Even the Reichstag itself, the German Parliament, occupied the former home of the family of composer Felix Mendelssohn ( 1809 – 47 ) in Leipziger Straße before moving in 1894 to the vast new edifice near the Brandenburg Gate, erected by Paul Wallot ( 1841 – 1912 ).

The Original Mother Church edifice, designed by Franklin I. Welch, was built in 1894, eight years after the first Christian Science Church in the world was built in Oconto, Wisconsin.

Alfonso XIII appears as " King Buby " in Luis Coloma's story of Ratoncito Pérez ( 1894 ), which was written for the King when he was 8 years old.

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

When he was drafted into the army in 1894, his gift for turning notions upside down defeated attempts to instill military discipline.

It is a unique narrative that effectively links the domination of the soul to contemporaneous advances in the field of Egyptology such as the 1894 excavation of the Narmer Palette, an ancient artifact used for situating the rebus within hermeneutics.

* 1894 – Norway formally adopts the Krag-Jørgensen rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.

* 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.

In 1894, two bacteriologists, Alexandre Yersin of France and Kitasato Shibasaburō of Japan, independently isolated the bacterium in Hong Kong responsible for the Third Pandemic.

The main legislative framework for the Building Society was the Building Society Act of 1874, with subsequent amending legislation in 1894, 1939 ( see Coney Hall ), and 1960.

The Varsity Show is an annual musical written by and for students and was established in 1894, making it one of Columbia's oldest traditions.

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.

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.

The current Detroit club was a charter member when the Western League reorganized for the 1894 season.

Having played at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground from 1882 to 1921, and having won four VFA premierships ( 1891 – 1894 ) and four VFL premierships ( 1897, 1901, 1911, ( 1912 ) whilst there, Essendon were looking for a new home, and were offered grounds at the current Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, at Victoria Park, at Arden St, North Melbourne, and the Essendon Cricket Ground.

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.

Early finals venues include Kennington Oval, in 1872 and 1874 – 92, the Racecourse Ground, Derby in 1886, Fallowfield Stadium, Manchester in 1893, Goodison Park in 1894, Burnden Park for the 1901 replay, Bramall Lane in 1912, the Crystal Palace Park, 1895 – 1914, Stamford Bridge 1920 – 22, and Lillie Bridge, Fulham, London in 1873.

* James Thurber ( 1894 – 1961 ), Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time.

Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol was founded in 1894 by Oscar Méténier, who planned it as a space for naturalist performance.

It ruined his Democratic party, opening the way for a Republican landslide in 1894 and for the agrarian and silverite seizure of his Democratic party in 1896.

In 1894, Verdi composed a short ballet for a French production of Otello, his last purely orchestral composition.

In 1894, he was passed over for promotion to professor at Berlin, most likely due to his lack of publications.

Distrust of Germany, faith in the army, and native French anti-semitism combined to make the Dreyfus Affair ( the unjust trial and condemnation of a Jewish military officer for treason in 1894 ) a political scandal of the utmost gravity.

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

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

* Oliver Elton, published 1894, title: The First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus

* 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.

It includes Japan's annexation of the Okinawan island group in 1872, the First Sino-Japanese War ( 1894 – 1895 ), the Russo-Japanese War ( 1904 – 1905 ), the annexation of Korea, and the rise of Japanese militarism ( 1905 – 1945 ).

First enacted in New Zealand in 1894, there is now legislation or binding collective bargaining regarding minimum wage in more than 90 % of all countries.

* 1894 – Port Arthur, Manchuria falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War, after which Japanese troops massacre the remaining inhabitants of the city.

* 1894 – William George Barker, Canadian First World War fighter ace ( d. 1930 )

Footage of a naval battle during the First Sino-Japanese War ( 1894 ).

Losing the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894 – 1895 was a watershed for the Qing government.

The history textbook controversy centers upon the secondary school history textbook Atarashii Rekishi Kyōkasho (" New History Textbook ") said to minimise the nature of Japanese militarism in the First Sino-Japanese War ( 1894 – 95 ), in annexing Korea in 1910, in the Second Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 45 ), and in the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ).

The First Samoan Civil War was fought roughly between 1886 and 1894, primarily between rival Samoan factions though the rival powers intervened on several occasions with military forces.

* 1894 – The Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.

* 1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang.

The Chinese turret ship Dingyuan was purportedly hit and disabled by a torpedo after numerous attacks by Japanese torpedo boats during the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894.

* The First Sino-Japanese War occurred between 1894 and 1895, primarily over control of the country Korea.

During the First Sino-Japanese War ( 1894 – 1895 ) Katsura commanded the IJA 3rd Division under his mentor, Field Marshal Yamagata Aritomo.

Raeder and Wegener were once friends, having began their careers as ensigns in 1894 abroad the cruiser Deutschland, but their differing concepts of future strategy turned them into the most bitter of enemies, and the two officers were to spent much of the 1920s waging a war in print over what the Navy should or should not had done in the First World War and what were the correct lessons of the recent conflict for the future.

It took until the defeat of the Chinese navy during the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894 – 95 for Japan to finally realize possession of Taiwan and the shifting of Asian dominance from China to Japan.

Yuan, having been put in an ineffective position, was recalled to Tianjin in July 1894, before the official outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War ( 甲午戰爭 ).

The treaty ended the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894 – 1895 as a clear victory for Japan.

The First Sino-Japanese War ( 1 August 1894 – 17 April 1895 ) was fought between Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan, primarily over control of Korea.

His assassination in China would contribute to tensions leading to the First Sino-Japanese War. On March 28, 1894, a pro-Japanese Korean revolutionary, Kim Ok-gyun, was assassinated in Shanghai.

* 1894 First Hemet High School built-Buena Vista and Acacia.

Offutt AFB is named in honor of First Lieutenant Jarvis Jennes Offutt ( 26 October 1894 – 13 August 1918 ).