Explore 419 historical events from 1890–1899.
William Moulton Marston, also known by the pen name Charles Moulton, was an American psychologist who, with his wife Elizabeth Holloway, invented an early prototype of the polygrap…
William Moulton Marston, American psychologist and author (died 1947)
Tonita Peña born as Quah Ah and also known as Tonita Vigil Peña and María Antonia Tonita Peña, was a renowned Pueblo artist, specializing in pen and ink on paper embellished with w…
Tonita Peña, San Ildefonso Pueblo (Native American) artist (died 1949)
Louis Jacques Marie Collin du Bocage, better known by the pen name Louis Verneuil, was a French playwright, screenwriter, and actor.
Louis Verneuil, French actor and playwright (died 1952)
Arthur William Carr was an English cricketer. He played for the Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and the English cricket team, captaining both sides.
Arthur Carr, English cricketer (died 1963)
Sir Giles Tatlock Chippindall was a senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of Supply and Shipping between 1945 and 1946 and Director-General of the Po…
Giles Chippindall, Australian public servant (died 1969)
Ernest Van "Pop" Stoneman was an American musician, ranked among the prominent recording artists of country music's first commercial decade.
Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, American country musician (died 1968)
José Nepomuceno y Zialcita was a Filipino filmmaker. A founding father of Philippine cinema, he is widely known for pioneering film directing and producing locally until the Second…
José Nepomuceno, Filipino filmmaker, founder of Philippine cinema (died 1959)
Frederick McKinley Jones was an American inventor, entrepreneur, engineer, winner of the National Medal of Technology, and an inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He in…
Frederick McKinley Jones, American inventor and entrepreneur (died 1961)
H. Bonciu, or Horia Bonciu, was a Romanian novelist, poet, journalist and translator, noted especially as an atypical figure on his country's avant-garde scene. His work, comprisin…
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Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens was an English conductor and composer.
Eugene Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer (died 1962)
Frederick Schiller Faust was an American writer known primarily for his Western stories using the pseudonym Max Brand. As Max Brand, he also created the popular fictional character…
Max Brand, American journalist and author (died 1944)
Mary Eva Comerford was an Irish republican from County Wexford. As a member of Cumann na mBan she witnessed the events of 1916 to 1923 and took an active part in the Irish War of I…
Maire Comerford, Irish Republican (died 1982)
Martin Georg Emil Körber was a Baltic German pastor, composer, writer and choir leader.
Martin Körber, Estonian-German pastor, composer, and conductor (born 1817)
Chaim Aronson was a Lithuanian Jewish inventor and memoirist.
Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian businessman and author (born 1825)
John Ballance was a New Zealand politician who served as the 14th premier of New Zealand from January 1891 until his death in April 1893. He governed as the leader of New Zealand's…
John Ballance, Irish-born New Zealand journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1839)
José Manuel del Refugio González Flores was a Mexican general and liberal politician who served as the 35th President of Mexico from 1880 to 1884.
Manuel González Flores, Mexican general and president, 1880–1884 (born 1833)
Ernst Eduard Kummer was a German mathematician. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics; afterwards, he taught for 10 years in a gymnasium…
Ernst Kummer, German mathematician and academic (born 1810)
Anton Ritter von Schmerling was an Austrian statesman.
Anton von Schmerling, Austrian politician (born 1805)
Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded …
Liverpool F
Dora Rudolfine Richter was a German trans woman and the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female gender-affirming surgery. She was one of a number of transgender peopl…
Dora Richter, German transgender woman and the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female gender-affirming su
Howard Mumford Jones was an American intellectual historian, literary critic, journalist, poet, and professor of English at the University of Michigan and later at Harvard Universi…
Howard Mumford Jones, American author, critic, and academic (died 1980)
Eugène Jules Houdry was a mechanical engineer who graduated from École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers in 1911.
Eugene Houdry, French-American mechanical engineer and inventor (died 1962)
The Véry bombing was a bomb attack carried out on 25 April 1892 in Paris by the anarchist militants Théodule Meunier, Jean‑Pierre François and Fernand Bricout against the restauran…
Véry bombing during the Ère des attentats (1892–1894)
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the fourth-most populous city in California and the 17th-most populous in the United States, with a population of…
In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club