Aldous Leonard Huxley ( 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963 ) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.

* 1894 – Gertrude Baines, American super-centenarian ( d. 2009 )

* 1894 – Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese politician and soldier, 13th President of Portugal ( d. 1964 )

* 1894 – Coxey's Army reaches Washington, D. C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.

Albert Lemaître classified 1st in his Peugeot 3hp in the 1894 Paris – Rouen ( motor race )

The Paris – Bordeaux – Paris race of June 1895 has sometimes been erroneously described as the " first motor race ", despite the 1894 event being decided by speed and finishing order of the eligible racers.

The tours generally had fewer Tests in the 1880s and 1890s than people have grown accustomed to in more recent years, the first five-Test series taking place only in 1894 – 95.

The 1894 – 95 series began in sensational fashion when England won the First Test at Sydney by just 10 runs having followed on.

It was the first time since 1894 – 95 that a team following on had won a Test match.

It has been compared with the great series of the distant past, such as 1894 – 95 and 1902.

* 1815 – Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer ( d. 1894 )

* 1991 – Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer ( b. 1894 )

* 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.

* 1894 – Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist ( d. 1927 )

* 1894 – Harry Heilmann, American baseball player ( d. 1951 )

* 1894 – George Meany, American labor leader ( d. 1980 )

* 1848 – Gustave Caillebotte, French painter ( d. 1894 )

* 1894 – Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.

Alexander Alexandrovich () ( 10 March 1845 – 1 November 1894 ), known historically as Alexander III or Alexander the Peacemaker reigned as Emperor of Russia from until his death on.

* Alexander III of Russia ( 1845 – 1894 ), emperor of Russia

* Alexander III of Russia ( 1845 – 1894 ), emperor of Russia

* 1827 – Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia ( d. 1894 )

* 1894 – Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor ( d. 1981 )

* 1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer ( d. 1894 )

He held his first personal exhibitions in Norway in 1894 and 1896, which received notable critical praise.

The area was transferred from British colonial authority to the Dominion of Canada in 1894 and named after Sir John Franklin in the following year ; however, the northernmost islands were claimed by Norway until the year 1930.

In Finland, Norway and Sweden feudalism was not established, and serfdom did not exist ; however, serfdom-like institutions did exist in both Denmark ( the stavnsbånd, from 1733 to 1788 ) and its vassal Iceland ( the more restrictive vistarband, from 1490 until 1894 ).

The party was founded in 1887 in Arendal and first ran in elections to the Parliament of Norway in 1894.

Cnut the Great's men on the London bridge, under attack by Olaf II of Norway from a Victorian children's book published in 1894

Two steam locomotives built in 1894, locomotives number 1 and 2 of NSB class XXI, are still preserved at the Setesdalsbanen museum railway, Norway.

* Hversu Noregr byggdist (' How Norway was inhabited '), Appendix A in The Orkneyingers Saga ( Icelandic Sagas, and other historical documents relating to the settlements and descents of the Northmen on the British Isles, Volume III ): Translator George W. Dasent ( 1894 ).

Selous journeyed in pursuit of big game to Europe ( Bavaria, Germany in 1870, Transylvania, then Hungary but now Romania in 1899, Mull Island, Scotland in 1894, Sardinia in 1902, Norway in 1907 ), Asia ( Turkey, Persia, Caucasus in 1894-95, 1897, 1907 ), North America ( Wyoming, Rocky Mountains in 1897 and 1898, Eastern Canada in 1900-1901, 1905, Alaska and Yukon in 1904, 1905 ) and the " dark continent " in a territory that extends from today ’ s South Africa and Namibia all the way up into central Sudan where he collected virtually every specimen of all medium and large African mammal species.

The punched cards and the tabulating machines were initially developed by the U. S. engineer Herman Hollerith and were used for first time in Norway by Statistics Norway in 1894.

In 1894, Norwegian farmers from Minnesota's Red River Valley, originally from Bardo, Norway, resettled on Amisk Creek south of Beaverhill Lake, Alberta, naming their new settlement Bardo, after their homeland.

