January–March thumb|120px|right| January 5: Röntgen rays. thumb|120px|right| January 5: Röntgen X-ray. January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end as Jameson surrenders to the Boers. January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery, last November, of a type of electromagnetic radiation, later known as X-rays. January 6 – Cecil Rhodes is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope for his involvement in the Jameson Raid. January 7 – American culinary expert Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook. January 12 – H. L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph. January 16 – Devonport High School for Boys is founded in Plymouth (England). January 17 – Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War: British redcoats enter the Ashanti capital, Kumasi, and Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I is deposed."Ashanti Expedition (1895-1896)", in The Victorians at War, 1815-1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History, by Harold E. Raugh (ABC-CLIO, 2004) p30. January 28 – Walter Arnold, of East Peckham, Kent, England, is fined 1 shilling for speeding at , exceeding the contemporary urban speed limit of , the first speeding fine. February 1 – Puccini's opera La bohème premieres in Turin, Italy. February 11 – Oscar Wilde's play Salomé (1891) has its stage premiere (while Wilde is in prison) in its original French in Paris. February 19 – Braamfontein Explosion: A train carrying 56 tons of dynamite explodes at Braamfontein, Johannesburg, killing more than 78 people.The Great Dynamite Explosion, report by J.G. Blumberg, Fairmount School, Johannesburg, excerpt from the autobiography of Dutch immigrant Jan de Veer who came to South Africa in 1893. March 1 – Battle of Adwa: Ethiopia defends its independence from Italy, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War. March 3 – Publication begins for Der Eigene, the world's first magazine with an orientation to male homosexuality, by Adolf Brand in Berlin. March 9 – Responding to national outrage at the defeat at Adwa, Italian Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns. March 29 – The Royal College of St Patrick, Maynooth in Ireland is granted the status of pontifical university by charter of the Holy See.Rescripts of the Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide.
January–March thumb|120px|right| January 5: Röntgen rays. thumb|120px|right| January 5: Röntgen X-ray. January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end as Jameson surrenders to the Boers. January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery, last November, of a type of electromagnetic radiation, later known as X-rays. January 6 – Cecil Rhodes is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope for his involvement in the Jameson Raid. January 7 – American culinary expert Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook. January 12 – H. L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph. January 16 – Devonport High School for Boys is founded in Plymouth (England). January 17 – Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War: British redcoats enter the Ashanti capital, Kumasi, and Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I is deposed."Ashanti Expedition (1895-1896)", in The Victorians at War, 1815-1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History, by Harold E. Raugh (ABC-CLIO, 2004) p30. January 28 – Walter Arnold, of East Peckham, Kent, England, is fined 1 shilling for speeding at , exceeding the contemporary urban speed limit of , the first speeding fine. February 1 – Puccini's opera La bohème premieres in Turin, Italy. February 11 – Oscar Wilde's play Salomé (1891) has its stage premiere (while Wilde is in prison) in its original French in Paris. February 19 – Braamfontein Explosion: A train carrying 56 to,ns of dynamite explodes at Braamfontein, Johannesburg, killing more than 78 people.The Great Dynamite Explosion, report by J.G. Blumberg, Fairmount School, Johannesburg, excerpt from the autobiography of Dutch immigrant Jan de Veer who came to South Africa in 1893. March 1 – Battle? of Adwa: Ethiopia defends its independence from Italy, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War. March 3 – Publication begins for Der Eigene, the world's first magazine with an orientation to male homosexuality, by Adolf Brand in Berlin. March 9 – Responding to national outrage at the defeat at Adwa, Italian Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns. March 29 – The Royal College of St Patrick, Maynooth in Ireland is granted the status of pontifical university by charter of the Holy See.Rescripts of the Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide.