Britain creates the colony of the Federated Malay States—a federation of four protected states in the Malay Peninsula—Selangor, Perak, Negeri Sembilan and Pahang—in 1895; rubber plantations are established and tin mining begins.

In 1873, the British had intervened militarily in a civil war in Sungai Ujong to preserve British economic interests, and placed the country under the control of a British Resident.

Jelebu followed in 1886, and the remaining states in 1895.

When the Federated Malay States (FMS) is established, Sungai Ujong and Jelebu are reunited to the confederation of small states and the whole, under the old name of the Negeri Sembilan, is placed under a single Resident and becomes a member of the FMS.

China’s troubles with Japan in the nineteenth century reach a nadir with the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895, resulting in the loss of Taiwan to Japan, the recognition of Korean independence and the granting of concessions to Japan and the European powers.

Japan’s small but modernized forces handily defeat the larger Chinese army in Korea.

The April 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki forces China to recognize Korean independence and transfers Taiwan (Formosa), the Pescadorees and Manchuria’s Liaotung Peninsula to Japanese control.

European pressure results in the return of the Liaodong Peninsula to China in return for China’s granting of concessions to Japan and the European powers.

The victorious Japanese begin an occupation of newly independent Korea.

The Guangxu Emperor reportedly expresses his wish to abdicate following the Qing Empire's defeat and forced agreement to the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki.

Lenin and several other members of the Marxist organization known as the Union of Struggle are arrested, imprisoned, and sent in exile to Siberia in 1895.

Edvard Munch creates an especially powerful image of the surrender, or transcendence, of individuality in his Madonna (Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo).

In this painting, Munch shows a naked woman with her head thrown back in ecstasy, her eyes closed, and a red halo-like shape above her flowing black hair.

This may be understood as the moment of conception, but there is more than a hint of death in the woman's beautiful face.

In Munch's art, woman is an "other" with whom union is desperately desired, yet feared because it threatens the destruction of the creative ego.

He adds to the Frieze the painting Jealousy (The Munch Museum / The Munch-Ellingsen Group).

If isolation and loneliness, always present in his work, are especially emphasized in these pictures, they are equally apparent in Death in the Sick Room (Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo), one of his many paintings about death.

Here the focus is not on the dying child, who is not even visible, but on the living, each wrapped in their own experience of grief and unable to communicate or offer each other any consolation.

The claustrophobically enclosed space and the steeply rushing perspective of the floor heighten the picture's power.

laude Monet visits Sandvika in Norway inn 1895, touring the country with his stepson Jacques Hoschedé, who lives in Christiania (now Oslo).

Neurologist Sigmund Freud, his interest in hysteria stimulated by Joseph Breuer’s successful use of therapeutic hypnosis and by Freud’s studies with celebrated French neurologist Jean Martin Charcot in Paris, takes up Breuer’s “cathartic method".

In 1895, Freud and Breuer publish their findings in Studies in Hysteria , which outlines their “talking cure” and inaugurates psychoanalysis.

Freud describes the evolution of his clinical method and sets out his theory of the psychogenetic origins of hysteria, demonstrated in several case histories,

The French vice consul of Diyarbakır, Gustave Meyrier, recounts to Ambassador Paul Cambon stories of Armenian women and children being assaulted and killed and described the attackers "as cowardly as they were cruel. They refused to attack where people defended themselves and instead concentrated on defenseless districts."

The worst atrocity takes place in Urfa, where Ottoman troops burn the Armenian cathedral, in which three thousand Armenians have taken refuge, and shoot at anyone who tries to escape.

Stefan Stambolov is gunned down on the streets of Sofia on July 3, 1895; the assassins appear to be some of the Macedonian radicals earlier persecuted by Stambolov.

The new administration is mainly conservative, and Prince Ferdinand becomes the dominant force in Bulgarian policy making.

France makes Madagascar a Protectorate in 1895.