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Arne Dagfin Dahl CBE ( 1894 – 1990 ) was a Norwegian military officer most renowned as the commander of the Alta Battalion during the fighting at Narvik in Northern Norway in 1940.

Beginning in 1894, Christian ministers under the direction of Charles Taze Russell were appointed to travel to and work with local Bible Students congregations for a few days at a time ; within a few years appointments were extended internationally, formally designated as " pilgrims ", and scheduled for twice-yearly, week-long visits at each local congregation.

Although the Central London Railway ( CLR ) was incorporated in 1891 for a line between Shepherd's Bush and Bank, with an extension to Liverpool Street authorised in 1892, the time for completion had to be extended twice, to 1894 and 1899 ; and it was not until 27 June 1900 that it was formally opened, a month before public traffic began on 30 July to Bank station.

The Borough of Carlstadt was incorporated on June 27, 1894, formally set off from Bergen Township, at the height of the Boroughitis phenomenon then sweeping through Bergen County.

After fire destroyed the courthouse building in 1892, the county relocated the court to the depot area, which formally became the county seat in 1894.

The ancient parish, and the civil parish until 1894, included Chalvey and Slough, originally hamlets, and was formally known as Upton cum Chalvey.

The Combined Fleet was formally created on 18 July 1894 by the merger of the Standing Fleet and the Western Fleet.

In November 1893, he was approached to see if he would accept a Baronetcy on the recommendation of the outgoing Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, the following February he legally changed his name to Burne-Jones He was formally created a baronet of Rottingdean, in the county of Sussex, and of the Grange, in the parish of Fulham, in the county of London in the baronetage of the United Kingdom on 3 May 1894, but remained unhappy about accepting the honour, which disgusted his socialist friend Morris and was scorned by his equally socialist wife Georgiana.

After enjoying almost complete autonomy for fourteen years, on 20 November 1894, their territory formally became incorporated in that of the republic of Nicaragua by Nicaraguan president José Santos Zelaya.

The county seat was formally moved to the town of West Appomattox in 1894 and the word " West " was dropped in time making the name of the town just Appomattox, Virginia.

In 1893 and 1894, the Children's Playground and Pools in the northeast quadrant of the park were transformed by McKim, Mead and White into the Rose Garden and the Vale of Cashmere, each a formally arranged space.

Their oldest course, Balcomie, was formally laid out by Tom Morris Sr. in 1894, but competitions had been played there since the 1850s.

To accuse Esterhazy formally of the treason imputed to Dreyfus and not simply of having written the bordereau ( perhaps as a hoax or a swindle ) was to subject the revision of the case of 1894 to the preliminary condemnation of Esterhazy.

In 1894 it formally vindicated its independence against the claims of the Russian synod ".

The Institute's site is formally a Christian Brothers home ( Carriglea Park Industrial School, 1894 – 1954 ).

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The islands were formally annexed in 1894 by the Provisional Government of Hawaii.

Northumbria University has its origins in three regional colleges: Rutherford College of Technology, which was established by Dr John Hunter Rutherford in 1880 and opened formally by HRH The Duke of York in 1894, the College of Art & Industrial Design and the Municipal College of Commerce.

The bridge was formally opened on 19 May 1894 by the then Duke of York ( who later became King George V ) having cost £ 61, 000 to construct.

It was the product of nearly 150 predecessor lines that were combined, reorganized and recombined beginning in the 1830s, formally becoming the Southern Railway in 1894.

In July 1894 the trust was formally inaugurated under the presidency of the Duke of Westminster.

" The state attorney, an old republican, was in favor of immediately annulling the sentence of 1894 and suspending the punishment of Dreyfus ; the councilor Bard, mindful of the resistance of the military as expressed in Zurlinden's letter, proposed that the Criminal Chamber simply declare the claim " formally admissible " and proceed to a further inquiry which would set people's minds at rest.