Explore 1335 historical events from 1890–1899.
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…
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
Baron Kitasato Shibasaburō was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in Hong Kong during an outb…
Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
The Battle of the Yalu River was the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War, and took place on 17 September 1894, the day after the Japanese victory at the land Ba…
Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
Elizabeth Eloise Kirkpatrick Dilling was an American writer and political activist. In 1934, she published The Red Network—A Who's Who and Handbook of Radicalism for Patriots, whic…
Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (died 1966)
Frank Borzage was an American film director and actor. He was the first person to win the Academy Award for Best Director for his film 7th Heaven (1927) at the 1st Academy Awards.
Frank Borzage, American actor and director (died 1962)
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
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
The Republic of Hawaii was a short-lived one-party state in Hawaiʻi between July 4, 1894, when the Provisional Government of Hawaii had ended, and August 12, 1898, when it became a…
The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
The First Sino-Japanese War, or the First China–Japan War, was a conflict between the Qing dynasty of China and the Empire of Japan primarily for influence over Korea. In China it …
The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was a German politician, convicted war criminal, and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Germany. Appointed Deputy to the Führer in 1933, Hess held tha…
Rudolf Hess, German politician and Deputy Führer in Nazi regime until 1941 (died 1987)
George Brown Petty IV was an American pin-up artist. His pin-up art appeared primarily in Esquire and Fawcett Publications's True but was also in calendars marketed by Esquire, Tru…
George Petty, American painter and illustrator (died 1975)
Nicolas Slonimsky, born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy, was a Russian-American musicologist, conductor, pianist, lexicographer, and composer. Best known for his writing and musical…
Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1995)
The Empire of Japan, also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the period of Japanese history spanning 79 years, starting with the Meiji Restoration on 3 January 186…
The Empire of Japan and Qing China declare war on each other after a week of fighting over Korea, formally…
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's ind…
Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
The Great Hinckley Fire was a conflagration in the pine forests of the U.S. state of Minnesota that ignited on September 1, 1894, which burned an area of at least 200,000 acres, in…
Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
The First Sino-Japanese War was a conflict between the Qing dynasty of China and the Empire of Japan primarily for influence over Korea. In China it is commonly known as the Jiawu …
First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats the Qing dynasty in the Battle of Pyongyang, causing the Qing army to withdraw…
Marietta Blau was an Austrian physicist of the 20th century who pioneered developments of photographic nuclear emulsions to image and accurately measure high-energy nuclear particl…
Marietta Blau, Austrian physicist and academic (died 1970)
Norma Marie Talmadge was an American actress and film producer of the silent era. A major box-office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when…
Norma Talmadge, American actress of the silent era (died 1957)
Joseph Henry Woodger was a British theoretical biologist and philosopher of biology whose attempts to make biological sciences more rigorous and empirical was significantly influen…
Joseph Henry Woodger, English biologist, philosopher, and academic (died 1981)
Benjamin Graham was an English-American financial analyst, economist, accountant, investor and professor. He is widely known as the "father of value investing", and wrote two of th…
Benjamin Graham, British-American economist, professor, and investor (died 1976)
Martha Graham was an American modern dancer, teacher and choreographer responsible for creating the Graham technique.
Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (died 1991)