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Events

• January 4 – A military alliance is established between the France and the Russian Empire.
• February 15 – At 04:51 GMT, French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, England, with a bomb, killing himself instead.
• March 2 – William Gladstone resigns as British Prime Minister.
• March 25 – Coxey's Army (of the unemployed), the first significant protest march in the United States, departs from Massillon, Ohio, for Washington, D.C.
• April 11 – Britain establishes a protectorate over Uganda.
• May 1– Coxey's Army arrives in Washington; Coxey is arrested on the Capitol grounds.
• May 1 – The May Day Riots (against unemployment) break out in Cleveland, Ohio.
• May 11 – Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company factory workers go on a "wildcat" (without union approval) strike in Illinois.
• June 22 – Dahomey becomes a French colony.
• June 24 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, president of France, is assassinated.
• July 16 – The United Kingdom and Japan sign the Anglo-Japanese Treaty, as the U.K. becomes the first of the Western nations to agree to give up its extraterritorial rights in Japan.
• August 1 – War is declared between the Qing Empire of China and the Empire of Japan, over their rival claims of influence on their common ally, the Joseon dynasty of Korea. The event marks the start of the First Sino-Japanese War.
• August 31 – New Zealand enacts the world's first minimum wage law, to take effect on January 1, in the passage of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act of 1894.
• September 4 – In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
• October 1 – The Owl Club of Cape Town, South Africa, a dining club, has its first formal meeting.
• November 1 – Emperor Alexander III of Russia is succeeded by his son, Nicholas II.
• November 7 – The Masonic Grand Lodge de France is founded, splitting from the larger and older Grand Orient de France.
• November 26 – Wedding of Nicholas II of Russia and Alix of Hesse in the [[Grand Church of the Winter
• December 18 – Women in South Australia become the first in Australia to gain the right to vote and to be elected to Parliament, taking effect from 1895, after decades of activism.
• December 21 – Mackenzie Bowell becomes Canada's fifth prime minister.