- January 30
- SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed. [1]
- With the US Treasury gold reserve at $22 million, about 11 days from bankruptcy, President Grover Cleveland makes a deal with financier J.P. Morgan, to sell a US bond issue at 3.75 percent interest to the Rothschilds and others in London, with Morgan being given a free hand to run the country for a month. [641.42]
- January 31
- José Martí and others leave New York City, New York for invasion of Spanish Cuba. [1]
- February 4
- First rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago, Illinois, USA. [1]
- February 9
- Volleyball is invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts, USA. [1]
- February 11
- -17 degrees F (-27.2 degrees C) in Braemar, Grampian (United Kingdom record). [1]
- February 13
- Moving picture projector is patented. [1]
- February 24
- Cuban war of independence begins. [1]
- February 26
- Michael Owens of Toledo Ohio patents a glass-blowing machine. [1]
- March 11
- Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed. [1]
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- March 22
- In Paris, France, Auguste and Louis Lumiere show their first movie (La Sortie des Ouvriers de l'Usine Lumière) to an invited audience. [1] [55.62]
- March 25
- Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia). [1]
- March 26
- King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day. [1]
- March 30
- British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge. [1]
- China and Japan sign armistice. [1044.1946]
- April 17
- Treaty of Shimonoseki is signed, ends first Sino-Japanese War (1894-95). [1]
- April 24
- Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11m boat. [1]
- May 8
- China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki. [1]
- May 25
- Republic of Formosa declares independence. [981.1018]
- May 27
- British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector. [1]
- June 20
- The Greater Republic of Central America is formed uniting Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. (The union is dissolved in 1898.) [1] [1043.1423]
- July 11
- The brothers Lumière show a film for scientists. [5]
- August 28
- In New Jersey, USA, the first motion picture film is shot with actors. Film title is The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots. This is also the first use of trick photography or special effect work in a film. [55.64]
- September 18
- D.D. Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes first chiropractor. [1]
- September 21
- First auto manufacturer opens-Duryea Motor Wagon Company. [1]
- September 30
- France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar. [1]
- November 8
- German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen becomes the first person to observe X-rays, electromagnetic energy waves. [1] [129] [391.46]
- November 11
- Bechuanaland becomes part of the Cape Colony. [1]
- November 27
- At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, France, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament. He directs that most of his estate be invested, with the interest used as prizes to those making the greatest contributions to mankind, in the subjects of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. [1] [5] [7]
- November 28
- America's first auto race starts; six cars, 55 miles, winner averages 7 MPH. [1] [5]
- December 8
- Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian General Baratieri out. [1]
- December 17
- George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Massachusetts, USA). [1]
- US President Grover Cleveland warns Great Britain of aggressions to Venezuela over boundary dispute with British Guiana. [919.131]
- December 28
- The world's first commercial movie screening to a paying audience takes place at the Grand Cafe in Paris. The film was made by Louis and Auguste Lumière, showing a series of short scenes from everyday French life. [1] [5] [129]
- December 29
- Dr L S Jameson begins failed raid on Johannesburg, South Africa. [1]
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