1890
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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 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 1 – The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony in the Horn of Africa .January 2 – Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer in the White House .[ 1] January 11 – 1890 British Ultimatum : The United Kingdom demands Portugal withdraw its forces from the land between the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique and Angola (most of present-day Zimbabwe and Zambia ).January 15 – Ballet The Sleeping Beauty Tchaikovsky , is premiered at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg , Russia.January 25
February 5 – The worldwide insurance and financial service brand Allianz is founded in Berlin , Germany.[ 2] February 18 – The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) is founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony .February 24 – Chicago is selected to host the Columbian Exposition .March 3 – The first American football game in Ohio State University history is played in Delaware, Ohio , against Ohio Wesleyan March 4 – The Forth Bridge , the longest bridge in Great Britain , on the Firth of Forth in Scotland, is opened to rail traffic.March 8 – North Dakota State University is founded in Fargo .March 17 – The first railway in Transvaal , the Randtram, opens between Boksburg and Braamfontein in Johannesburg .[ 3] March 20 – Kaiser Wilhelm II forces Otto von Bismarck to resign as Chancellor of Germany .March 27
March 28 – Washington State University is founded in Pullman .
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).[ 4] 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 .[ 5] 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
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 .[ 6] June 20 – The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde ) is published by Philadelphia-based Lippincott's Monthly Magazine [ 7] 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.[ 8] July 29 : Vincent van Gogh .
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 disasterLake 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 – The University of North Texas is founded, as the Texas Normal College and Teacher Training Institute.[ 10] 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 1 – The Yosemite National Park is established in California .October 9 – The first brief flight of Clément Ader 's steam-powered fixed-wing aircraft Ader Éole 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.[ 11] 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 21 – Edward King , Anglican bishop of Lincoln , is convicted of using ritualistic practices .[ 12] 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 24 – The Oklahoma territorial legislature establishes three institutions of higher learning University of Oklahoma , Oklahoma State University , and University of Central Oklahoma .December 29 – Wounded Knee Massacre : At Wounded Knee, South Dakota , a Lakota 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 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 .[ 13] Japanese tractor and iron pipe brand , Kubota founded in Osaka , Japan.[ 14] Emerson Electric , an American electronics industry giant, is founded in Missouri .[ 15]
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 )[ 17] 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
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 )
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 18 – August von Bulmerincq , Baltic German legal scholar (b. 1822 )August 27 – Juan Seguín , American soldier and politician (b. 1806 )
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 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 )
References
^ "This Day in History: 1890" . History.com . A&E Television Networks. Archived from the original on February 9, 2010. Retrieved October 27, 2009 .^ Werner Meyer-Larsen (2000). Germany, Inc: the new German juggernaut and its challenge to world business ISBN 9780471353577 . Retrieved July 16, 2013 . ^ The South African Railways – Historical Survey . Editor George Hart, Publisher Bill Hart, Sponsored by Dorbyl Ltd., Published c. 1978.^ "Asuka Area, Nara" . Iwate University . Retrieved January 1, 2019 .^ Hermann, Christoph: Capitalism and the Political Economy of Work Time , p. 113
^ Merrillees, Scott (2015). Jakarta: Portraits of a Capital 1950–1980 ISBN 9786028397308 ^ Page, Norman (1991). An Oscar Wilde Chronology . Macmillan. p. 40. ^ "Dixon, George (Little Chocolate)" . Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Retrieved January 23, 2012 .^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 317–318. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 ^ "History of UNT | 125th Anniversary" . 125.unt.edu . Retrieved April 5, 2017 .^ Crouch, Tom D. "Clément Ader" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved March 3, 2011 . ^ "Read And Others V. The Lord Bishop Of Lincoln: Court Of The Archbishop Of Canterbury, Lambeth Palace, Nov. 21". The Times ^ Galton, Francis (1891). "The Patterns in Thumb and Finger Marks – On Their Arrangement into Naturally Distinct Classes, the Permanence of the Papillary Ridges that Make Them, and the Resemblance of Their Classes to Ordinary Genera" . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 182 : 1–23. doi :10.1098/rstb.1891.0001 JSTOR 91733 . ^ "1890 › 1926" . Kubota Virtual Museum . Retrieved March 16, 2023 .^ "Emerson Company History" . emerson.com . Emerson Electric. Retrieved March 4, 2021 .^ "Agatha Christie | Britannica" . www.britannica.com . Retrieved February 18, 2022 .^ "Emilio Portes Gil" (in Spanish). Busca Biografias. Retrieved May 31, 2019 .^ "Biography – CHAUVEAU, PIERRE-JOSEPH-OLIVIER – Volume XI (1881-1890) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography" .^ "Brylinski Pawel" . Astro-Databank . June 27, 2016. Retrieved November 13, 2021 .
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.
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