WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO NOVEMBER 1895
Find out what all happened February to November 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)

The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan. (17. April 1895)

Booker T. Washington delivers the "Atlanta Compromise" address. (18. September 1895)

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

Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment. (18. September 1895)

The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season. (7. September 1895)

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

American Frontier murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas. (19. August 1895)

The first gasoline-powered race in the United States; first prize is $2,000. (2. November 1895)

In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100 ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33 ft) to the road below. (22. October 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)

The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours. (28. November 1895)

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

The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade. (21. October 1895)

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

Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph. (19. March 1895)

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

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