Explore 897 historical events from 1890–1899.
Jesse Joseph Haines, nicknamed "Pop", was an American professional baseball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). After a lengthy …
Jesse Haines, American baseball player and coach (died 1978)
Karl Augustus Menninger was an American psychiatrist, author, and activist. He was a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Me…
Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author (died 1990)
Ugo Agostoni was an Italian professional road bicycle racer. Agostoni was professional from 1911 to 1924 during which time he won the Giro dell'Emilia, and a stage in the 1920 Giro…
Ugo Agostoni, Italian cyclist (died 1941)
Rued Langgaard was a late-Romantic Danish composer and organist. His then-unconventional music was at odds with that of his Danish contemporaries but was recognized 16 years after …
Rued Langgaard, Danish organist and composer (died 1952)
Hans Fallada was a German writer of the first half of the 20th century. Some of his better known novels include Little Man, What Now? (1932) and Every Man Dies Alone (1947). His wo…
Hans Fallada, German author (died 1947)
George Grosz was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objec…
George Grosz, German painter and illustrator (died 1959)
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)
Amasa Leland Stanford was an American attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and Republican Party politician from Watervliet, New York. He served as the eighth governor of Califo…
Leland Stanford, American businessman and politician, 8th Governor of California (born 1824)
Sir William Fox was a New Zealand politician who was the second premier of New Zealand in 1856, from 1861 to 1862, from 1869 to 1872, and in 1873. Serving while New Zealand was sti…
William Fox, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1812)
Sir Theophilus Shepstone was a British South African statesman who was responsible for the annexation of the Transvaal to Britain in 1877.
Theophilus Shepstone, English-South African politician (born 1817)
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story and associated with the naturalist literary school of thought, depic…
Guy de Maupassant, French short story writer, novelist, and poet (born 1850)
Frederick Avery Johnson was an American politician and banker who served a U.S. Representative from New York from 1883 to 1887. He was a member of the Republican Party and a reside…
Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (born 1833)
Tasunka Kokipapi was an Oglala Lakota leader known for his participation in Red Cloud's War, as a negotiator for the Sioux Nation after the Wounded Knee Massacre, and for serving o…
They Even Fear His Horses, American tribal chief (born 1836)
The Corinth Canal is a canal in Greece that connects the Gulf of Corinth in the Ionian Sea with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. Completed in 1893, it cuts through the narrow Is…
The Corinth Canal was formally opened, bisecting the narrow Isthmus of Corinth in Greece to connect the Ionian Sea's…
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 …
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St. John's is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is located on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfound…
St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
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)
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)