Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
Lotte Lenya was an Austrian-American singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States. In the German-speaking and classical music world, she is best remembered for her…
Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (died 1981)
Karl Anton or Karel Anton was a Bohemian-born German film director, screenwriter, and film producer.
Karl Anton, German director, screenwriter and producer (died 1979)
Brigadier Alan Robert Barker was a senior British Indian Army officer of the Second World War.
Alan Barker, English soldier (died 1984)
William Harold Terry was an American professional baseball first baseman and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Giants from 1923 to 1936 and managed…
Bill Terry, American baseball player and manager (died 1989)
Gustave Moreau was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence". He was an influential forerunne…
Gustave Moreau, French painter and academic (born 1826)
Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, born in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, was a French-Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 7th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from 1892 to 1898.
Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (born 1840)
Dewitt Clinton Senter was an American politician who served as the 18th governor of Tennessee from 1869 to 1871. He had previously served in the Tennessee House of Representatives …
Dewitt Clinton Senter, American politician, 18th Governor of Tennessee (born 1830)
William Ewart Gladstone was a British statesman who served four times as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He began in politics as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for …
William Ewart Gladstone, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1809)
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet was an English painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter.
Edward Burne-Jones, English soldier and painter (born 1833)
Jean-Baptiste Salpointe was a French-born prelate who serve as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in New Mexico in the United States from 1885 to 1894.
Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, French-American archbishop (born 1825)
Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg, was a German statesman and diplomat who oversaw the unification of Germany and served as …
Otto von Bismarck, German lawyer and politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (born 1815)
Eugène Louis Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and alo…
Eugène Boudin, French painter (born 1824)
Wilford Woodruff Sr. was an American religious leader who served as the fourth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1889 until his death. He ended the …
Wilford Woodruff, American religious leader, 4th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born…
Sarah Emma Edmonds was a British North America-born woman who claimed to have served as a man with the Union Army as a nurse and spy during the American Civil War. Although recogni…
Sarah Emma Edmonds, Canadian-American nurse, soldier, and spy (born 1841)
Étienne Mallarmé, known professionally as Stéphane Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French Symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revol…
Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet and critic (born 1842)
Elisabeth, nicknamed Sisi, was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from her marriage to Franz Joseph I on 24 April 1854 until her assassination in 1898.
Empress Elisabeth of Austria (born 1837)
Nikoline Anette Harbitz was a Norwegian author.
Nikoline Harbitz, Norwegian author (born 1841)
William Seward Burroughs I was an American inventor born in Rochester, New York, most prominently known as the inventor of a mechanical calculator.
William Seward Burroughs I, American businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation (born 1857)
Thomas Joseph Byrnes was an Australian politician and barrister. He was Premier of Queensland from April 1898 until his death in September of the same year, having previously serve…
Thomas Joseph Byrnes, Australian politician, 12th Premier of Queensland (born 1860)
Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat from Wilmington, Delaware. A Democrat, he served three terms as the United States senator from Delaware an…
Thomas F. Bayard, American lawyer, politician and diplomat (born 1828)
Ramón Emeterio Betances y Alacán was a Puerto Rican independence leader, abolitionist and medical doctor. He led the nation's independence movement and was the primary instigator o…
Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican surgeon and politician (born 1827)
Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet. He has been called “the greatest German realist novelist” and “clearly the greatest German novelist before Thomas Mann.” He publishe…
Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (born 1819)
Calvin Fairbank was an American abolitionist and Methodist minister from New York state who was twice convicted in Kentucky of aiding the escape of slaves, and served a total of 19…
Calvin Fairbank, American minister and activist (born 1816)
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was a French painter known for his mural painting, who came to be known as "the painter for France". He became the co-founder and president of the Société…
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter and illustrator (born 1824)