, Lombok |
| November 20 | U.S. intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua |
| November 25 | Greenback (Independent) Party organizes in Indianapolis |
| November 26 | King Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki signs accord with France |
| December 5 | Georges Feydeaus' "L'hotel du lobre echange," premoeres on Paros |
| December 9 | Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium |
| December 14 | Test Cricket debut of Joe Darling, Ernie Jones, Archie MacLaren |
| December 20 | England beat Australia by 10 runs in the 1st six-day Test Cricket |
| December 22 | Debussy's "Prelude l'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres |
| December 22 | Dutch coast hit by hurricane |
| December 22 | French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated) |
| December 22 | United States Golf Association forms (New York City) |
| December 23 | Debussy's ballet "L'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres in Paris |
| December 24 | Scheveningse fishing boats destroyed by storm |
| December 24 | Soccer team Achilles '94 forms in Axes |
| December 25 | 1st midwestern football team to play on west coast, University of Chicago defeats Stanford 24-4 at Palo Alto, California in football |
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