* George Fraser Kerr, VC, MC & Bar, MM ( 1895 – 1929 ), CAPT, 3rd battalion ( Toronto ) Central Ontario Regiment, CEF.

In 1895, the battalion deployed to Malta in the Mediterranean and returned home again in 1898.

In January 1895, the battalion provided a 100-man guard of honour when the body of Canadian Prime Minister John Thompson was returned from Britain.

Lansdowne was originally commissioned into a volunteer battalion of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry, but transferred to the ( regular ) Grenadier Guards in 1895 and the Irish Guards on its formation in 1900, resigning in 1906 with the rank of Major.

A four-gun battery of Model 1895 ten-barrel Gatling Guns in. 30 Army made by Colt's Arms Company was formed into a separate detachment led by Lt. John " Gatling Gun " Parker.

* 1895 – The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.

The IRA, formed in 1895, preceded the NCAA by at least ten years and provided a guideline for the rules of eligibility and sportsmanship later adopted by the NCAA when it was formed.

The predecessors to the United States Bowling Congress, formed in 1995, were the male-only American Bowling Congress founded in 1895, and the female-only Women's International Bowling Congress founded in 1927, which combined in 1995 to form the USBC.

Silver forces were supported by the Democratic National Bimetallic Committee, the umbrella group formed in 1895 to support silver Democrats in their insurgency against Cleveland.

A hundred and thirty Arts and Crafts organisations were formed in Britain, most between 1895 and 1905.

The University of Minnesota Duluth ( UMD ) became part of the system in 1947, though the campus has a history stretching back to 1895 when it was formed as the Normal School at Duluth.

The fault was first identified in Northern California by the UC Berkeley geology professor Andrew Lawson in 1895 and named by him after a small lake which lies in a linear valley formed by the fault just south of San Francisco, the Laguna de San Andreas.

IIT was formed in 1940 by the merger of Armour Institute of Technology ( founded in 1890 ) and Lewis Institute ( founded in 1895 ).

Citrus was an important industry when the county was formed, although a decline followed a freeze in 1895.

Having agreed to a set of policies, the Conservatives and Liberal Unionists formed a government on 24 June 1895.

Mingo County is the newest county in the state, formed by an act of the state legislature in 1895 from parts of Logan County.

Saluda County was formed from northern and eastern portions of Edgefield County on 14 September 1895 and named thus two days later.

The first such organization was the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, which is the National Trust of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, formed in 1895 and operating as a charitable organisation.

It was formed in 1894 and was a founder member of the North Norfolk and Norwich League, which began in 1895.

Gold was discovered at Rand Mine near the site in 1895 and a mining camp quickly formed, and was named Rand Camp, both mine and camp were named after the gold mining region in South Africa.

Cliffside Park was formed based on the results of a referendum held on January 15, 1895, from portions of Ridgefield Township at the start of the second year of the Boroughitis phenomenon then sweeping through Bergen County.

At the time it was incorporated, the township covered ( almost four times its current area of ) and included several municipalities which were formed from portions of Bloomfield during the course of the nineteenth century, including Belleville ( created on April 8, 1839 ), Montclair ( April 15, 1868 ), Woodside Township ( March 24, 1869 ) and Glen Ridge ( February 13, 1895 ).

Clinton Town was formed on April 5, 1865, within portions of the township, and became an independent municipality in 1895.

Matawan was formed as a borough on June 28, 1895, from portions of Matawan Township ( now Aberdeen Township ), based on the results of a referendum held that day.

Pompton Lakes was formed as a borough on February 26, 1895, from portions of Pompton Township, based on the results of a referendum held three days earlier.

In 1895, residents of the southern section of Manchester Township began to become disenchanted with governing officials, and following the election of 1896, many municipalities were formed.

In 1895, a post office was formed, closed two years later and then reopened in 1905.

On a bitterly cold day in January, 1895, accompanied only by Neal Brown as his deputy, Tilghman left the township of Guthrie and headed for Rock Fort and Dunn's ranch.

At the beginning of the Hippodrome I saw the Kaiser's Fountain, an ugly octagonal building with a glass dome, built in 1895 by the German Emperor, and on my left, directly across from it, the tomb of Sultan Ahmet, who constructed the Blue Mosque, more properly known by his name.

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 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 ).

" Hœnir, Lóðurr and Odin create Askr and Embla " ( 1895 ) by Lorenz Frølich.

* 1895 – American Frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.

Allowing himself to be involved in the ecclesiastical disputes that divided Hungary in 1895, he was made the subject of formal complaint by the Hungarian government and in 1896 was recalled.

The poem is quoted by Sue Bridehead in Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel, Jude the Obscure and also by Edward Ashburnham in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier.

* 1895 – Trial of the libel case instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.

In 1895, the Amir found himself unable, by reason of ill-health, to accept an invitation from Queen Victoria to visit England ; but his second son Nasrullah Khan went instead.

Thor wades through rivers while the rest of the æsir ride across Bifröst ( 1895 ) by Lorenz Frølich.

Bragi, holding a harp, sings before his wife Iðunn ( 1895 ) by Lorenz Frølich.

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

In late 1895, after advancing deep into Ethiopian territory, a small Italian-led unit was defeated by a much larger Ethiopian group at the Battle of Amba Alagi.

A very early comedy short was Watering the Gardener ( 1895 ) by the Lumière brothers.

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.

The significance of this lemma was recognized by Émile Borel ( 1895 ), and it was generalized to arbitrary collections of intervals by Pierre Cousin ( 1895 ) and Henri Lebesgue ( 1904 ).

Led by native Ohioan Cy Young, the Spiders became a contender in the mid-1890s, when they played in the Temple Cup Series ( that era's World Series ) twice, winning it in 1895.

Another highly regarded portrait from that period is New England Woman ( 1895 ), a nearly all-white oil painting which was purchased by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.