On 28 December 1895, in the Salon Indien of the Grand Cafe on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris, Auguste and Louis Lumiere showed ten short films of about 50 seconds each to a paying audience of 33 people. They included 'Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory' and 'The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat', which according to legend made the audience duck for fear of the train. Their Cinematographe, which combined camera, projector and printer in one light box, was more practical than Edison's Kinetoscope, which was for one viewer. Within a year, films were shown in cities worldwide.
Before and after
- 8 October 1895Birth of Juan Perón
- 8 November 1895Roentgen discovers X-rays
- 15 November 1895Founding of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo
- 14 December 1895Birth of George VI
- 28 December 1895The Lumiere brothers hold the first public film screening
- from 1896 to 1898Philippine Revolution
- 1896Svante Arrhenius calculates how carbon dioxide warms the planet
- from 11 February 1896 to 20 February 1897Gojong's internal exile to the Russian legation
- 1 March 1896Battle of Adwa
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- 7 May 1824Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premieres
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- 19 March 1882Construction of Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family
The era
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