1895

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( 1890s: )     1895
In order to make Korea a puppet state, Japanese agents kill Empress Myeongseong, a "hideous event, crudely conceived and brutally executed."

US

In the 1895 case of Sparf v. United States written by Justice John Marshall Harlan, the United States Supreme Court held 5 to 4 that a trial judge has no responsibility to inform the jury of the right to nullify laws.

Events

January–March

• January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
• January 17 – Félix Faure is elected President of the French Republic, after the resignation of Jean Casimir-Perier.
• February 20 – The gold reserve of the U.S. Treasury is saved, when J. P. Morgan and the Rothschilds loan $65 million worth of gold to the United States government. The offering of syndicate bonds sells out only 22 minutes after the New York market opens, and just two hours after going on sale in London.
• February 20 – Venezuelan crisis of 1895: U.S. President Grover Cleveland signs into law a bill resulting from the proposition of House Resolution 252, by William Lindsay Scruggs and Congressman Leonidas Livingston, to the third session of the 53rd Congress of the United States of America. The bill recommends that Venezuela and Great Britain settle their dispute by arbitration.
• February 25 – The first rebellions take place, marking the start of the Cuban War of Independence.
• March 30 – Rudolf Diesel patents the Diesel engine in Germany.
• April 17 – The Treaty of Shimonoseki is signed between China and Japan. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea, and to concede the southern portion of Fengtien province, Taiwan, and the Pescadores Islands to Japan. The huge indemnity exacted from China is used to establish the Yawata Iron and Steel Works in Japan.
• May 2 – Gongche Shangshu movement: Thousands of Beijing scholars and citizens protest against the Treaty of Shimonoseki.
• May 27 – In re Debs: The Supreme Court of the United States decides that the federal government has the right to regulate interstate commerce, legalizing the military suppression of the Pullman Strike.
• June 11 – Britain annexes Tongaland, between Zululand and Mozambique.
• June 20 – The Kiel Canal, connecting the North Sea to the Baltic across the base of the Jutland peninsula in Germany, is officially opened.
• June 20 – The Treaty of Amapala establishes the union of Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador (which ends in 1898).
• July 31 – The Basque Nationalist Party (Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco) is founded, by Basque nationalist leader Sabino Arana.
• October 1 – French troops capture Antananarivo, Madagascar.
• October 8 – The Eulmi Incident: Empress Myeongseong of Korea is killed at her private residence within Gyeongbokgung Palace, by Japanese agents.
• November 27 – 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 his death.
• December
  • Ottoman troops burn 3,000 Armenians alive in Urfa .
  • The Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War begins.
• December 28 – Auguste and Louis Lumière display their first moving picture film in Paris.

Date unknown

• German trade unions have c. 270,000 members.
• Raiffeisen Cooperative Credit and Saving Bank, as predecessor of Rabo Bank, a multiple financial service on worldwide, founded in Netherlands.

 

Events

Event
Pax Brittanica
Dreyfus Affair

 

A New Group

Group	Image	Type	Description
Aston University		Public	Formerly the Birmingham Municipal Technical School

 

A Death

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Summary
Friedrich Engels	28 November 1820	5 August 1895	London England	Author Socialism

