Timeline - 1895 - 1899

January 5 - French officer Alfred Dreyfus was stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island, on trumped up charges, believed to be because he was Jewish.
January 13 - First Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Coatit – Italian forces defeated the Ethiopians.
February 20 - 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.
April 17 - The Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed between China and Japan. This marked the end of the First Sino-Japanese War.
25th June - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (Conservative) became British Prime Minister, for the third time.
8th November - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered X-rays.

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.