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1890 (
MDCCCXC ) was a
common year starting on Wednesday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
common year starting on Monday of the
Julian calendar , the 1890th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 890th year of the
2nd millennium , the 90th year of the
19th century , and the 1st year of the
1890s decade. As of the start of 1890, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January 25 :
Nellie Bly , 1890
January–March
March 4: Forth Bridge opened
April–June
May 31 :
Cleveland Arcade .
June 1 :
Herman Hollerith .
April 2 –
Kashihara Shrine , a landmark spot in
Nara Prefecture ,
Japan , is officially built by
Emperor Mutsuhito (Emperor of Meiji).
[6]
April 14 – At the
First International Conference of American States , in Washington D.C., The Commercial Bureau of the American Republics is founded.
May 1 – A coordinated series of mass rallies and one-day strikes is held throughout many cities and mining towns in Europe and North America, to demand an
eight-hour workday .
[7]
May 2 – President Benjamin Harrison signs the
Oklahoma Organic Act , under which
Oklahoma Territory is organized, a prerequisite for later statehood.
May 12 – The first ever official English
County Championship
cricket match begins in
Bristol ;
Yorkshire beats
Gloucestershire , by eight wickets.
May 20 – Dutch artist
Vincent van Gogh moves to
Auvers-sur-Oise on the edge of Paris, in the care of
Paul Gachet , where he will produce around seventy paintings in as many days.
May 31 – The five-story skylight
Arcade opens in
Cleveland, Ohio .
June 1 – The
United States Census Bureau begins using
Herman Hollerith 's
tabulating machine to tabulate
census returns using
punched card input, a landmark in the
history of computing hardware . Hollerith's company eventually becomes
IBM .
June 16 – Royal Dutch Petroleum, predecessor of
Royal Dutch Shell , the major worldwide
energy production and sales company, is founded in the
Netherlands to develop an oilfield in
Pangkalan Brandan ,
North Sumatra .
[8]
June 20 –
The Picture of Dorian Gray (by
Oscar Wilde ) is published by Philadelphia-based
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine (dated July).
[9]
June 27 – Canadian-born boxer
George Dixon defeats the British
bantamweight champion in London, giving him claim to be the first
black world champion in any sport.
[10]
July 29 :
Vincent van Gogh .
July–September
July 1
July 2 – The
Sherman Antitrust Act and
Sherman Silver Purchase Act become United States law.
July 3 –
Idaho is admitted as the 43rd
U.S. state .
July 10 –
Wyoming is admitted as the 44th
U.S. state .
July 13 – In
Minnesota , storms result in the
Sea Wing disaster on
Lake Pepin , killing 98.
July 26 – In
Buenos Aires , the
Revolution of the Park takes place, forcing President
Juárez Celman 's resignation.
July 27 –
Death of Vincent van Gogh : van Gogh shoots himself, dying two days later.
August 6 – At
Auburn Prison in New York,
William Kemmler becomes the first person to be
executed in the
electric chair .
August 20 –
Treaty of London : Portugal and the United Kingdom define the borders of the Portuguese colonies of
Mozambique and
Angola .
August 23 – The
BOVESPA stock exchange is founded in
São Paulo , Brazil.
August – Kaiser
Wilhelm II and Tsar
Alexander III meet at
Narva .
September 6 –
Dublin
association football club
Bohemian F.C. is founded in the Gate Lodge,
Phoenix Park .
September 12 –
Salisbury, Rhodesia , is founded.
September 19
September 25 — President
Wilford Woodruff of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issues the
1890 Manifesto ending the official practice of polygamy.
October–December
November:
New Scotland Yard opens near the
Big Ben clock tower.
December 29 :
Wounded Knee
October 9 – The first brief flight of
Clément Ader 's steam-powered
fixed-wing aircraft
Ader Éole takes place in
Satory , France. It flies uncontrolled approximately 50 m (160 ft) at a height of 20 cm (7.9 in), the first take-off of a powered airplane solely under its own power.
[13]
October 11 – In
Washington, D.C. , the
Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
October 12 – The
Uddevalla Suffrage Association is founded in Sweden, with a formal founding event on
November 2 a month later.
October 13 – The
Delta Chi fraternity is founded by 11 law students at
Cornell University in
Ithaca, New York .
November 4 – The first deep level London Underground (Tube) Railway, the
City and South London Railway , opens officially.
November 9 – British
Royal Navy torpedo cruiser
HMS Serpent (1887) is shipwrecked off
Camariñas in Spain with the loss of 173 out of her crew of 176.
[14]
November 21 –
Edward King ,
Anglican
bishop of Lincoln , is convicted of using
ritualistic practices .
