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| 1894 |
| | | Harold Macmillan is born in London, son of the publisher Maurice Macmillan and his American wife, Nellie Tarleton | |
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| 1894 |
| | | Gladstone retires as Britain's prime minister and his place is taken by his foreign secretary, Lord Rosebery | |
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| 1894 |
| | | France and Russia, alarmed by Germany's ambitions, sign a defensive Franco-Russian alliance | |
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| 1894 |
| | | French-born artist and author George du Maurier publishes his novel Trilby | |
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| 1894 |
| | | Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book surrounds the child Mowgli with a collection of vivid animal guardians | |
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| 1894 |
| | | Wealthy US astronomer Percival Lowell builds an observatory at Mars Hill in Flagstaff, Arizona | |
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| 1894 |
| | | US Socialist Eugene Debs comes to prominence as leader of a strike by railway workers against the Pullman Company | |
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| 1894 |
| | | London's Tower Bridge raises its roadway for the first time to let a ship pass up the Thames | |
|  | Tower Bridge, by C.F. Kell, c.1894
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| 1894 |
| | | The Basque Nationalist Party is founded, beginning more than a century of separatist unrest in northwest Spain | |
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| 1894 |
| | | Scottish physicist William Ramsay isolates argon, following Rayleigh's discovery that an undiscovered gas combines with nitrogen in the air | |
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