WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO APRIL 1894
Find out what all happened January to April 1894

New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts. (9. January 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)

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

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

Coxey's Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893. (30. April 1894)

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

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

The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado. (7. February 1894)

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

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