[15]
November 23 – King
William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir, and his daughter
Princess Wilhelmina becomes Queen, causing the end of the personal union of thrones with
Luxembourg (which requires a male heir) so that
Adolphe, Duke of Nassau becomes
Grand Duke of Luxembourg .
November 29
November –
Scotland Yard , headquarters of the
Metropolitan Police Service , moves to a building on London's
Victoria Embankment , as
New Scotland Yard .
December 15 –
Hunkpapa
Lakota leader
Sitting Bull is killed by police on
Standing Rock Indian Reservation .
December 27 – The British steamship
Shanghai burns in the
East China Sea off the coast of
Anhui Province; 101 lives are lost.
[16]
December 29 –
Wounded Knee Massacre : At
Wounded Knee, South Dakota , a Native American camp, the U.S.
7th Cavalry Regiment tries to disperse the non-violent "Ghost-Dance" which was promised to usher in a new era of power and freedom to Native Americans but is feared as a potential rallying tool for violent rebellion by some in the U.S. government. Shooting begins, and 153
Lakota Sioux and 25 troops are killed; about 150 flee the scene. This is the last tribe to be defeated and confined to a
reservation as well as the beginning of the decline of both the
American Indian Wars and the
American frontier .
University of Denver University Hall, built in 1890
Date unknown
The
folding carton box is invented by
Robert Gair , a
Brooklyn printer who developed production of paper-board boxes in
1879 .
The United States city of
Boise, Idaho , drills the first
geothermal well.
Brown trout are introduced into the upper
Firehole River , in
Yellowstone National Park .
High School Cadets is written by
John Philip Sousa .
William II of Prussia opposes Bismarck's attempt to renew the law outlawing the
Social Democratic Party .
Blackwall Buildings ,
Whitechapel , noted
philanthropic housing, is built in the
East End of London .
English archaeologist
Flinders Petrie excavates at
Tell el-Hesi ,
Palestine (mistakenly identified as
Tel Lachish ), the first scientific excavation of an archaeological site in the
Holy Land , during which he discovers how
tells are formed.
American
geostrategist
Alfred Thayer Mahan publishes his influential book
The Influence of Sea Power upon History , 1660–1783 .
Francis Galton announces a statistical demonstration of the uniqueness and classifiability of individual human
fingerprints .
[17]
Japanese
tractor and
iron pipe
brand ,
Kubota founded in
Osaka , Japan.
[18]
Emerson Electric , an
American
electronics industry giant, is founded in
Missouri .
[19]
Births
January
Kurt Tucholsky
Néstor Guillén
February
March
Vyacheslav Molotov
Nancy Elizabeth Prophet
Eugeniusz Baziak
March 1 –
Theresa Bernstein , Polish-born American artist and writer (d.
2002 )
March 4 –
Norman Bethune , Canadian doctor and humanitarian (d.
1939 )
March 8 –
Eugeniusz Baziak , Polish
Roman Catholic archbishop (d.
1962 )
March 9 (new style) -
Vyacheslav Molotov ,
Soviet politician (d.
1986 )
March 11 –
Vannevar Bush , American engineer, inventor and politician (d.
1960 )
March 19 –
Nancy Elizabeth Prophet , African-American artist known for her sculpture (d.
1960 )
March 20
March 26 –
Aaron S. Merrill , American admiral (d.
1961 )
March 28 –
Paul Whiteman , American bandleader (d.
1967 )
March 31 –
Lawrence Bragg , English physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1971 )
April
May
Clelia Lollini
Ho Chi Minh
June
Stan Laurel
July
Frank Forde
Rose Kennedy
August
H. P. Lovecraft
September
Colonel Sanders
Agatha Christie
October
Stanley Holloway
Groucho Marx
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fritz Lang
Hermann Joseph Muller
October 1
October 2 –
Groucho Marx , American comedian (d.
1977 )
October 3 –
Emilio Portes Gil , Mexican teacher, journalist, lawyer and substitute
President of Mexico , 1928–1930 (d.
1978 )
[21]
October 8
October 9 –
Aimee Semple McPherson , Canadian-American Pentecostal Evangelist (d.
1944 )
October 13 –
Conrad Richter , American novelist and short story writer (d.
1968 )
October 14 –
Dwight D. Eisenhower , US general and 34th
President of the United States (d.
1969 )
October 16
October 17 –
Roy Kilner , English cricketer (d.
1928 )
October 20 –
Sherman Minton , American politician and
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.
1965 )
October 23 –
Abdul Hamid Karami , 16th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d.
1950 )
October 25 –
Floyd Bennett , American aviator and explorer (d.
1928 )
October 29 –
Hans-Valentin Hube , German army general (d.
