Dreyfus Arrested
June 24, 1894
Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery officer on the French general staff, was arrested on charges of selling secrets to Germany based on handwriting that was not his. Convicted in a secret trial, he was stripped of his rank in a public ceremony and shipped to Devil's Island. The Dreyfus Affair would split France for a decade.
In context
Also in 1894 (4 other events on record)
- First Sino-Japanese War · East Asia · War
- Nicholas II Takes Throne · Europe · Politics
- Pullman Strike · North America · Politics
- Dreyfus Convicted · Europe · Politics
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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