Timeline Thursday 4 January 1894

Events on Thursday 4 January 1894 2

• 1894 Franco-Russian Alliance formalized Republican France and Tsarist Russia align against Germany The military convention between France and Russia, signed in 1892, was formally ratified in early January 1894, creating a defensive alliance against the German and Austro-Hungarian empires. It ended France's diplomatic isolation following its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. The alliance became a cornerstone of the European system that shaped the alignments of the First World War.
• 1894 The Franco-Russian Alliance Paris and Saint Petersburg The alliance Bismarck had spent his career preventing. Germany now faced the prospect of war on two fronts, which shaped every plan it made thereafter.