Year by year · 19th century

1895

1895 in world history: 17 events, 28 births, 19 deaths, 5 states founded and 4 that came to an end. 887 recorded states existed that year.

Events

  1. 22 March

    Lumière brothers show their first film

    At a meeting in Paris, Louis and Auguste Lumière projected 'Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory' with their Cinématographe. Their first paying public screening followed in December.

    Paris

  2. 17 April

    Treaty of Shimonoseki ends the First Sino-Japanese War

    China recognised Korean independence, ceded Taiwan and the Pescadores to Japan and paid a large indemnity. Defeat exposed the weakness of the Qing and announced Japan as a regional power.

    Qing EmpireFirst Sino-Japanese WarTaiwan

  3. 8 November

    Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X-rays

    Experimenting with a cathode-ray tube in Würzburg, Wilhelm Röntgen noticed a glowing screen across the room and identified a new penetrating radiation. X-rays transformed medicine and won him the first Nobel Prize in Physics.

  4. 28 December

    The Lumière brothers hold the first paid public film screening

    At the Grand Café in Paris, Auguste and Louis Lumière projected ten short films to a paying audience. The screening is often taken as the birth of cinema.

    Paris

  5. Revolution

    Liberal Revolution of 1895

    The Liberal Revolution of 1895 in Ecuador began with a rising in Guayaquil on 5 June 1895 that proclaimed Eloy Alfaro supreme chief.

  6. Event

    Triple Intervention

    The Triple Intervention was the diplomatic intervention of Russia, Germany and France on 23 April 1895, six days after the Treaty of Shimonoseki ended the First Sino-Japanese War.

  7. Event

    Akassa raid

    The Akassa raid was an attack on 29 January 1895 by warriors of the Nembe kingdom of Brass, led by King Frederick William Koko, on the Royal Niger Company's depot at Akassa in the Niger delta.

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Wars and longer events

Born in 1895 28

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Died in 1895 19

States founded 5

States that came to an end 4

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