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
J. Edgar Hoover	1 January 1895	US Washington DC	2 May 1972	Deep politician Blackmailer	US Deep politician whose position as long time FBI head allowed him to make extensive use of sexual blackmail.
Ulius Amoss	1895		1961	Spook
Will Fritz	1895	US Texas Dublin	19 April 1984	Police officer
Frazar Wilde	1895		29 May 1985	Central banker Businessperson
Count Folke Bernadotte	2 January 1895	Sweden Stockholm	17 September 1948		A member of the Swedish Royal family appointed as UN Mediator in Palestine on 14 May 1948. He was assassinated by members of the Stern Gang on the orders of its then leader Yitzhak Shamir who would later become Prime minister of Israel. Nobody has ever been prosecuted for the killing.
Henry Neil Mallon	11 January 1895		1 March 1983	Deep politician Businessperson	“surrogate uncle” to GHWB
Erik Boheman	19 January 1895		18 September 1979	Diplomat Politician	Swedish diplomat, 4 Bilderbergs from 1958 to 1962
Ernst Friedlaender	4 February 1895		13 January 1973	Journalist	Strongly pro-EU German editor
V. J. Koningsberger	10 February 1895	Dutch East Indies Buitenzorg	28 February 1966	Academic	Dutch academic who attended the first Bilderberg meeting
Dick Ellis	13 February 1895	Australia Sydney	5 July 1975	Spook Soldier
Ralph Cochrane	24 February 1895	Scotland Springfield Fife	17 December 1977	Pilot	RAF Air Chief Marshal, Bilderberg
Matthew B. Ridgway	3 March 1895	United States Virginia Fort Monroe	26 July 1993	Soldier
Douglas Reed	11 March 1895		26 August 1976	Author Journalist
Christian Herter	28 March 1895	France Paris	30 December 1966	Politician	United States Secretary of State. Double Bilderberger
John J. McCloy	31 March 1895	Pennsylvania Philadelphia	11 March 1989	Diplomat Politician Lawyer Deep politician Central banker	US deep politician, CFR Chair for 17 years, President of the World Bank ...
Clint Murchison Sr	11 April 1895	US Dallas Texas	20 July 1969	Businessperson
Joseph Johnson	30 April 1895		1990	Deep state operative	Inaugural US secretary of the annual Bilderberg, Bilderberg Steering committee member.
George Perkins Jr	2 May 1895		11 January 1960	Diplomat	US diplomat who went to the first Bilderberg. US Permanent Representative to NATO in the 1950s
Prescott Bush	15 May 1895	Ohio Columbus	8 October 1972	Politician Banker Deep politician Businessperson	Bonesman father of the Bush family
Ralph Stevenson	16 May 1895	British Raj	23 June 1977	Diplomat	British diplomat with spook connections
John Hull	26 May 1895	United States Ohio Greenfield	10 June 1975	Soldier
William Guy Carr	2 June 1895	Lancashire Formby England	2 October 1959	Author Spook Mariner
Robert Cutler	12 June 1895	Boston Massachusetts	8 May 1974	Spook
Nahum Goldmann	10 July 1895		29 August 1982		President of the World Jewish Congress for 26 years
Walter Dornberger	6 September 1895	Germany Gießen	27 June 1980	Rocket scientist
Robert A. Lovett	14 September 1895	United States Texas Huntsville	7 May 1986	Deep state operative Businessperson
John Diefenbaker	18 September 1895		16 August 1979	Politician	A Canadian PM who fought the Canadian Deep state
Flora Solomon	28 September 1895	Russia Pinsk	18 July 1984	Spook
Liaquat Ali Khan	1 October 1895	India Karnal Punjab	16 October 1951	Politician	Pakistan's first and longest serving Prime Minister, murdered by the USA in order to facilitate their access to oil.
Walter Bedell Smith	5 October 1895	Indianapolis Indiana	9 August 1961	Spook General
Juan Perón	8 October 1895	Argentina Buenos Aires Lobos	1 July 1974	Soldier Politician
Levi Eshkol	25 October 1895	Russian Empire Orativ Kiev Governorate	26 February 1969	Politician
Ralph J. Canine	9 November 1895	Indiana Flora	8 March 1969	Spook Soldier
George Saxe-Coburg-Gotha	14 December 1895	Norfolk York Cottage Sandringham House UK	6 February 1952
George Estabrooks	16 December 1895		30 December 1973	Spook Psychologist	A psychologist who assisted with MK Ultra and boasted of using hypnotism to create an assassin.
E. Roland Harriman	24 December 1895	New York	16 February 1978	Central banker

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