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 - March
January 8: Fire damages
Columbian Exposition.
- January 7 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- January 8 - A fire at the 1893-1894 World\'s Columbian Exposition in Chicago causes a good deal of damage.
- January 9 - New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard (Lexington, Massachusetts).
- 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 simultaneously transited the Sun as seen from Saturn.
- End of the rule of chief Touch the Clouds
- March 25 - Coxey\'s Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.
March 12: Coca-Cola in bottles (copies).
April - June
May 14: Blackpool Tower.
July - September
October - December
Nov. 1:
Nicholas II becomes
Tsar of Russia
Undated
Births
January - June
- January 1 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1974)
- January 20 - Walter Piston, American composer (d. 1976)
- January 30 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
- January 31 - Isham Jones, American jazz musician (d. 1956)
- February 3 - Norman Rockwell, American artist and illustrator (d. 1978)
- February 8 - Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher (d. 1971)
- February 10 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986)
- February 11 - Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (d. 1974)
- February 14 - Jack Benny, American actor and comedian (d. 1974)
- February 25 - Meher Baba, Avatar of the Age, was born in India (d. 1969)
- February 28 - Ben Hecht, American playwright, and film writer (d. 1964)
- March 17 - Paul Green, novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (d. 1981)
- March 19 - Moms Mabley, American comedienne (d. 1975)
- March 30 - Nikolai P. Barabashov, Russian astronomer (d.1971)
- April 10 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist, Gandhian, and educationalist (d. 1983)
- April 10 - Ben Nicholson English abstract artist (d. 1982)
- April 13 - Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973)
- April 15 - Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937)
- April 17 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician (d. 1971)
- April 26 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (d. 1987)
- April 27 - Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian/American musicologist (d. 1995)
- May 11 - Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)
- May 16 - Walter Yust, American encyclopædia editor (d. 1960)
- May 20 - Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Maha Swamigal, Shankaracharya of Kanchi mutt from 1907 to 1994, sage, and religious scholar (d.1994)
- May 27
- May 31 - Fred Allen, American comedian (d. 1956)
- June 4 - Gabriel Pascal, Hungarian Film Producer (d. 1954)
- June 7 - Roy Thomson, Canadian publisher (d. 1976)
- June 9 - Nedo Nadi, Italian fencer (d. 1940)
- June 14 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1924)
- June 23 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (d. 1972)
July - December
- July 9 - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
- July 18 - Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (d. 1940)
- July 19 - Khawaja Nazimuddin, second Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)
- July 26 - Aldous Huxley, English author (d. 1963)
- August 3 - Harry Heilmann, baseball player (d. 1951)
- August 21 - Katie Harris, folklorist (d. 2001)
- August 28 - Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (d. 1981)
- August 28 - Elisha Scott, footballer (d. 1959)
- September 2 - Joseph Roth, Austrian writer (d. 1939)
- September 7 - George Waggner, American film director, producer, and actor (d. 1984)
- September 13 - J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (d. 1984)
- September 13 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (d. 1953)
- September 15 - Jean Renoir, French film director (d. 1979)
- September 24 - Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (d. 1968)
- October 5 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948)
- October 7 - Del Lord, Hollywood director (d. 1970)
- October 14 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (d. 1962)
- October 15 - Moshe Sharett, second Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1965)
- October 18 - H. L. Davis, American author (d. 1960)
- October 25 - Claude Cahun, French photographer and writer (d. 1954)
- October 25 - Aşık Veysel Şatıroğlu, Turkish poet, songwriter and saz player (d. 1973)
- November 2 - Alexander Lippisch, German aerodynamics engineer (d. 1976)
- November 4 - Chafik Charobim, Egyptian impressionist painter (d. 1975)
- November 5 - Harold Innis, Canadian communications scholar. (d. 1952)
- November 24 - Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (d. 1978)
- November 26 - Norbert Wiener, American mathematician (d. 1964)
- November 29 - Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (d. 1970)
- December 5 - Philip K. Wrigley, American chewing gum manufacturer and executive in Major League Baseball (d.1977)
- December 8 - James Thurber, American writer (d. 1961)
- December 17 - Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (d. 1979)
- December 20 - Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1978)
- December 22 - Edwin Linkomies, Finnish Prime Minister (d. 1963)
- December 26 - Jean Toomer, Poet (d. 1967)
- December 31 - Pola Negri, Polish actress (d. 1987)
- See also Category: 1894 births.
Deaths
January - June
- January 1 - Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (b. 1857)
- January 13 - Nadezhda von Meck, patron of Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
- February 4 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone (b. 1814)
- February 6 -
- February 8 - Robert Michael Ballantyne, Scottish novelist (b. 1825)
- March 3 - Ned Williamson, American baseball player (b. 1857)
- March 20 - Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian politician (b. 1802)
- June 3 - Karl Eduard Zachariae, German jurist and expert on Byzantine law (b. 1812)
- June 7 - Hassan I of Morocco (b. 1836)
- June 23 - Marietta Alboni, opera singer (b. 1826)
- June 25 - Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (b. 1837) (assassinated)
July - December
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