WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO NOVEMBER 1894
Find out what all happened March to November 1894

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

Labor Day becomes an official US holiday. (28. June 1894)

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

The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea. (1. August 1894)

Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War. (17. September 1894)

Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet. (25. August 1894)

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

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

The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying. (15. October 1894)

The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole. (4. 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 International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin. (23. June 1894)

Thomas Edison films American sharpshooter Annie Oakley, which is instrumental in her hiring by Buffalo Bill for his Wild West Show. (1. November 1894)

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

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

Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota. (1. September 1894)

Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois. (11. May 1894)

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

The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams. (21. May 1894)