1893
1894
history - a military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire - First Sino-Japanese War - Dahomey (now. benin) becomes a French colony - Dreyfus affair - New Zealand enacted the world's first minimum wage law
culture - The Tower Bridge in London opens for traffic - Reichstag, Berlin, designed by Paul Wallot, is completed - Colegio de Santa Maria de Jesús, Barcelona designed by Antoni Gaudí is completed - Sir William Ramsay and Lord Rayleigh discover the first noble gas, Argon - For the first time, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles - Karl Marx: Das Kapital - Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest - Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book - Robert Louis Stevenson (†)
music - Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - Jules Massenet: Thaïs - Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 1 - Emmanuel Chabrier (†)
- ? - ? - Kentucky Jubilee Singers
- 1894.00.00 -- US: Washington DC - recordings for Columbia - Standard Quartette
- 1894.02.00? - US: Washington DC - recordings for Columbia - Jessie Oliver, Standard Quartette
- 1894.09.13 -- ? - recordings for Berliner - George Gaskin
- 1894.12.12 -- ? - recordings for Berliner - A.C. Weaver