Timeline December 1895

Events in December 1895 3

• 1895 First Italo-Ethiopian War begins Italy's colonial invasion of Ethiopia opens with the Battle of Amba Alagi Italian forces seeking to expand their colonial holdings in the Horn of Africa clashed with Ethiopian troops at Amba Alagi on 7 December 1895, opening the First Italo-Ethiopian War. Emperor Menelik II mobilized a large Ethiopian army in response. The war ended in 1896 with Ethiopia's decisive victory at Adwa, preserving its independence.
• 1895 Lumiere brothers' first public film screening The Cinematographe debuts at the Grand Cafe in Paris On 28 December 1895 Auguste and Louis Lumiere held the first paying public screening of projected motion pictures, at the Salon Indien du Grand Cafe in Paris. The program of short films, including Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory, is widely regarded as the birth of cinema as a public medium. The event launched a global entertainment industry.
• 1895 Jameson Raid begins Botched British raid into the Transvaal destabilizes southern Africa On 29 December 1895 Leander Starr Jameson led an armed raid of British colonial police into the South African Republic (Transvaal), intending to spark an uprising among foreign workers against the Boer government. The raid failed within days and Jameson was captured, but it inflamed tensions between Britain and the Boer republics. It is widely seen as a contributing cause of the Second Boer War.