Explore 419 historical events from 1890–1899.
Kostas Krystallis was an ethnic Aromanian, Greek author and poet, representative of 19th century Greek pastoral literature. He was born an Ottoman subject in Epirus, but escaped to…
Kostas Krystallis, Greek author and poet (born 1868)
Chaim Aronson was a Lithuanian Jewish inventor and memoirist.
Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian businessman and author (born 1825)
Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was a French composer, violist, violinist, and academic teacher. His most celebrated piece is the Symphonie Espagnole, a five-movement concerto for vi…
Édouard Lalo, French violinist and composer (born 1823)
The Treaty of Shimonoseki , also known as the Treaty of Maguan in China or the Treaty of Bakan in Japan, was signed in Shimonoseki, Japan, on April 17, 1895, between the Empire of…
The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed
Sir Joseph John Thomson was a British physicist. He received the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations …
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Charles Emery Rosendahl was a highly decorated vice admiral in the United States Navy, and an advocate of lighter-than-air flight.
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The Pullman Strike comprised two interrelated strikes in 1894 that shaped national labor policy in the United States during a period of deep economic depression. First came a strik…
Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces …
Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist and playwright (died 1940)
The Greco-Turkish War of 1897 or the Ottoman-Greek War of 1897 was fought between the Kingdom of Greece and the Ottoman Empire. Its immediate cause involved the status of the Ottom…
The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire
William James Wilde was a Welsh professional boxer who competed from 1911 to 1923. He simultaneously held the National Sporting Clubs British flyweight title and the World Flyweigh…
Jimmy Wilde, Welsh boxer (died 1969)
St Andrew's First Aid is a charity based in Scotland. Founded in 1882, St Andrew's Ambulance Association was Scotland's first ambulance service. From 1967, the St. Andrew's Scottis…
The St
The Irish Literary Theatre was a short-lived theatrical project that existed from 1899 to 1901. Its purpose was to establish a national stage for Irish plays performed by Irish per…
The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play
Karl Emil Malmelin was a Finnish farmworker and mass murderer.
Finnish farmworker Karl Emil Malmelin kills seven people with an axe at the Simola croft in the village of Klaukkala
Pearl Hart was a Canadian-born outlaw of the American Old West. She committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies in the United States, and her crime gained notoriety pri…
Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona
Osman Achmatowicz was a Polish chemist of Lipka Tatar descent, who studied alkaloid natural products. His son, Osman Achmatowicz Jr., is credited with the Achmatowicz reaction in 1…
Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist and academic (died 1988)
Aleksander Klumberg was an Estonian decathlete. He represented Estonia in several events at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, and won the bronze medal in the decathlon at the 19…
Aleksander Klumberg, Estonian decathlete and coach (died 1958)
George O'Brien was an American actor, popular during the silent film era and into the sound film era of the 1930s. He is best known today as the lead actor in F. W. Murnau's 1927 A…
George O'Brien, American actor (died 1985)
Cemal Tollu was a Turkish painter. He served in the Turkish War of Independence as a cavalry lieutenant. and witnessed the Fire of Manisa. In 1933 he founded the "D Group" with sev…
Cemal Tollu, Turkish lieutenant and painter (died 1968)
Alan Arnett McLeod, VC was a Canadian soldier, aviator, and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to Briti…
Alan Arnett McLeod, Canadian lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1918)
Ira Randall Thompson was an American composer, particularly noted for his choral works, and educator.
Randall Thompson, American composer and academic (died 1984)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899,…
Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born novelist and critic (died 1977)
Minoru Shirota was a Japanese microbiologist who made pioneering research on gut microbiota and developed the first commercial probiotic. In the 1930, he identified a strain of la…
Minoru Shirota, Japanese physician and microbiologist, invented Yakult (died 1982)
Oscar Zariski was an American mathematician. The Russian-born scientist was one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.
Oscar Zariski, Russian-American mathematician and academic (died 1986)
Oscar Rabin was a Latvian-born English bandleader and musician. He was the musical director of his own big band.
Oscar Rabin, Latvian-English saxophonist and bandleader (died 1958)
Walter Benjamin Lantz was an American cartoonist, animator, producer and director best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker.
Walter Lantz, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and actor (died 1994)
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life. Music critic Ralph J. Gle…
Duke Ellington, American pianist, composer and bandleader (died 1974)
Bertil Gotthard Ohlin was a Swedish economist and politician. He was a professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1929 to 1965. He was also leader of the Peop…
Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979)
Mary Petty was an illustrator of books and magazines best remembered for a series of covers published by The New Yorker that feature a family she invented and named, "Peabody", alo…
Mary Petty, American illustrator (died 1976)
Freeman Fisher "Gozzie" Gosden was an American radio comedian, actor and pioneer in the development of the situation comedy form. He is best known for his work in the Amos 'n' Andy…
Freeman Gosden, American actor and screenwriter (died 1982)
Alfred Horace "Gerry" Gerrard RBS was an English modernist sculptor. He was head of the sculpture department at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1925 and professor of sculpture th…
Alfred Gerrard, English sculptor and academic (died 1998)
Arthur Quirk Bryan was an American actor and radio personality. He is best remembered for his longtime recurring role as well-spoken, wisecracking Dr. Gamble on the radio comedy Fi…
Arthur Q
Friedrich August von Hayek was an Austrian economist and philosopher. He is known for his contributions to political economy, political philosophy and intellectual history. Hayek s…
Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1992)
Jacques Heim was a French fashion designer and costume designer for theater and film, and was a manufacturer of women's furs. From 1930 to his death in 1967, he ran the fashion hou…
Jacques Heim, French fashion designer (died 1967)
Fred Astaire was an American dancer, actor, singer, musician, choreographer, and presenter, whose career in stage, film, and television spanned 76 years. He is widely regarded as t…
Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, and dancer (died 1987)