Timeline: 1895 - 1899

5th January - French officer Alfred Dreyfus was stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
13th January - First Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Coatit – Italian forces defeated the Ethiopians.
20th February- The gold reserve of the U.S. Treasury was saved, when J. P. Morgan and the Rothschilds loaned $65 million worth of gold to the United States government.
Venezuelan crisis of 1895: U.S. President Grover Cleveland signed 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 recommended that Venezuela and Great Britain settle their dispute by arbitration.
25th February – The first rebellions of the Cuban War of Independence break out.
4th March – Japanese troops captured Liaoyang, and landed in Taiwan.
17th April - The Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed between China and Japan. This marked the end of the First Sino-Japanese War.
5th June – The Liberal Revolution began in Ecuador, making the civil war more intense in the country.
25th June - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (Conservative) became British Prime Minister, for the third time.
8th November - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-rays.

Marie Curie introduced the word 'radioactivity'.
Marie & Pierre Curie discovered Polonium and Radium.
5th April - The Greco-Turkish War, also called "Thirty Days' War", was declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
30th April – J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announced his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle.

15th February - The USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana Harbour, Cuba, for reasons never fully established, killing 266 men. The event precipitated the United States' declaration of war on Spain two months later.
1st March - Vladimir Lenin formed the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.

1st January - Cuba was liberated from Spanish rule by the US, American occupation continued until 1902
4th February - The Philippine-American War began with fighting between American and Philippine revolutionary forces.
6th February - The Spanish-American War ended, the peace treaty was ratified by the US Senate.
29th July - The first international Peace Conference ended, with the signing of the First Hague Convention.

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