Explore 897 historical events from 1890–1899.
Ingeborg Spangsfeldt was a Danish film actress whose career began in the early 1910s until her retirement upon getting married in 1924.
Ingeborg Spangsfeldt, Danish actress (died 1968)
Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen was an American vaudevillian, singer, actress, and comedian who became famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns, her strai…
Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (died 1964)
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig was a German physician and physiologist. His work as both a researcher and teacher had a major influence on the understanding, methods and apparatus u…
Carl Ludwig, German physician and physiologist (born 1815)
Graf Eric Stanislaus Stenbock was a Baltic Swedish poet and writer of macabre fantastic fiction.
Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (born 1860)
José Julián Martí Pérez was a Cuban nationalist, poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, professor, and publisher, who is considered a Cuban national hero because of h…
José Martí, Cuban journalist, poet, and philosopher (born 1853)
Franz von Suppé, born Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo de Suppé was an Austrian composer of light operas and other theatre music. He came from the Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austro-Hungar…
Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (born 1819)
Franz Ernst Neumann was a German mineralogist and physicist. He devised the first formulas to calculate inductance. He also formulated Neumann's law for molecular heat. In electrom…
Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician (born 1798)
Thomas Henry Huxley was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialised in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin…
Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (born 1825)
Johann Josef Loschmidt, better known as Josef Loschmidt, was an Austrian scientist who performed ground-breaking work in chemistry, physics, and crystal forms.
Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian chemist and physicist (born 1821)
Edward Beecher was an American theologian, the son of Lyman Beecher and the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher.
Edward Beecher, American minister and theologian (born 1803)
Floriano Vieira Peixoto was a Brazilian military officer and politician. A veteran of the Paraguayan War and several other conflicts in Brazil, he served as the second president of…
Floriano Peixoto, Brazilian general and politician, 2nd President of Brazil (born 1839)
Ahmed Cevdet Pasha was an Ottoman scholar, intellectual, bureaucrat, administrator, and historian who was a prominent figure in the Tanzimat reforms of the Ottoman Empire. He was t…
Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman sociologist, historian, and jurist (born 1822)
Samuel Jones Tilden was an American politician who served as the 25th governor of New York and was the Democratic nominee in the disputed 1876 United States presidential election.
Backed by Samuel J
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular a…
Oscar Wilde was sentenced by Alfred Wills to two years of hard labor for gross indecency
The United States Court of Private Land Claims (1891–1904) was an ad-hoc court created to decide land claims guaranteed by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in the territories of N…
The U
The Krag–Jørgensen is a repeating bolt-action rifle designed by the Norwegians Ole Herman Johannes Krag and Erik Jørgensen in the late 19th century. It was adopted as a standard ar…
Norway formally adopts the Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would rem
Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey. They marched on Washington, D.C., in 1894, the second year of a …
Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D
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
The Manchester Ship Canal is a 36-mile-long (58 km) inland waterway in the North West of England linking Manchester to the Irish Sea. Starting at the Mersey Estuary at Eastham, nea…
The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer S
On 24 June 1894, French President Sadi Carnot was assassinated by Italian anarchist Sante Geronimo Caserio in Lyon, France. A part of the Ère des attentats anarchist terrorist camp…
Assassination of the French President, Sadi Carnot by Sante Caserio during the Ère des attentats (1892–1894)
Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the first Monday of September to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the works and contributions o…
Labor Day becomes an official US holiday
Paris–Rouen was a pioneering city-to-city motoring competition in 1894 which is sometimes described as the world's first competitive motor race.
The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte…
The governor of Colorado is the head of government of the U.S. state of Colorado. The governor is the head of the executive branch of Colorado's state government and is charged wit…
Governor Davis H
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is the international, non-governmental, sports governing body of the modern Olympic Games. Founded in 1894 by Pierre de Coubertin and Deme…
The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin