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1.4 April events

• April 6 - Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
• April 14 - a major earthquake severely damages Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• April 17 - The Treaty of Maguan (also as ?Treaty of Shimonoseki?) was signed between China and Japan. This marks the end of the first Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.

1.5 May events

• May 25 - Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of " sodomy and gross indecency" and sentenced to serve two years in a London prison.

1.6 June events

• June 11 - Britain annexes Togoland
• June 28 - Union of Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador begins (ends in 1898).

1.7 August events

• August 19 - American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
• August 29 - The sport of rugby league is formed at a meeting in the George Hotel, Huddersfield, England.

1.8 September events

• September 3 - The first professional football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club. (Latrobe won the contest 12-0.).

1.9 November events

• November 5 - George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
• November 8 - Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
• November 27 - At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies (he died of a cerebral hemorrhage on December 10, 1896).

1.10 Undated events

• Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposes a space elevator
• Last major earthquake in the New Madrid Fault Zone
• Grace Chisholm Young, the first woman awarded a doctorate at a German university

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