* 1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.

* 1895 – Dudley Nichols, American screenwriter ( d. 1960 )

* 1895 – Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat, and writer ( d. 1960 )

* 1803 – Edward Beecher, American theologian ( d. 1895 )

* 1895 – Andreas Alföldi, Hungarian historian and archaeologist ( d. 1981 )

* 1895 – Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban pianist and composer ( d. 1963 )

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.

* 1895 – István Barta, Hungarian water polo player ( d. 1948 )

* 1895 – Bert Lahr, American actor ( d. 1967 )

* 1828 – Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general ( d. 1895 )

* 1895 – Matt Henderson, New Zealand cricketer ( d. 1970 )

* 1817 – Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Austrian general ( d. 1895 )

* 1895 – Neva Morris, American super-centenarian ( d. 2010 )

* 1895 – Marguerite Nichols, American actress ( d. 1941 )

* 1973 – Richard Marshall, American general ( b. 1895 )

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

* 1895 – Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer ( d. 1948 )

* 1895 – Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer ( d. 1973 )

Bates originally wrote the words as a poem, Pikes Peak, first published in the Fourth of July edition of the church periodical The Congregationalist in 1895.

The first American automobile race is generally held to be the Thanksgiving Day Chicago Times-Herald race of November 28, 1895.

The first buses powered by internal combustion engines were used in 1895 and this is still the most common power source.

After the first engine powered bus of 1895.

Caving was pioneered by Édouard-Alfred Martel ( 1859 – 1938 ) who first achieved the descent and exploration of the Gouffre de Padirac, France as early as 1889 and the first complete descent of a 110 metre wet vertical shaft at Gaping Gill, in Yorkshire, England in 1895.

The oldest of these is the French Federation of Speleology ( originally Société de spéléologie ) founded by Édouard-Alfred Martel in 1895, which produced the first periodical journal in speleology, Spelunca.

In 1895 Beaux became the first woman to have a regular teaching position at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she instructed in portrait drawing and painting for the next twenty years.

The first large-scale census in the German Empire took place in 1895.

Joshua Slocum was one of the first people to carry out a long-distance sailing voyage for pleasure, circumnavigating the world between 1895 and 1898.

* 1895 – The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema.

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.

Extracts of the adrenal gland were first obtained by Polish physiologist Napoleon Cybulski in 1895.

In its first years Esperanto was used mainly in publications by Zamenhof and early adopters like Antoni Grabowski, in extensive correspondence ( mostly now lost ), in the magazine La Esperantisto, published from 1889 to 1895 and only occasionally in personal encounters.

Women have been playing association football since the first recorded women's game in 1895 in North London.

They gave their first show of projected pictures to an audience in Paris in December 1895.

The first public motion-picture film presentation in the world, though, belongs to Max and Emil Skladanowsky of Berlin, who projected with their apparatus " Bioscop ", a flickerfree duplex construction, November 1 through 31, 1895.

This film was among those exported to Europe with the first Kinetoscope machines in 1895, and was seen by Georges Méliès, who was putting on magic shows in his Theatre Robert-Houdin in Paris at the time.

Modern cinema is generally regarded as descending from the work of the French Lumière brothers in 1895, and their show first came to London in 1896.

They made the first British film Incident at Clovelly Cottage in February 1895, shortly before falling out over the camera's patent.

The first international took place in 1895 ( Ireland 3, Wales 0 ) and the International Rules Board was founded in 1900.

The first, the ' little tin idol ', was used from the inception of the Cup in 1871 – 72 until it was stolen from a Birmingham shoe shop window belonging to William Shillcock while held by Aston Villa on 11 September 1895, and was never seen again.

The Ethiopian emperor sent his first diplomatic mission to St. Petersburg in 1895.

In 1895 he constructed a tube with a ' catcher ', a closed aluminum cylinder with a small hole in the end facing the cathode, to collect the cathode rays.