February 1 - The first close-up in a movie, taken of a sneeze, is shot in Thomas Edison's studio.
February 1 - Thomas Edison finishes building the world's first moving picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
February 3 - Abigail Ashbrook of Willingboro, New Jersey refuses to pay taxes because she is denied the right to vote.
March 12 - Three male burglars aged ten, twelve and thirteen are the youngest ever to engage in this lawlessness and are arrested in New York City.
September 9 - Ester Cleveland, second child of President Grover Cleveland, becomes the first child ever to be born to the First Lady of the United States in the White House. The first child ever born in the White House had been Thomas Jefferson's granddaughter who was born in 1806.
September 16 - Cherokee Strip Day: more than 100,000 homesteaders rush to the strip between Oklahoma and Kansas to claim shares of the 6 million acres opened up by the U.S. government.
November 19 - The first colored newspaper supplement is issued with the New York World.
