In history, year 1895 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1895.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 12 january | The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, a conservation organization in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, was founded. |
| 03 april | The libel trial instigated by Irish author Oscar Wilde began, eventually resulting in Wilde's arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of gross indecency. |
| 07 may | Alexander Stepanovich Popov presented his radio receiver, refined as a lightning detector, to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society. |
| 23 may | Representatives of the Astor Library and Lenox Library agreedto merge and form the New York Public Library, now the second-largestpublic library in the United States. |
| 25 may | The Republic of Formosa was inaugurated in Taiwan, proclaimingindependence from Qing China. |
| 28 may | Madhavrao Khanderao Bagal was born. Madhavrao Khanderao Bagal also called Bhai Madhavrao Bagal was noted a writer, artist, journalist, social reformer, political activist, orator and freedom fighter from Kolhapur. |
| 11 june | The Paris–Bordeaux–Paris Trail was organized in France. It was the first automobile race in the world. The official winner was Paul Koechlin. Officially the race had been for four-seater cars. It was a 1,178 km long race starting from Paris to Bordeaux and return. |
| 20 june | The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutlandpeninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, wasofficially opened. |
| 27 june | The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives. A railway electrification system supplies electric power to railway trains and trams without an on-board prime mover or local fuel supply. Electrification has many advantages but requires significant capital expenditure. |
| 28 june | The United States Court of Private Land Claims ruled that thetitle claimed by James Reavis to 18,600 sq mi (48,000 km2) inpresent-day Arizona and New Mexico was 'wholly fictitious andfraudulent'. |
| 19 august | American outlaw and folk hero John Wesley Hardin was shot deadby an off-duty lawman in El Paso, Texas. |
| 18 september | Daniel David Palmer gave the first chiropractic adjustment todeaf janitor Harvey Lillard. |
| 04 october | The first U.S. Open golf tournament was held on a nine-holecourse at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island. |
| 22 october | A Granville–Paris Express train overran the buffer stop atParis' Gare Montparnasse station, careening across the concourse beforecrashing out of the station and plummeting onto the Place de Rennesbelow. |
| 22 october | At Gare Montparnasse station in Paris, an express trainderailed after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing the concoursebefore crashing through a wall and falling to the plaza below. |
| 08 november | German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produced and detectedelectromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known today as X-ray. |
| 27 november | Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel signed his lastwill and testament, setting aside the bulk of his estate to establishthe Nobel Prize after his death. |
| 27 May | Film inventor was obtained by British inventor Bert Akres. |
| 24 September | Annie Londonderry became the first woman in the world to cycle the world. |
| 28 September | Famous French scientist Louise Pasteur died. |
| 02 October | The first cartoon strip was published in a newspaper in North America. |
| 13 October | The first Test captain of India's cricket team, C.K. Naidu was born. |
| 08 November | German physicist K. Rongton discovered x-rays. |
| 19 November | Frederick E. Blessdale patented paper pencils. |
| 27 November | The Nobel Prize started according to the will of Alfred Nobel. |
| 28 December | For the first time in the history of cinema, a story was given a film form. The film was made by the inventors of France, the Lumir brothers, who are called the father of the film world. |
| 09 February | W. G. Morgan invented volleyball. |
| 11 March | The Spanish ship Reina Regenta sank in Gibraltar, killing 400 passengers. |
| 19 March | The Loomiers Brothers recorded the first footage from their new patent cinematograph. |
| 17 April | Shimonoseki reached an agreement between Japan and China. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 April | Alberta Hunter / Writer / United States of America |
| 03 March | Matthew Ridgway / General / United States of America |
| 04 December | Feng Youlan / Academic / China |
| 05 December | Elbert Frank Cox / Academic / United States of America |
| 07 March | Dorothy de Rothschild / Activist / United Kingdom |
| 07 February | Anita Stewart / Actress / United States of America |
| 08 October | Juan Perón / Politician / Argentina |
| 11 January | Laurens Hammond / Business Man / United States of America |
| 11 March | Shemp Howard / Actor / United States of America |
| 12 May | Jiddu Krishnamurti / Author / United States of America |
| 13 August | Bert Lahr / Actor / United States of America |
| 13 October | Mike Gazella / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 17 April | Robert Dean Frisbie / Author / United States of America |
| 17 March | Lloyd Rees / Painter / Australia |
| 18 September | Walter Koch / Author / Germany |
| 20 October | Rex Ingram / Actor / United States of America |
| 22 July | León de Greiff / Journalist / Colombia |
| 24 December | E. Roland Harriman / Financier / United States of America |
| 26 March | Vilho Tuulos / Jumper / Finland |
| 28 March | Christian Herter / Politician / United States of America |