Y. pestis was discovered in 1894 by Alexandre Yersin, a Swiss / French physician and bacteriologist from the Pasteur Institute, during an epidemic of plague in Hong Kong.

The epidemic shocked the town into improving conditions, and in 1854 the Willenhall Local Board of Health was founded, a forerunner of Willenhall Urban District Council which took over in 1894.

In 1894 Yersin was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong, to investigate the Manchurian Pneumonic Plague epidemic, and there, in a small hut next to the institute ( according to Plague by Wendy Orent ), he made his greatest discovery, that of the pathogen which causes the disease.

Plague came to British India in 1896, most likely from Hong Kong where the epidemic had been festering since 1894.

Plague came to India in 1896, most likely from Hong Kong where the epidemic had been festering since 1894.

* 1894 – Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.

The outbreak of bubonic plague in 1894 became a concern to the Hong Kong Government.

* Alexandre Yersin discovered in 1894 the pathogen of bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis ;

The Venice convention of 30 January 1892 was on cholera by the Suez Canal route ; that of Dresden of 15 April 1893, on cholera within European countries ; that of Paris of 3 April 1894, on cholera by the pilgrim traffic ; and that of Venice, on 19 March 1897, was in connection with the outbreak of plague in the East, and the conference met to settle on an international basis the steps to be taken to prevent, if possible, its spread into Europe.

The Union successfully struck the Great Northern Railway in April 1894, winning most of its demands.

When these switchmen were disciplined, the entire ARU struck the railroads on June 26, 1894.

His early immersion in nature helped him cope with tragedy that eventually struck the MacKaye family ; the frequently absent Steele died in early 1894, when Benton was fourteen.

In 1894 this became the Denton Urban District Council, with Haughton being struck out of the formal title by Order of the Lancashire County Council, although the former township still remained as ecclesiastical parishes ( Haughton, St Mary the Virgin and Haughton, St Anne ).

It was burnt down in 1894, allegedly struck by lightning, and the Chinese believed that it was due to its resemblance to the Emperor's palace, which provoked the gods.

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.

" The Russian Orthodox church built the St. Sergius Mission by 1894, and residents of Kukuktuk from 20 miles downriver moved to the mission.

In 1894, residents of the community petitioned the county to officially incorporate, and the city's name was changed to Gentry, after an official in charge of the construction of the railroad.

The town was incorporated on January 12, 1892 under the name " Rich Prairie ", however on August 15, 1894, residents voted to change the name of the town to Pierz, for Father Francis Xavier Pierz.

His efforts apparently paid off, for by 1894, Bigelow claimed 150 residents.

By 1894, the city had grown to 400 residents, one bank, two hotels, three churches, and a flouring mill.

In 1894, the residents named the community and post office Shuff in his honor.

252 residents moved there and in 1894, 71 people from the Hoh River got their own reservation.

The New York State Assembly Tenement House Committee report of 1894 surveyed 8, 000 buildings with approximately 255, 000 residents and found New York to be the most densely populated city in the world, at an average of 143 people per acre, with part of the Lower East Side having 800 residents per acre, denser than Bombay.

Byfield has had a Parish Council continuously since 1894, and this continuity has meant that the parish is actively managed for the good of its residents.

Rondeau was established in 1894 as a response to demand for cottaging opportunities by residents of nearby Chatham.

Until the last century they continued their village maintenance despite being replaced by a parish council after the Local Government Act 1894 and even today they give financial assistance to Bloxham residents.

The new Rozelle post office opened in 1894 and by the early 1900s, both the suburb itself and local residents had adopted the name.

By February 1894 the residents bought a plot of land and built an by schoolhouse.

On various occasions, in 1886, in 1894 and most importantly in 1903 there were strikes, protests and conflicts between the workers and the residents of the region.

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.

Aldous Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey, England, in 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.

* 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.

In 1894, the Westport-Newport railway line was extended to Achill Sound.

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

Its notoriety arises from an incident in 1894 in which the then owner, an English landlady named Agnes McDonnell, was savagely beaten and the house set alight, allegedly by a local man, James Lynchehaun.

At the time, in the 1890s, the issue of land ownership in Ireland was politically charged, and after the events at the Valley House in 1894 Lynchehaun was to claim that his actions were motivated by politics.

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.

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.

Schweitzer absolved the one year compulsory military service in 1894.

Carrel was a young surgeon in 1894 when the French president Sadi Carnot was assassinated with a knife.

Based on a statement by Darnley made in 1894, it was believed that a group of Victorian ladies, including Darnley's later wife Florence Morphy, made the presentation after the victory in the Third Test in 1883.

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 )

The Advances to Settlers Act of 1894 provided low-interest motgages, while the Agriculture Department disseminated information on the best farming methods.

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