WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1895
Find out what all happened January to November 1895

While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray. (8. November 1895)

Eulmi incident- Queen Min of Joseon is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators inside and her corpse burnt by Korean people Gyeongbok Palace. (8. October 1895)

Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish-American War in 1898. (24. February 1895)

The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened. (20. June 1895)

In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day. (7. May 1895)

The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London. (5. October 1895)

William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball. (9. February 1895)

Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis' claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent." (28. June 1895)

Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government. (29. June 1895)

In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional. (8. April 1895)

El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America. (28. June 1895)

The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island. (4. October 1895)

German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon. (31. August 1895)

The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York, New York, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives. (27. June 1895)

John Brallier became the first openly professional American football player, when he was paid $10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12-0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association. (3. September 1895)

Madagascar becomes a French protectorate. (30. September 1895)

George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile. (5. November 1895)

Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted. (24. May 1895)

Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry. (6. April 1895)

Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology to scientists. (11. July 1895)