1944 )
November
Elpidio Quirino
Charles De Gaulle
El Lissitzky
December
December 5
December 6 –
Dion Fortune , British occultist (d.
1946 )
December 8 –
Bohuslav Martinů , Czech composer (d.
1959 )
December 10
December 11 –
Carlos Gardel ,
Argentine tango singer (d.
1935 )
December 17 –
Prince Joachim of Prussia (suicide
1920 )
December 20 –
Jaroslav Heyrovský , Czech chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1967 )
December 21 –
Hermann Joseph Muller , American geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1967 )
December 25 –
Robert Ripley , American collector of odd facts (d.
1949 )
December 26 –
Konstantinos Georgakopoulos , Greek lawyer and professor, 152nd
Prime Minister of Greece (d.
1973 )
December 30 –
Lanoe Hawker , British fighter pilot (d.
1916 )
Date unknown
Deaths
January–March
King
Amadeus I of Spain
Gyula Andrássy
Joseph Merrick
January 2 –
Julián Gayarre , Spanish opera singer (b.
1844 )
January 7 –
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , Empress Consort of
William I, German Emperor (b.
1811 )
January 18 – King
Amadeo I of Spain (b.
1845 )
February 18 –
Gyula Andrássy , Hungarian statesman, 4th
Prime Minister of Hungary (b.
1823 )
February 22
January 23 –
Emily Jane Pfeiffer , Welsh poet and philanthropist (b.
1827 )
March 3 –
Innocenzo da Berzo , Italian
Capuchin friar and blessed (b.
1844 )
March 7 –
Karl Rudolf Friedenthal , Prussian statesman (b.
1827 )
March 9 – Sir
Mangaldas Nathubhoy , Indian politician (b.
1832 )
March 16 –
Princess Zorka of Montenegro (b.
1864 )
March 23 –
Mary Jane Katzmann , Canadian historian (b.
1828 )
March 27 –
Carl Jacob Löwig , German chemist (b.
1803 )
April–June
July–September
Vincent van Gogh
Carlo Collodi
John Boyle O'Reilly
Richard Francis Burton
William III of the Netherlands
Heinrich Schliemann
July 7 –
Henri Nestlé , Swiss confectioner and the founder of Nestlé (b.
1814 )
July 9 –
Clinton B. Fisk , American
philanthropist and
temperance activist (b.
1828 )
July 13
July 15 –
Gottfried Keller , Swiss writer (b.
1819 )
July 25 –
Shaikh Mohamed bin Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa , Ruler of Bahrain (b.
1813 )
July 29 –
Vincent van Gogh , Dutch painter (b.
1853 )
August 6 –
William Kemmler , American murderer, first person executed in the
electric chair (b.
1860 )
August 10 –
John Boyle O'Reilly , Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer (b.
1844 )
August 11 –
John Henry Newman , English Roman Catholic Cardinal (b.
1801 )
August 27 –
Juan Seguín , American soldier and politician (b.
1806 )
October–December
October 4 –
Catherine Booth , Mother of
The Salvation Army (b.
1829 )
October 17 –
Julian Gutowski , Polish politician (b.
1823 )
October 20 –
Richard Francis Burton , English explorer, linguist, soldier (b.
1821 )
October 26 –
Carlo Collodi , Italian writer (
The Adventures of Pinocchio ) (b.
1826 )
November 3 –
Ulrich Ochsenbein ,
member of the Swiss Federal Council (b.
1811 )
November 4 –
Félix du Temple de la Croix , French Army Captain & aviation pioneer (b.
1823 )
November 7 –
Comanche , American horse, survivor of
Custer 's cavalry at the
Battle of the Little Bighorn
November 8 –
César Franck , Belgian composer and organist (b.
1822 )
November 11 –
Marie-Charles David de Mayréna , French adventurer and self-styled King of Sedang (b.
1842 )
December 21 –
Sherman Conant , American soldier and politician (b.
1839 )
November 23 – King
William III of the Netherlands (b.
1817 )
November 24 –
August Belmont , Sr., Prussian-born financier (b.
1816 )
December 15 –
Sitting Bull , Native American chief (b. c.
1831 )
December 21 –
Johanne Luise Heiberg , Danish actress (b.
1812 )
December 23 –
Alphonse Lecointe , French general and politician (b.
1817 )
December 26 –
Heinrich Schliemann , German archaeologist (b.
1822 )
December 31 –
Pancha Carrasco , Costa Rican war heroine (b.
1826 )
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Further reading and year books
1890 Annual Cyclopedia
online ; highly detailed coverage of "Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry" (1891); compilation of facts and primary documents; worldwide coverage.