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189310 Polydamas
189310 Polydamas (2006 AJ82) is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid about 8.5 km across, orbiting at 5.274 AU with 10.52-degree inclination in 1:1 resonance with Jupiter; not hazardous, observed since 2000.
1894
Year 1894 (MDCCCXCIV), common year starting on Monday: First Sino-Japanese War began, Franco-Russian Alliance formed, Dreyfus convicted, IOC founded, first Paris–Rouen automobile race, Hertz, Helmholtz, Alexander III died, Nicholas II succeeded.
1894 in science
1894 in science brought the announcement of argon, Yersin's isolation of the plague bacillus, the first effective diphtheria treatment, and Oliver Lodge's first public wireless telegraphy demonstration.
1894 Locride earthquake
The 1894 Locride earthquake, also called the Atalanti earthquake sequence, was a pair of shocks in April 1894 in Central Greece that killed more than 250 people.
1894 Syonai earthquake
The 1894 Syonai earthquake (庄内地震), also called the Sakata earthquake, was a magnitude 7.0 quake in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, on 22 October 1894 that killed 726 people.
1894 Turkey earthquake
The 1894 Turkey earthquake was a destructive earthquake that struck Istanbul and the eastern Sea of Marmara on 10 July 1894, collapsing buildings and killing hundreds.
1894 United States House of Representatives elections
1894 United States House of Representatives elections: midterms under Grover Cleveland during the Panic of 1893 depression, in which Democrats lost about 116 House seats (also reported as 117 or 125), Republicans took a 254-93 House majority, and the 54th Congress faced a record 38 contested-election cases.
1894 Venezuela earthquake
The 1894 Venezuela earthquake, known as the Gran Terremoto de los Andes, struck the Venezuelan Andes on 28 April 1894, heavily damaging Mérida and killing hundreds.
1895 Quchan earthquake
The 1895 Quchan earthquake was a large right-lateral strike-slip earthquake that struck Quchan in northeastern Iran on 17 January 1895, again destroying the town rebuilt after the 1893 earthquake.
1896
1896, also known as Meiji 29, was a leap year remembered for the first modern Olympic Games in Athens and the U.S. Supreme Court's "separate but equal" ruling.
1896 Democratic National Convention
The 1896 Democratic National Convention met in Chicago from July 7 to 11, repudiated President Cleveland, adopted the free-silver plank, and nominated 36-year-old William Jennings Bryan.
1896 Khvoy (Khoy) earthquake
The 1896 Khvoy earthquake was a destructive historical earthquake that struck the Khoy area of northwestern Iran on 5 January 1896, with a recorded death toll of 800.
1896 Sanriku earthquake
The 1896 Sanriku earthquake (Meiji Sanriku earthquake) struck off northeastern Japan on June 15, 1896, generating the deadliest tsunami in Japanese history and killing about 22,000 people.
1896 Summer Olympics
1896 Summer Olympics, Athens, first modern Olympic Games, founded by Pierre de Coubertin's IOC after the 1894 Sorbonne congress; 14 countries, about 250 male athletes, 9 sports, marathon won by Spyridon Louis.
1896 United States presidential election
1896 United States presidential election: McKinley (R) defeated William Jennings Bryan (D/Populist) in November 1896, 271-176 electoral votes, in the gold-versus-silver "battle of the standards" that began the Fourth Party System.
1897
1897: common year starting on Friday in the late Victorian era; Greco-Turkish War over Crete ending in the December treaty, First Zionist Congress in Basel, Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, first Boston Marathon, and Thomson's discovery of the electron.
1897 Assam earthquake
The 1897 Assam earthquake, also called the 1897 Shillong earthquake, struck northeast India on 12 June 1897, killing 1,542 people and ranking among the largest earthquakes of the nineteenth century.
1897 eruption of Mayon
The 1897 eruption of Mayon was a strong Vulcanian eruption in Albay, Philippines, from June to July 1897 that killed about 350 people, mostly in pyroclastic flows.
1898
1898: the Gregorian calendar year in which the Spanish-American War ended the Spanish empire, the US annexed Hawaii and bought the Philippines for $20 million, the Curies discovered radium, and Spain's Generation of '98 emerged.
1898 Canadian prohibition plebiscite
The 1898 Canadian prohibition plebiscite, held 29 September 1898, was Canada's first federal referendum and the world's first national vote on alcohol prohibition. About 51% of the 44.6% turnout favored prohibition, but Laurier declined to legislate.
1898 United States House of Representatives elections
1898 U.S. House elections: wartime midterms under President McKinley during the Spanish-American War. Republicans lost 21 seats but kept the House majority (187–161 in the 357-seat 56th Congress) while gaining in the Senate.
1899
1899 was a common year in which the Second Boer War and Philippine-American War began, the First Hague Peace Conference met, and Bayer patented aspirin.
1899 (2022 film)
1899 (2022) is a German Netflix mystery sci-fi series by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, creators of Dark, following the migrant steamship Kerberos; eight episodes, €60m budget, cancelled January 2023.
1899 (TV series)
1899 is a German multilingual Netflix mystery series (2022) by Dark creators Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar: eight episodes about immigrants on the steamship Kerberos, shot on LED Volume at Babelsberg, canceled after one season.
1899 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania
The 1899 Pennsylvania U.S. Senate election: the General Assembly held 79 ballots from January 17 to April 20, 1899 without electing Matthew Quay, who was later appointed by the governor but refused his Senate seat, leaving the seat vacant until 1901.
18F bioorthogonal radiolabeling
18F bioorthogonal radiolabeling is the attachment of fluorine-18 to biomolecules like peptides and antibodies through mild click reactions, chiefly the fast tetrazine ligation, enabling pretargeted PET imaging with lower radiation dose.
18O labeling
18O labeling is a stable isotope labeling method in quantitative proteomics in which a protease exchanges the C-terminal oxygen atoms of peptides for heavy oxygen, letting a mass spectrometer read protein abundance.
18S ribosomal RNA
18S ribosomal RNA: the small-subunit rRNA of eukaryotic 40S ribosomes, homologous to bacterial 16S rRNA, about 1.8-2.0 kb, central to translation initiation, eukaryotic phylogeny, and metabarcoding.
18th Annual Grammy Awards
18th Annual Grammy Awards: ceremony held February 28, 1976 at the Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, honoring recordings from October 1974 to October 1975. Big four winners: Captain & Tennille (Record), Paul Simon (Album), Stephen Sondheim (Song), Natalie Cole (Best New Artist); Andy Williams hosted.
18th BRICS summit
The 18th BRICS Summit, held 12–13 September 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi under India's chairship, adopted the unanimous 140-point New Delhi Declaration; eleven members and about ten partner countries attended, with Modi–Xi talks and the 2027 chairmanship going to China.