1894

1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1860s  1870s  1880s  – 1890s –  1900s  1910s  1920s
Years:	1891 1892 1893 – 1894 – 1895 1896 1897

1894 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1894 MDCCCXCIV
Ab urbe condita	2647
Armenian calendar	1343 ԹՎ ՌՅԽԳ
Assyrian calendar	6644
Bahá'í calendar	50–51
Balinese saka calendar	1815–1816
Bengali calendar	1301
Berber calendar	2844
British Regnal year	57 Vict. 1 – 58 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2438
Burmese calendar	1256
Byzantine calendar	7402–7403
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4590 or 4530     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4591 or 4531
Coptic calendar	1610–1611
Discordian calendar	3060
Ethiopian calendar	1886–1887
Hebrew calendar	5654–5655
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1950–1951
- Shaka Samvat	1815–1816
- Kali Yuga	4994–4995
Holocene calendar	11894
Igbo calendar	894–895
Iranian calendar	1272–1273
Islamic calendar	1311–1312
Japanese calendar	Meiji 27 (明治２７年)
Javanese calendar	1823–1824
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4227
Minguo calendar	18 before ROC 民前18年
Nanakshahi calendar	426
Thai solar calendar	2436–2437
Tibetan calendar	阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 2020 or 1639 or 867     — to — 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 2021 or 1640 or 868

Events

• Outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War
• June 30 – Tower Bridge in London opened.

Births

• February 10 - Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister
• April 17 – Nikita Krushchev, Soviet leader
• March 20 – Ky Ebright, American Olympic rowing coach (d. 1979)
• July 26 – Aldous Huxley, English writer
• November 27 - Katherine Milhous, American illustrator and writer (d. 1977)

Deaths

• 1 January – Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
• 1 November - Alexander III of Russia Czar of Russia father of Czar Nicholas II