Explore 897 historical events from 1890–1899.
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)
Marcelle Germaine Tailleferre was a French composer and the only female member of the group of composers known as Les Six.
Germaine Tailleferre, French composer and educator (died 1983)
Frederick William Dixon was an English motorcycle racer and racing car driver. The designer of the motorcycle and banking sidecar system, he was also one of the few motorsport comp…
Freddie Dixon, English motorcycle racer and racing driver (died 1956)
Dr. Vernon Johns was an American minister based in the South and a pioneer in the civil rights movement. He is best known as the pastor (1947–52) of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Churc…
Vernon Johns, African-American minister and activist (died 1965)
Maud Hart Lovelace was an American writer best known for the Betsy-Tacy series.
Maud Hart Lovelace, American author (died 1980)
Rittmeister Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, known in English as Baron von Richthofen or the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the German Air Force during World W…
Manfred von Richthofen, German captain and pilot (died 1918)
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
The Chicago "L" is the rapid transit system serving the city of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs in the U.S. state of Illinois. Operated by the Chicago Transit Authority…
The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation
Homer Adolph Plessy was an American shoemaker and activist who was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson. He staged an act of civil disobedie…
Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court
The Limelight Department was one of the world's first film studios, beginning in 1898, operated by The Salvation Army in Melbourne, Australia. The Limelight Department produced eva…
The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia
The Homestead strike, also known as the Homestead steel strike, Homestead massacre, or Battle of Homestead, was an industrial lockout and strike that occurred in the United States,…
The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sir George Paget Thomson was a British experimental physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with Clinton Davisson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction …
George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)
Jacob Viner was a Canadian economist and is considered with Frank Knight and Henry Simons to be one of the "inspiring" mentors of the early Chicago school of economics in the 1930s…
Jacob Viner, Canadian-American economist and academic (died 1970)
Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod, CBE, FBA was an English archaeologist who specialised in the Palaeolithic period. She held the position of Disney Professor of Archaeology at the Un…
Dorothy Garrod, British archaeologist (died 1968)
Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main islands, two smaller, inha…
Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a leap year…
Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. A strike usually ta…
Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the…
The Katipunan, officially known as the Kataas-taasang, Kagalang-galangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan and abbreviated as the KKK, was a revolutionary organization founded in 189…
The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
Dadabhai Naoroji was an Indian political leader, merchant, scholar, and writer who played a role in both Indian and British public life. He was among the founding members of the In…
Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
Archibald MacLeish was an American poet and writer, who was associated with the modernist school of poetry. MacLeish studied English at Yale University and law at Harvard Universit…
Archibald MacLeish, American poet, playwright, and lawyer (died 1982)
Adriaan Pelt was a Dutch journalist, international civil servant and diplomat, most famous for drafting the post war constitution of Libya.
Adriaan Pelt, Dutch journalist and diplomat (died 1981)
Zita of Bourbon-Parma was the last Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, in addition to other titles. She ascended to these titles when her husband, Charles I, became the last m…
Zita of Bourbon-Parma, last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (died 1989)
Fritz Kortner was an Austrian stage and film actor and theatre director.
Fritz Kortner, Austrian-German actor and director (died 1970)
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)