1895
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
Years: 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 - 1895 - 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
Events
- January 5 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island
- February 6 - Babe Ruth, Baseball Hall of Famer (+ 1948)
- February 9 - W.G. Morgan invents volleyball.
- February 14 - First showing of Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest (St. James' Theatre in London).
- April 14 - a major earthquake severely damages Ljubljana, Slovenia
- September or October - C. Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat demonstrate their Phantoscope, a motion picture projector, in Atlanta, Georgia.
- November 8 - Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
- December 28 - The Lumiere brothers have their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposes a space elevator
- Last major earthquake in the New Madrid Fault Zone
- Boulevard des Capucines -- this date is commonly considered the debut of the motion picture.
Births
- January 1 - J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director
- January 20 - George Burns, actor, comedian († 1996)
- January 24 - Eugen Roth, lyricist and narrator (+ 1976)
- February 2 - George Halas, American football player, coach, co-founder of the [[National Football League (+ 1983)
- February 8 - King Vidor, director (+ 1982)
- February 11 - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer.
- April 9 - Mance Lipscomb, popular singer.
- May 6 - Rodolfo Valentino, Italian actor
- July 12 - Buckminster Fuller, American architect.
- September 11 - Vinoba Bhave
- October 4 - Buster Keaton, American actor and film director
- November 16 - Paul Hindemith, German composer
- Wilhelm Gustloff, Swiss Nazi party leader.
Deaths
- February 20 - Frederick Douglass, ex-slave and author.
- March 2 - Berthe Morisot, Impressionist Painter
- June 29 - Sir Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist
- November 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, author, playwright