WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1894
Find out what all happened January to December 1894

The Manchester Ship Canal, England, is officially opened to traffic. (1. January 1894)

The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but The 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3 hp petrol engined Peugeot. (22. July 1894)

Norway formally adopts the Krag-Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years. (21. April 1894)

The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts. (22. March 1894)

Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio. (24. June 1894)

The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship. (25. July 1894)

First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang. (15. September 1894)

The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin. (23. June 1894)

The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films. (14. April 1894)

Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, France, killing one and wounding 20. (12. February 1894)

William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. (7. January 1894)

Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike. (6. June 1894)

Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies. (1. November 1894)

Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C. (25. March 1894)

Port Arthur, Manchuria, falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War, after which Japanese troops are accused of the massacre of the remaining inhabitants of the city. (Reports conflict on this subject.) (21. November 1894)

Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph Biedenharn. (12. March 1894)

The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole. (4. July 1894)

Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially. (30. October 1894)

Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C. (1. May 1894)

The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason. (22. December 1894)