1895

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s – 1890s – 1900s 1910s 1920s
Years:	1892 1893 1894 – 1895 – 1896 1897 1898

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1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1895th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 895th year of the 2nd millennium, the 95th year of the 19th century, and the 6th year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1895, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January 5: Dreyfus affair
March 18: The first internal combustion bus, (Siegen to Netphen in Germany)
April 17: Shimonoseki treaty: Qing dynasty renounces claim on Korea
July 31: Sabino Arana founds the Basque Nationalist Party
October: The Cosmopolitan
Otto Lilienthal gliding experiment
J. Edgar Hoover, head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1961.
Prof. Leo Aryeh Mayer (12 January 1895 – 6 April 1959), Orientalist from Israel
Babe Ruth, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, in baseball uniform, holding baseball bat. Facsimile signature on image: "Yours truly "Babe" Ruth."
Louise Lovely

– José Paulino Gomes, Brazilian supercentenarian (d. 2023)

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