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Year 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1894

January 7 - William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
January 9 - New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard (Lexington, Massachusetts).
February 13 - Founding of Het Gezelschap "Practische Studie", studyassociation of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands.
February 15 - 04:51 GMT, French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory, London, England with a bomb.
March 1 - Thomas McGreevy, Canadian politician and contractor, is released from prison after serving time for defrauding the government.
March 4 - The First Sino-Japanese War: Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings are destroyed.
March 12 - For the first time, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles.
March 21 - Syzygy of planets as Mercury transited the Sun as seen from Venus, and Mercury and Venus both transited the Sun as seen from Saturn. But no two of the transits were simultaneous.
March 25 - Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.

May - Outbreak of bubonic plague in the Tai Ping Shan area of Hong Kong. By the end of the year the death toll is 2,552 people.
May 1

May 11 - Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a "wildcat" (without union approval) strike in Illinois.
May 14

May 21 - The Manchester Ship Canal and Docks are opened by Queen Victoria.
June 22 - Dahomey becomes a French colony.
June 23 - International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
June 24 - Assassination of Sadi Carnot, president of France.
June 30 - Tower Bridge in London opened for traffic.

July - A fire at the site of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago destroys most of the remaining buildings.
July 4 - The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
August 1 - Declaration of war 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 - Sante Geronimo Caserio is executed for the assassination of Marie François Sadi Carnot.
September 1 - Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota kills more than 450 people.
September 4 - In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.

October 1 - The Owl Club of Cape Town, South Africa has its first formal meeting.
October 15 - Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying: Dreyfus affair begins.
October 30 - Domenico Menegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
November 1 - Russian Tsar Alexander III is succeeded by his son Nicholas II.
November 7 - Grande loge de france founded in France splitting from the larger and older Grand Orient de France
November 5 - West Palm Beach, Florida is incorporated as a city.
December 18 - Women in South Australia become the first in Australia to gain the right to vote and to be elected to Parliament.
December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Canada's fifth prime minister.
December 22 - French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is convicted of treason in the midst of a European controversy known as the Dreyfus Affair.

Western countries give up their extraterritorial rights in Japan.
Grace Kimmins founds the Guild of the Poor Brave Things.
Kate Chopin writes "The Story of An Hour" (fiction).
National College of Music, London, is founded by the Moss family.
In the U.S., the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects is founded.
Elyria High School is built, becoming the first chartered high school west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Sir William Ramsay and Lord Rayleigh discover the first noble gas, Argon.
Oil is discovered on the Osage Indian reservation, making the Osage the "richest group of people in the world"