1894

1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year beginning on a Monday according to the Gregorian calendar.

Vehicle of the year 1894

Events

February

• February 15: In London at 4:51 GMT, the French anarchist Martial Boudin tries to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory, with a bomb.
• 17 February: St.Petersburg Stretched The lake of the swansPiotr Ílich Chaikovski ballet.
• 27 February: in Bolivia he was killed while former Bolivian President Hilarión Daza Groselle arrived in Uyuni

March

• March 12: Coca Cola is first sold in the United States in bottle.

April

• 1 April: in Madrid (Spain) the current building of the Royal Spanish Academy is opened.
• April 29: in Germany, the armoured SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm is assigned to the Kaiserliche Marine.

May

• 14 May: a meteor shower is observed in southern France.

June

• 20 June: at 14:04 in Tokyo, Japan, an earthquake of 6.6 left 31 dead and 157 wounded.
• June 23: In the Sorbonne (Paris), the IOC (International Olympic Committee) was founded, at the initiative of Pierre de Coubertin.

July

• 10 July: In Istanbul there is a strong earthquake of 7.0 that causes a tsunami that leaves more than 1,300 dead.
• July 14: In the first batzoki (social) of EAJ/PNV, the ikurriña is established.
• 22 July: between Paris and Ruan the first car competition is held.

August

• August 7: In Colombia, Miguel Antonio Caro assumes as president.

September

• September 17: In the framework of the First Sino-Japanese War, a Japanese fleet defeats a Chinese fleet in the battle of the Yalu River.

October

• October 15: In France, Alfred Dreyfus is arrested, starting the famous Dreyfus case.
• 22 October: In the prefecture of Yamagata, Japan, there is an earthquake of 7.0 that leaves more than 700 dead and 8,000 wounded.
• October 27: An earthquake of 7.5 leaves about 100 dead in the Province of San Juan in Argentina.

November

• 16 November: Turks kill more than 16,000 Armenians in Kurdistan.
• 26 November: in Russia, the Tsar Nicholas II marries the zarina Alexandra.

December

• 18 December: in southern Australia, women first attain the right to vote in Parliament and be elected.
• The Fraser River is overflowing in Canada. In the town of Mission (British Columbia), the water level reaches 7.85 m.
• 22 December: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, a symphonic poem for orchestra composed Claude Debussy

Art and literature

• Rudyard Kipling: The Book of the Jungle.

Science and technology

• Guglielmo Marconi discovers the telegraph without threads.
• Louis Lumière invents the cinematographer.

Sports

• 18-23 June: first session of the International Olympic Committee. It was decided that Athens would host the first Olympic Games of the modern era.
• 6 June: in the city of Karlsruhe (Germany) the football club Karlsruher SC is founded.
• July 22: In the city of Arequipa (Peru) the International Football Club is founded.
• April 16: Manchester City English Club is founded.

Births

January

• 1 January: Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (f. 1974).
• January 3: ZaSu Pitts, American actress (f. 1963).
• January 8: San Maximiliano Kolbe, Polish Franciscan friar (f. 1941).
• January 15: José Luis Bustamante and Rivero, Peruvian president (f. 1989).

February

• February 1, Augustine Bisio, Uruguayan poet (f. 1952).
• February 1st: John Ford, American producer and filmmaker (f. 1973).
• 1 February: Herman Hupfeld, American composer f. 1951).
• February 8: Rosita Renard, Chilean pianist (f. 1949).
• February 10: Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister (f. 1986).

March

• 2 March: Aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemical (f. 1980).
• 4 March: Valero Lecha, a Spanish painter (f. 1976).
• March 17: Osvaldo Capaz Montes, a Spanish military man (f. 1936).
• March 26: Viorica Ursuleac, Austrian soprano of Ukrainian origin (f. 1985).

April

• April 9: Camila Henríquez Ureña, a Dominican feminist writer (f. 1973).
• 13 April: Ludvig Irgens-Jensen, Norwegian composer (f. 1969).
• April 17: Nikita Jrushchov Soviet politician (f. 1971).
• April 23: Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist and blues composer (f. 1956).
• April 26: Rudolf Hess, German military and Nazi leader (f. 1987).
• April 30: Vernon Bartlett, a British politician and journalist (f. 1983).

