The Great Train Robbery, the first-ever Western film, was released.
The first movie projector, correctly named the kinetoscope, was patented by Thomas Edison.
The Lumière brothers record their first footage.
The world-famous Swan Lake ballet premiered in St. Petersburg at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre.
Thomas Edison completed the world's first movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
The first motion picture was filmed using several cameras to capture galloping horses.
The first motion picture was shown to a theater audience at the Philadelphia Academy of Music.
