1895 Calendar
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1895 Historical Event(s)
April 17, 1895
– The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
May 24, 1895
– Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
June 20, 1895
– The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
June 28, 1895
– Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis claim to Barony of Arizona is “wholly fictitious and fraudulent”.
July 11, 1895
– The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists.
August 31, 1895
– German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.
September 18, 1895
– Booker T. Washington delivers the “Atlanta Compromise” address.
October 21, 1895
– The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
October 22, 1895
– In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse.
December 28, 1895
– The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema.
Who Were Born On 1895?
January 1, 1895
– J. Edgar Hoover, American FBI director (d. 1972)
January 21, 1895
– Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (d. 1972)
May 9, 1895
– Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1961)
May 17, 1895
– Saul Adler FRS, Russian-born British-Israeli expert on parasitology (d. 1966)
July 11, 1895
– Dolly Wilde, English socialite (d. 1941)
August 3, 1895
– Neva Morris, Iowa’s oldest person (d. 2010)
October 8, 1895
– Juan Perón, President of Argentina (d. 1974)
November 19, 1895
– Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer and architect (d. 1964)
December 3, 1895
– Anna Freud, Austrian-born British psychoanalyst (d. 1982)
December 24, 1895
– Noel Streatfeild, English children’s writer (d. 1986)