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March 15. Bridget Cleary is killed and her body burned in County Tipperary, Ireland, by her husband, Michael; he is subsequently convicted and imprisoned for manslaughter, his defence being a belief that he had killed a changeling left in his wife's place after she had been abducted by fairies. [5] Heian Shrine is completed in Kyoto, Japan. [6]
French anarchist Martial Bourdin dies of an accidental detonation of his own bomb, next to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in London, England.
1895 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1895th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 895th year of the 2nd millennium, the 95th year of the 19th century, and the 6th year of the 1890s decade.
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January–March
1. January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end as Jameson surrenders to the Boers. 2. January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. 3. January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery, last November, of a type of electromagnetic radiation, later known as X-rays. 4. January 6 – Cecil Rhodes is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope for his involvement in the Jameson Raid. 5. January 7 – American culinary expert Fannie Farmerpublishes her first...
April–June
1. April – Svante Arrhenius first publishes the "greenhouse law", becoming the first person to predict that emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other combustion processes are large enough to cause global warming through the greenhouse effect. 2. April 4 – The first known women's basketball game between two colleges is played between Stanford and California. 1. April 6 – The opening ceremonies of the 1896 Summer Olympics, the first modern Olympic Games, are held in...
July–September
1. July 9 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech at the Democratic National Convention, which nominates him for president of the United States. 2. July 11 – Wilfrid Laurier becomes Canada's seventh prime minister, and the first French-speaker to hold that office. 3. July 21 – In Washington, D.C., in response to a "call to confer" issued by Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin to all women of color, the National Association of Colored Women's Clubsis organized. 4. July 26 – The Inte...
January–February
1. January 2 – Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (d. 1954) 2. January 4 2.1. Everett Dirksen, American politician (d. 1969) 2.2. André Masson, French artist (d. 1987) 3. January 8 3.1. Arthur Ford, American psychic spiritual medium, clairaudient (d. 1971) 3.2. Clifton Sprague, American admiral (d. 1955) 4. January 12 – Uberto De Morpurgo, Italian tennis player (d. 1961) 5. January 14 – John Dos Passos, American author (d. 1970) 6. January 20 – George Burns, American actor, comedian (d. 1996) 7....
March–April
1. March 1 – Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist and composer (d. 1960) 2. March 13 – Field Eugene Kindley, American World War I fighter pilot (d. 1920) 3. March 20 – Wop May, Canadian World War I pilot (d. 1952) 4. March 22 – Joseph Schildkraut, Austrian-American actor (d. 1964) 5. March 29 – Wilhelm Ackermann, German mathematician (d. 1962) 6. April 13 – Ira C. Eaker, World War II United States Army Air Forces general (d. 1987) 7. April 15 7.1. Gerhard Fieseler, German World War I...
May–June
1. May 1 1.1. Mark W. Clark, American general (d. 1984) 1.2. J. Lawton Collins, American general (d. 1987) 2. May 2 – Helen of Greece and Denmark, Queen Mother of Romania (d. 1982) 3. May 3 – Karl Allmenröder, German World War I fighter pilot (d. 1917) 4. May 5 – Kaju Sugiura, Japanese admiral (d. 1945) 5. May 19 – Jorge Alessandri, 27th President of Chile (d. 1986) 6. May 23 – Andor Jaross, ethnic Hungarian politician (d. 1946) 7. May 30 – Howard Hawks, American director (d. 1977) 8. May 31...
January–June
1. January 4 – Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (b. 1821) 2. January 5 – Charlie Bassett, American sheriff (b. 1847) 3. January 8 – Paul Verlaine, French lyric poet (b. 1844) 4. January 15 – Mathew Brady, American photographer (b. 1822) 5. January 18 – Charles Floquet, Prime Minister of France (b. 1828) 6. January 20 – Prince Henry of Battenberg, Lombardy-born British royal, married to Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (b. 1858) 7. January 26 – James Edwin Campbell, Am...
July–December
1. July 1 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (b. 1811) 2. July 4 – Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino writer, journalist (b. 1850) 3. July 11 – Ernst Curtius, German historian (b. 1814) 4. July 13 – August Kekulé, German chemist (b. 1829) 5. July 16 – Edmond de Goncourt, French writer, co-founder of the Académie Goncourt (b. 1822) 6. July 19 – Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859) 7. August 10 – Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (b. 1848) 8. August 12 – Sir Harry Burne...
Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-1895) Feb 3 American abolitionist and writer (American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses), dies at 91. Feb 4 Faustina Hasse Hodges, English-American composer, dies at 71. Feb 18 Archduke Albrecht of Austria, Duke of Teschen, Austrian general (Battle at Custozza), dies at 77.
Second Boer War. Jameson Raid. The plan was to make a three-day dash to Johannesburg and trigger an uprising by the primarily British expatriate workers (uitlanders) organized by the Reform Committee before the Boer commandos could mobilize.
Death. On February 20, 1895, Douglass attended a meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington, D.C. During that meeting, he was brought to the platform and received a standing ovation. Shortly after he returned home, Douglass died of a massive heart attack.
