Explore 896 historical events from 1890–1899.
Antonio Narciso Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta was a Filipino brigadier general and a pharmacist who fought in the Philippine–American War before his assassination on June 5, …
Antonio Luna, Commanding General of the Philippine Army, was assassinated in the midst of the Philippine–American War
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)
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)
John Thomas Young Gilroy was an English artist and illustrator, best known for his advertising posters for Guinness, the Irish stout. He signed many of his works, simply, "Gilroy".
John Gilroy, English artist and illustrator (died 1985)
Charles Emery Rosendahl was a highly decorated vice admiral in the United States Navy, and an advocate of lighter-than-air flight.
Charles E
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)
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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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)
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
The temperance movement in the United States, which sought to curb the consumption of alcohol, had a large influence on American politics and American society in the nineteenth and…
American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroyi
The 1899 New Richmond tornado was an estimated F5 tornado that formed in the early evening of Monday, June 12, 1899, leaving a 45-mile-long (72 km) path of destruction through St. …
New Richmond tornado: The ninth deadliest tornado in U
Fiat Automobiles S.p.A., commonly known as Fiat, is an Italian automobile manufacturer.
Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
NEC Corporation is a Japanese multinational information technology corporation headquartered at the NEC Supertower in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It sells IT and network services, inclu…
NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
Ulises Hilarión Heureaux Leibert nicknamed Lilís, was president of the Dominican Republic from September 1, 1882 to September 1, 1884, from January 6, 1887 to February 27, 1889 and…
Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.
The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 are a series of international treaties and declarations negotiated at two international peace conferences at The Hague in the Netherlands, th…
The First Hague Convention is signed.
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)
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)
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)
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)