In Korea, peasant unrest erupts in the
Donghak Peasant Revolution, a massive revolt of followers of the
Donghak movement.[1] Both China and Japan send military forces, claiming to come to the ruling
Joseon dynasty government's aid.
March 1 – The
Local Government Act (coming into effect December 1894–January 1895) reforms
local government in Britain, creating a system of
urban and
rural districts with elected councils, with elected civil
parish councils in rural areas, and gives women, irrespective of marital status, the right to vote and stand in local (but not national) elections.[2]
March 21 – A
syzygy of planets occurs, as Mercury transits the Sun as seen from Venus, and Mercury and Venus both transit the Sun as seen from Saturn, but no two of the transits are simultaneous.
April 27 –
Canada's largest known landslide occurs in
Saint-Alban, Quebec, displacing 185 million cubic metres (6.5×10^9 cu ft) of rock and dirt, and leaving a 40-metre (130 ft) scar that covers 4.6 million square metres (50×10^6 sq ft).[3]
August 31 – New Zealand enacts the world's first
minimum wage law, to take effect on January 1, in the passage of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act of 1894.[6]
September 4 – In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against
sweatshop working conditions.
September 26 – The
SS Ohio (1875) and the schooner barge Ironton collide and sink in
Lake Huron. While the crew of the Ohio is rescued, five of the other craft's seven-member crew, including the captain, are lost.
The first issue of
Billboard magazine is published in Cincinnati, Ohio by
William Donaldson and James Hennegan. Initially, it covers the advertising and bill posting industry, and is at the time known as Billboard Advertising.
December 18 – Women in
South Australia become the first in Australia to
gain the right to vote and the first in the world with the right to be elected to Parliament, taking effect from
1895, after decades of activism.
Oil is discovered on the Osage Indian reservation, making the
Osage the "richest group of people in the world".
Edward B. Marks and Joe Stern publish the waltz The Little Lost Child in the United States, promoting the playing of the waltz with slides projected by a magic lantern, the earliest version of
music video known as the
illustrated song.
Spillers Records is founded in Cardiff (Wales), the world's oldest record shop still in operation.
The Liga Femeilor Române, the first women's organisation in Romania, is founded.
In Korea, peasant unrest erupts in the
Donghak Peasant Revolution, a massive revolt of followers of the
Donghak movement.[1] Both China and Japan send military forces, claiming to come to the ruling
Joseon dynasty government's aid.
March 1 – The
Local Government Act (coming into effect December 1894–January 1895) reforms
local government in Britain, creating a system of
urban and
rural districts with elected councils, with elected civil
parish councils in rural areas, and gives women, irrespective of marital status, the right to vote and stand in local (but not national) elections.[2]
March 21 – A
syzygy of planets occurs, as Mercury transits the Sun as seen from Venus, and Mercury and Venus both transit the Sun as seen from Saturn, but no two of the transits are simultaneous.
April 27 –
Canada's largest known landslide occurs in
Saint-Alban, Quebec, displacing 185 million cubic metres (6.5×10^9 cu ft) of rock and dirt, and leaving a 40-metre (130 ft) scar that covers 4.6 million square metres (50×10^6 sq ft).[3]
August 31 – New Zealand enacts the world's first
minimum wage law, to take effect on January 1, in the passage of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act of 1894.[6]
September 4 – In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against
sweatshop working conditions.
September 26 – The
SS Ohio (1875) and the schooner barge Ironton collide and sink in
Lake Huron. While the crew of the Ohio is rescued, five of the other craft's seven-member crew, including the captain, are lost.
The first issue of
Billboard magazine is published in Cincinnati, Ohio by
William Donaldson and James Hennegan. Initially, it covers the advertising and bill posting industry, and is at the time known as Billboard Advertising.
December 18 – Women in
South Australia become the first in Australia to
gain the right to vote and the first in the world with the right to be elected to Parliament, taking effect from
1895, after decades of activism.
Oil is discovered on the Osage Indian reservation, making the
Osage the "richest group of people in the world".
Edward B. Marks and Joe Stern publish the waltz The Little Lost Child in the United States, promoting the playing of the waltz with slides projected by a magic lantern, the earliest version of
music video known as the
illustrated song.
Spillers Records is founded in Cardiff (Wales), the world's oldest record shop still in operation.
The Liga Femeilor Române, the first women's organisation in Romania, is founded.