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 )

In 1894, the first train on the Achill railway carried the bodies of victims of the Clew Bay Drowning.

On July 23, 1894, the Parisian magazine Le Petit Journal organized what is considered to be the world's first motoring competition from Paris to Rouen.

* 2007 – Boris Yeltsin's funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.

It was first performed in France in 1894.

He started numbering his works anew with ‘ opus 1 ’ in 1894 with his first large scale work, a piano sonata.

When representatives of Fulham first came across the land, in 1894, it was so overgrown that it took two years to be made suitable for football to be played on it.

Martin Hewitt, created by British author Arthur Morrison in 1894, is perhaps the first example of the modern style of fictional private detective.

Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose was the first to use a crystal for detecting radio waves in 1894.

In 1894 and 1895 he filed patents and addenda in various countries for his Diesel engine ; the first patents were issued in Spain ( No. 16, 654 ), France ( No. 243, 531 ) and Belgium ( No. 113, 139 ) in December 1894, and in Germany ( No. 86, 633 ) in 1895 and the United States ( No. 608, 845 ) in 1898.

Growing from earlier defensive developments, the " torpedo boat destroyer "( TBD ) first appeared as a distinct class of warship when and were commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1894.

In 1894 Parker ’ s Talks on Pedagogics, which drew heavily on the thinking of Fröbel, Pestalozzi and Herbart, became one of the first American writings on education to gain international fame.

In 1891 Essendon won their first VFA premiership, which they repeated in 1892, 1893 and 1894.

It was not a commercial success in this form, and left the way free for Charles Francis Jenkins and his projector, the Phantoscope, with the first showing before an audience in June 1894.

The first commercial exhibition of film took place on April 14, 1894 at Edison's Kinetoscope peep-show parlor.

The kinetoscope, first shown commercially by Thomas Edison in the United States in 1894, was first shown in Japan in November 1896.

The first national association was the Irish Ladies Hockey Union in 1894, and though rebuffed by the Hockey Association, women's field hockey grew rapidly around the world.

Jomo Kenyatta ( c. 1894 – 1978 ), who became Kenya's first prime minister in 1963, wrote in 1930:

He returned to Paris after the publication of his first book during 1894.

The first Scottish Liberal to become prime minister was the Earl of Rosebery, from 1894 – 95, like Aberdeen before him a product of the English education system.