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 )

Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.

* Sir William Vernon Harcourt 1894 – 1898

* 1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.

Two former prime ministers — Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott and Sir Mackenzie Bowell — served in the 1890s while members of the Senate ; both, in their roles as Government Leader in the Senate, succeeded prime ministers who died in office ( John A. Macdonald in 1891 and John Sparrow David Thompson in 1894 ), a convention that has since evolved toward the appointment of an interim leader in such a scenario.

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An Aubrey Beardsley illustration for Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur, " How Sir Bedivere Cast the Sword Excalibur into the Water " ( 1894 )

The antiquary John Leland ( 1506 – 1552 ) as well as John Bale believed him to be Welsh, but most modern scholars, beginning with G. L. Kittredge in 1894, assume that he was Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire, who was a knight, land-owner and Member of Parliament .< ref > Riddy, Felicity </ Ref >.

In July 1894 he mooted his idea for The Importance of Being Earnest to Sir George Alexander, the actor-manager of St. James's Theatre.

* 1894: Sir Charles Parsons patented the idea of propelling a ship with a steam turbine, and built a demonstration vessel, the Turbinia, easily the fastest vessel afloat at the time.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a short story about his celebrated sleuth Sherlock Holmes which features a fingerprint: The Norwood Builder is a 1903 Sherlock Holmes short story set in 1894 and involves the discovery of a bloody fingerprint which helps Holmes to expose the real criminal and free his client.

In 1894, he married Margot Tennant, a daughter of Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Bt.

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.

Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB, PC (; 5 March 1817 – 5 July 1894 ) was a British traveller, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, author, politician and diplomat, best known as the excavator of Nimrud.

See also F Hardy, Memoirs of Lord Charlemont ( London, 1812 ); Warden Flood, Memoirs of Henry Flood ( London, 1838 ); Francis Plowden, Historical Review of the State of Ireland ( London, 1803 ); Alfred Webb, Compendium of Irish Biography ( Dublin, 1878 ); Sir Jonah Barrington, Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation ( London, 1833 ); WJ O ' Neill Daunt, Ireland and her Agitators ; Lord Mountmorres, History of the Irish Parliament ( 2 vole., London, 1792 ); Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George III ( 4 vols., London, 1845 and 1894 ); Lord Stanhope, Life of William Pitt ( 4 vols., London, 1861 ); Thomas Davis, Life of JP Curran ( Dublin, 1846 ) this contains a memoir of Grattan by DO Madden, and Grattan's reply to Lord Clare on the question of the Union ; Charles Phillips, Recollections of Curran and some of his Contemporaries ( London, 1822 ); JA Froude, The English in Ireland ( London, 1881 ); JG McCarthy, Henry Grattan: an Historical Study ( London, 1886 ); Lord Mahon's History of England, vol.

Sir Arthur William Fadden, GCMG ( 13 April 1894 – 21 April 1973 ) was an Australian politician and, briefly, the 13th Prime Minister of Australia.

In 1894, British MP Sir Charles Dilke observed in the House of Commons: " The only person who has up to the present time benefited from our enterprise in the heart of Africa has been Mr. Hiram Maxim "

** Isabella Graham Cockburn ( c. 1848-Kensington, London, 5 January 1926 ), married on 31 January 1894 as his third wife to Sir James Shaw Hay ( 25 October 1839-20 June 1924 ), without issue

Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, 1st Baronet ( 3 March 1829 – 11 March 1894 ) was an English lawyer, judge and writer.

* Sir John Sparrow David Thompson ( 1845 – 1894 ), Prime Minister of Canada

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When Sir William Gregory died in March 1892, Lady Gregory went into mourning and returned to Coole Park where she edited her husband's autobiography, which she published in 1894.