May

• May 6: Gustavo Cochet, painter, recorder and Argentine writer (f. 1979).
• 6 May: Horacio Terra Arocena, Uruguayan architect (f. 1985).
• May 8: Miguel Matamoros, Cuban musician and composer f. 1971).
• 13 May: Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Icelandic president (f. 1972).
• 16 May: Joan Salvat-Papasseit, Spanish futurist poet (f. 1924).
• May 24: Josef von Sternberg, American filmmaker of Austrian origin (f. 1969).

June

• June 8: Erwin Schulhoff, Czech composer (f. 1942).
• June 13: Tay Garnett, American director (f. 1977).
• June 14: José Carlos Mariátegui, a Peruvian politician (f. 1930).
• June 16: José Amalfitani, Argentine sports leader (f. 1969).
• June 23: Edward VIII, British king (f. 1972).
• June 27: Antonio Brosa, Spanish violinist (f. 1979).

July

• July 1st: Julio Vilamajó, Uruguayan architect (f. 1948).
• 2 July: André Kertész, Hungarian photographer (f. 1985).
• July 5: Ana María Gómez Campos, Mexican professor and religious (f. 1985).
• July 5: Margarita Nelken, writer, art critic and Spanish feminist politics. (f. 1968).
• July 9: Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978 (f. 1984).
• July 13: Luisa Banti, archaeologist and Italian writer (f. 1978).
• 16 July: Vicente Lombardo Toledano, philosopher, politician and Mexican trade unionist (f. 1968).
• 17 July: Georges Lemaître, astrophysical Belgian (f. 1966).
• July 22: María Sabina, Mexican curandera (f. 1985).
• July 26: Aldous Huxley, British writer (f. 1963).

August

• 2 August: Curt Backeberg, German botanist (f. 1966).
• August 8: Emiliano R. Fernández, poet, musician and Paraguayan soldier. (f. 1949).
• August 28: Karl Böhm, Austrian orchestra director (f. 1981).

September

• September 10: Alexandr Dovzhenko, screenwriter, producer and Ukrainian filmmaker (f. 1956).
• 13 September: J. B. Priestley, British writer and playwright (f. 1984).
• September 18: Ermilo Abreu Gómez, Mexican writer, journalist and historian (f. 1971).

October

• 4 October: Józef Beck, Polish politician (f. 1944).
• October 11: Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine fighter (f. 1960).
• October 15: Moshe Sharet, politician and Israeli prime minister (f. 1955).
• October 17: Pablo de Rokha, a Chilean poet (f. 1968).
• October 27: John Lennard-Jones, mathematician and British university professor (f. 1954).

November

• 6 November: Vicente Rosales and Rosales, Salvadoran poet and journalist. (f. 1980).
• 19 November: María Wiesse, poetess, writer, essayist, ampologist and Peruvian cultural diffuser (f. 1964).

December

• 14 December: Joaquín Zamacois, Chilean composer (f. 1976).
• December 24: Georges Guynemer, French aviator (f. 1917).

Deaths

• 1 January: Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (n. 1857).
• 4 February: Adolphe Sax, lutier and Belgian inventor (n. 1814).
• 11 February: Emilio Arrieta, Spanish composer (n. 1821).
• 12 February: Hans von Bülow, pianist and director of German orchestra (n. 1830).
• 21 February: Gustave Caillebotte, French painter (n. 1848).
• February 27: Dámaso Zabalza, Spanish composer and pianist (n. 1835).
• 4 March: Arístides Rojas, journalist and Venezuelan doctor (n. 1896).
• 20 March: Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian politician (n. 1802).
• June 11: Federico Madrazo, a Spanish painter (n. 1815).
• July 9: Juventino Rosas, Mexican musician (n. 1868).
• 17 July: Leconte de Lisle, French poet (n. 1818).
• July 30: Walter Pater, writer and historian of British art (n. 1839).
• September 18: Rafael Núñez, a Colombian writer and politician (n. 1825).
• October 19: Carlos Holguín Mallarino, Colombian politician, president between 1888 and 1892 (n. 1832).
• October 24: Alexander III, Russian tsar (n. 1845).
• November 4: Manuel Payno, writer, journalist, politician and Mexican diplomat (n. 1820).
• December 3: Robert Louis Stevenson, British writer (n. 1850).
• 13 December: Juan León Mera Martínez, writer, painter and Ecuadorian politician (n. 1832).