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

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.

Dickson after he left the Edison company in 1895.

The two married July 25, 1895 ; they had two surviving children, a boy, Reed, and a girl, Susanne — a third child, Winifred, died almost immediately after being born.

She was raised Roman Catholic after her alcoholic father left his family in 1895.

* 1895 – At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.

In April 1895 the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen struck out for the Pole on skis after leaving Nansen's icebound ship Fram.

In 1895, after the first difficult years and near bankruptcy, the Philipses brought in Anton, Gerard's younger brother by sixteen years.

The first was begun by Danish astronomer Hans Emil Lau who, after studying the data on the orbit of Uranus from 1690 to 1895, concluded that one trans-Neptunian planet alone could not account for the discrepancies in its orbit, and postulated the position of two planets he believed were responsible.

The code was originally known as " rugby football "; it was not until after the schism in England in 1895, which resulted in the separate code of rugby league, that the sport took on the name " rugby union " to differentiate it from the league game.

South Australia granted restricted women's suffrage in 1861, and in 1895 became the second place in the world to grant universal suffrage ( after New Zealand ), and the first where women had the dual rights to vote and to stand for election.

The play's original Broadway production opened at the Empire Theater on 22 April 1895, but closed after only twelve performances.

This amendment exempted income taxes from the constitutional requirements regarding direct taxes, after income taxes on rents, dividends, and interest were ruled to be direct taxes in Pollock v. Farmers ' Loan & Trust Co. ( 1895 ).

* Ulysses was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915 ; renamed Grierson after 1895

Líf and Lífþrasir after emerging from Hoddmímis holt ( 1895 ) by Lorenz Frølich

But Hearst became a war hawk after a rebellion broke out in Cuba in 1895.

Washington was a dominant figure of the African-American community from 1890 to his death in 1915, especially after his Atlanta Address of 1895.

By way of example, and following Germany's decision after the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ) to extract reparations to facilitate a move to the gold standard, Japan gained the needed reserves after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 – 1895.

Puccini saw Sardou's play when it was touring Italy in 1889 and, after some vacillation, obtained the rights to turn the work into an opera in 1895.

He abandoned this idea after being criticised in Welsh newspapers for bringing about the defeat of the Liberal Party in the 1895 election and when, at a meeting in Newport on 16 January 1896, the South Wales Liberal Federation, led by David Alfred Thomas and Robert Bird moved that he be not heard.

In 1893, Westinghouse Electric was hired to design a system to generate alternating current on Niagara Falls, and three years after that, the world's first large AC power system was created, activated on August 26, 1895.

The first of these great races was the Paris – Bordeaux – Paris race of June 1895, won by Paul Koechlin in a Peugeot, despiting arriving 11 hours after Émile Levassor in a Panhard et Levassor.

When the Japanese acquired Taiwan in 1895 after the First Sino-Japanese War, they retained Taipei as the capital of the island, and also advanced extensive urban planning in Taipei.

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.

The Spiders faced the Baltimore Orioles in the Temple Cup, a precursor to the World Series, in 1895.

* 1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D. C., to New York, New York, the first U. S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

Blake and Lee met around 1895 while both attended Primary School No. 2 at 200 East Street in Baltimore.

In 1895, the Spiders again finished second, this time to the equally rough-and-tumble Baltimore Orioles.

# Hughie Jennings: 425 ( Baltimore Orioles League, 1895 )

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra was the first permanent orchestra in the city since 1895, when the Peabody Orchestra dissolved ; it opened in 1916 with conductor Gustav Strube ; this came only three year's after the formation of the short-lived Baltimore Opera Society, which was eventually replaced by the Baltimore Opera in 1927.

# Hughie Jennings: 425 ( Baltimore Orioles League, 1895 )

Jennings was a leader, both as a batter and as a shortstop, with the Baltimore Orioles teams that won National League championships in 1894, 1895, and 1896.

von Siemens experimental train, 1879Electric locomotive of the Baltimore Belt Line, 1895: The steam locomotive was not detached for passage through the tunnel.

The first use of electrification on a mainline was on a four-mile stretch of the Baltimore Belt Line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ( B & O ) in 1895.

In 1895 and 1896, Burkett's two best seasons, the Cleveland Spiders finished second twice and faced off against the Baltimore Orioles both seasons in the Temple Cup series, beating the Orioles in the 1895 series with Cy Young pitching three victories.

He was the starting second baseman for the old Baltimore Orioles in 1895.

The Little Miami's most serious competitor, the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway ( 1895 – 1917 ), would become part of the Baltimore and Ohio system.

Early ( 1895 ) flat pantograph on a Baltimore Belt Line | Baltimore & Ohio Railroad electric locomotive.

A flat slide-pantograph was invented in 1895 at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and in Germany in 1900 by Siemens & Halske.

On October, 1895 ; however, at the inauguration of an institute named for him in Baltimore, Maryland, Douglass said that the mission was “ to be a dispenser of knowledge, a radiator of light.

Entered railway service May 1, 1889, since when he was consecutively to January 1, 1890, draftsman, Motive Power Department, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway ; January 1, 1889, to February 1, 1892, Testing Department and Drawing Room, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Baltimore, Maryland ; February 1, 1892, to June 1892, special testing work, Mexican Central Railroad, Mexico City ; June 1892, to December 1894, general railroad engineering in Chicago, chiefly with Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad and in railway newspaper work ; July 1895, to September 1896, draftsman, Northwestern Elevated Railroad, Chicago ; July 1, 1897, consulting engineer, Chicago ; July 1, 1897, to August 10, 1899, mechanical engineer, Chicago and North Western Railway and secretary, Western Railway Club ; August 15, 1899, to November 1, 1904, mechanical engineer, New York Central and Hudson River Railroad ; November 1, 1904, to 1910, general mechanical engineer, same road ; Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, Boston and Albany Railroad, Lake Erie and Western Railroad, and Indiana, Illinois and Iowa Railroad ; September 15, 1905, to 1910, also general mechanical engineer Rutland Railroad ; November 1, 1911, to 1913, vice-president, Hutchins Car Roofing.