Timeline January 1895

Events in January 1895 5

• 1849 – 1895 Lord Randolph Churchill (1849-1895) Died 24 January 1895, aged 45 Lord Randolph Churchill was a British Conservative politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and led the party's populist "Tory Democracy" faction. His political career collapsed after he resigned from the cabinet in 1886 in a failed gambit for greater influence. He was the father of Winston Churchill.
• 1858 – 1895 Prince Henry of Battenberg (1858-1895) Died 20 January 1895, aged 37 Prince Henry of Battenberg was a German-born member of the British royal family who married Princess Beatrice, the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria. He died of malaria off the West African coast while serving with British forces in the Anglo-Ashanti War. His body was returned to England for burial.
• 1895 National Trust founded British conservation charity established to preserve heritage sites The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty was founded in England on 12 January 1895 by Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter, and Hardwicke Rawnsley. It was created to protect historic buildings and open countryside for public benefit. The organization went on to become one of the largest conservation charities in the world.
• 1895 – 1973 Artturi Ilmari Virtanen Nobel Prize in Chemistry Inventor of AIV fodder, which revolutionized food preservation and earned him a Nobel Prize.
• 1895 Henrik Bull's expedition lands at Cape Adare First confirmed human landing on the Antarctic mainland On 24 January 1895 members of Henrik Bull's Norwegian whaling and exploration expedition, aboard the Antarctic, went ashore at Cape Adare. It is regarded as the first confirmed landing by humans on the Antarctic continent. The landing helped open the era of Antarctic exploration that followed in the early twentieth century.