Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X-rays
Within weeks he X-rayed his wife Anna Bertha's hand. The image, wedding ring included, became the first famous medical X-ray.
Around the same time
- Queen Victoria is on the British throne.
- The Eiffel Tower was finished a few years earlier.
- This discovery will win the very first Nobel Prize in Physics.
- The next year, the first modern Olympic Games open in Athens.
- Weeks later, the Lumière brothers hold their first public film screening in Paris.