1894

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1860s  1870s  1880s  – 1890s –  1900s  1910s  1920s
Years:	1891 1892 1893 – 1894 – 1895 1896 1897

Events

• Outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War
• June 30 – Tower Bridge in London opened.

Births

• February 10 - Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister
• April 17 – Nikita Krushchev, Soviet leader
• March 20 – Ky Ebright, American Olympic rowing coach (d. 1979)
• July 26 – Aldous Huxley, English writer
• November 27 - Katherine Milhous, American illustrator and writer (d. 1977)

Deaths

• 1 January – Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
• 1 November - Alexander III of Russia Czar of Russia father of Czar Nicholas II