Resultado de búsqueda
Historical events from year 1894. Learn about 159 famous, scandalous and important events that happened in 1894 or search by date or keyword.
February 7 – 5-month Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894 begins; February 9 – Milton S. Hershey establishes the Hershey Chocolate Company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. February 17 – Outlaw John Wesley Hardin is released from prison. March 12 – Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
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 1 – Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota, kills more than 450 people.
20 de jul. de 1998 · Pullman Strike, (May 11, 1894–c. July 20, 1894), in U.S. history, widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States in June–July 1894. The federal government’s response to the unrest marked the first time that an injunction was used to break a strike.
Historical Events for the Year 1894. 1st January » The Manchester Ship Canal, is officially opened to traffic. 7th January » William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for film called motion picture film.
What happened and who was famous in 1894? Browse important and historic events, world leaders, famous birthdays and notable deaths from the year 1894.
23 June – a firedamp explosion at Albion Colliery, Cilfynydd, Glamorgan, kills 290 coal miners and 123 horses underground. [4] [5] 30 June – Tower Bridge in London opened for traffic. [3] September – British Association for the Advancement of Science inaugurates an Ethnographic Survey of the United Kingdom. [6]
