Portions of the township were taken to form Union Township ( March 10, 1846, now Barnegat Township ), Eagleswood Township ( March 17, 1874 ), Long Beach City borough ( September 19, 1894, now Surf City ) and Long Beach Township ( March 23, 1899 ).

What is now Surf City was originally formed as Long Beach City borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on September 19, 1894, from portions of Stafford Township, based on the results of a referendum held the previous day.

* 1894 – The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.

The Western League began play in April 1894 with teams in Detroit ( the only league team that has not moved since ), Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Sioux City and Toledo.

On February 5, 1894, his 40th birthday, he presented his " Marvellous Cinematograph " to a group of around twenty show business men in New York City.

The team was founded in Kansas City in 1894 as the Kansas City Blues of the Western League.

The Rob Roy is a cocktail created in 1894 by a bartender at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City.

The Bayreuth authorities allowed unstaged performances to take place in various countries after Wagner's death ( e. g. London in 1884, New York City in 1886, and Amsterdam in 1894 ) but they maintained an embargo on stage performances outside Bayreuth.

Norman Rockwell was born on February 3, 1894, in New York City to Jarvis Waring Rockwell and Anne Mary " Nancy " ( born Hill ) Rockwell.

The building of rail links, such as the Brighton Beach Line in 1878 heralded explosive growth, and, in the space of a decade, the City of Brooklyn annexed the towns of New Lots in 1886 ; Flatbush, Gravesend, and New Utrecht in 1894 ; and Flatlands in 1896.

In 1894, Brooklyn residents voted by a slight majority to join with Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, and Richmond ( later Staten Island ) to become the five boroughs of the modern New York City.

An Amorite chieftain named Sumuabum founded Babylon as an independent City State in 1894 BC.

The earliest documentation of its existence is an advertisement for " Gem Paper Clips " published by Cushman & Denison, 172 9th Avenue, New York City, in The Book-Keeper, August 1894, p. 6.

Salt Lake City and County Building | City and County Building, seat of city government since 1894.

He later moved to New York City, where he completed the novel in April 1894.

* Chicago White Sox enfranchised 1894 as the Sioux City Cornhuskers, moved to St. Paul ( 1895 ) and to Chicago ( 1900 )

* Minnesota Twins enfranchised 1894 as the Kansas City Blues, moved to Washington ( 1901 ), and to Minneapolis-St. Paul ( 1961 )

In 1894, Oregon City author Eva Emery Dye persuaded Judge Cross that bringing the Chautauqua movement to the area would be of great benefit to the community and surrounding area.

In 1894, the county seat of Junction City became known simply as Junction.

* City University, London at Northampton Square, formerly the Northampton Institute, founded in 1894 ; and

Fairhope was founded in November, 1894 on the site of former Alabama City as a single tax colony by the " Fairhope Industrial Association ": a group of 28 followers of economist Henry George who had incorporated earlier that year in Des Moines, Iowa.

Kokomo is officially known as the " City of Firsts " for, among other achievements, being a pioneer of United States automobile manufacturing, with Elwood Haynes test-driving his early internal combustion engine auto there on July 4, 1894.

Swea City was petitioned for incorporation on December 11, 1894 with a population of 161.

Between 1881 and 1894, the Anchor Line, a prominent steamboat company on the Mississippi River from 1859 to 1898, operated a steamboat called the City of Vicksburg.

This became Abercarn urban district in 1894, governed by an urban district council of twelve members.

In 1894 Abersychan became an urban district and civil parish.

Two years later, the French established an outpost at Bangui, and in 1894, Oubangui-Chari became a French territory.

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.

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

The Genealogical Society of Utah, founded in 1894, later became the Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS ).

Socialist leader Otto Grotewohl ( 1894 – 1964 ) became prime minister until his death.

In an effort to isolate Germany, France went to great pains to woo Russia and the United Kingdom to its side, first by means of the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1894, then the 1904 Entente Cordiale with the U. K, and finally the Anglo-Russian Entente in 1907 which became the Triple Entente and eventually led Russia and the UK to enter World War I as Allies.

Severn was one of seven children ; two of his brothers, Thomas ( 1801 – 1881 ) and Charles ( 1806 – 1894 ), became professional musicians, and Severn himself was an adroit pianist.

In the United States, the New York parade became an annual event that year, and in 1894 was adopted by American president Grover Cleveland to compete with International Workers ' Day ( May Day ).

Balzer produced a 3-cylinder, rotary engined car in 1894, then later became involved in Langley's Aerodrome attempts, which bankrupted him while he tried to make much larger versions of his engines.

In late 1894 or early 1895, Dickson became an ad hoc advisor to the motion picture operation of the Latham brothers, Otway and Grey, and their father, Woodville, who ran one of the leading Kinetoscope exhibition companies.

The collective later became known as the " Tragic Generation " and published two anthologies, first in 1892 and again in 1894.

On September 20, 1894, the NAO became a " branch " of USNO, however it remained autonomous for several years after this.

He discovered the Independence Lode near Victor, Colorado on July 4, 1891, one of the richest gold mines ever located on earth, and became the Cripple Creek district's first millionaire in 1894.

In 1894, her brother-in-law Alexander III of Russia died and her nephew Nicholas II of Russia became Tsar.

In 1894 Debs became involved in the Pullman Strike, which grew out of a compensation dispute started by the workers who constructed the train cars made by the Pullman Palace Car Company.

The technique of pi – theorem ’ s usage (`` the method of dimensions ’’) became widely known due to the works of Rayleigh ( the first application of the pi – theorem in the general case to the dependence of pressure drop in a pipe upon governing parameters probably dates back to 1892, a heuristic proof with the use of series expansion, to 1894 ).

She became his mistress ; they married in 1894 ; one account suggested that Yohe wore the Hope diamond at one point.

In 1894, he became chief engineer in the Department of Bridges and Highways.

It was written in 1894 by the priest and poet Matija Zemljič and quickly became very popular among Slovenian mountaineers.

Llandaff itself became a civil parish and from 1894 to 1922 was part of the Llandaff and Dinas Powis Rural District.

In 1894, he became assistant editor of the periodical Woman.

* 1894 – Hildebrand & Wolfmüller became the first motorcycle available to the public for purchase.

The Municipal Borough of Bacup became a local government district of the administrative county of Lancashire under the Local Government Act 1894, meaning it shared power with the strategic Lancashire County Council.