1894

Events from the year 1894 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Grover Cleveland (D-NY)
* Vice President: Adlai E. Stevenson I (D-IL)
* Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (IL)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Charles Frederick Crisp (D-GA)
* Congress: 53rd
==Events==
* January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
* January 9 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard, in Lexington, Massachusetts.
* 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.
* March 25 – Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs from Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
* April 21 – A bituminous coal miners' strike closes mines across the central U.S.
* May 1
** Coxey's Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
** The May Day Riots of 1894 break out in Cleveland, Ohio.
* May 11 – Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a "wildcat" (without union approval) strike to protest lowered wages without an equivalent reduction in expenses charged in the company town of Pullman, Chicago.
* July 1 – A fire at the site of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago destroys most of the remaining buildings.
* July 4 – The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
* September 1 – Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota kills more than 450 people.
* September 4 – In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
* September 30 – New York Giants defeat Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 0 to win the First Temple Cup in the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs.
* October 3 – Pomfret School is founded in Connecticut.
* November 1 – The first issue of Billboard magazine is published in Cincinnati, Ohio by William Donaldson and James Hennegan. Initially, it covers the advertising and bill posting industry, and is at the time known as Billboard Advertising.
* November 5 – West Palm Beach, Florida is incorporated as a city.
* November 6 – Republican win by a landslide in the House of Representatives elections, which sets the stage for the decisive 1896 presidential election.
* December 6 – Kate Chopin's feminist short story "The Story of an Hour" is first published, in the magazine Vogue.
==Memoriam==
* January 15 – Henry Mower Rice, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1858 to 1863 (aged 77; San Antonio, TX, USA)
* February 4 – Morton S. Wilkinson, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1859 to 1865 (aged 75; Mankato, MN, USA)
* February 28 – James W. McDill, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1881 to 1883 (aged 59; Creston, IA, USA)
* March 2
** Jubal Early, Confederate general (aged 77; Lynchburg, VA, USA)
** William H. Osborn, railroad tycoon (aged 73; New York City, NY, USA)
* March 3 – Ned Williamson, baseball player (aged 36; Willow Springs, AR, USA)
* March 26 – Alfred H. Colquitt, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1883 to 1894 (aged 69; Washington, DC, USA)
* March 28 – George Ticknor Curtis, author, lawyer and historian (aged 81; New York City, NY, USA)
* April 7 – Benjamin Franklin King Jr., poet and humorist (aged 37; Bowling Green, KY, USA)
* April 14 – Zebulon Baird Vance, Confederate military officer in the American Civil War, the 37th and 43rd Governor of North Carolina, U.S. Senator (aged 63; Washington, DC, USA)
* April 15 – James Harvey, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1874 to 1877 (aged 60; Riley County, KS, USA)
* April 30 – Francis B. Stockbridge, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1887 to 1894 (aged 68; Chicago, IL, USA)
* June 17 – William Hart, landscape painter (aged 71; Mount Vernon, NY, USA)
* June 20 – Bishop W. Perkins, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1892 to 1893 (aged 52; Washington, DC, USA)
* June 24 – George Peter Alexander Healy, American portrait painter (aged 80; Chicago, IL, USA)
* July 19 – William B. Avery, Union Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (aged 52; Bayside, RI, USA)
* August 14 – John Quincy Adams II, politician (aged 60; Quincy, MA, USA)
* August 15 – Arthur Rotch, architect (aged 44; Beverly, MA, USA)
* September 1
** Nathaniel P. Banks, 24th Governor of Massachusetts (aged 78; Waltham, MA, USA)
** Boston Corbett, England-born Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth (aged 62; Hinckley, MN, USA)
** Samuel J. Kirkwood, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1881 to 1882 (aged 80; Iowa City, IA, USA)
* September 30 – Absolom M. West, planter, Confederate general, politician, railroad president and labor organizer (aged 76; Holly Springs, MS, USA)
* October 7
** Andrew Gregg Curtin, 15th Governor of Pennsylvania (aged 79; Bellefonte, PA, USA)
** Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., physician and writer (aged 85; Boston, MA, USA)
* October 15 – Macon Bolling Allen, first African American to become a lawyer, argue before a jury, and hold a judicial position in the United States (aged 78; Washington, DC, USA)
* October 18 – William F. Raynolds, military engineer (aged 74; Detroit, MI, USA)
* November 30 – Joseph E. Brown, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1880 to 1891 (aged 73; Atlanta, GA, USA)
* December 19 – James L. Alcorn, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1871 to 1877 (aged 78; Friars Point, MS, USA)
==External links==
* 1894 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 12