Explore 896 historical events from 1890–1899.
August Wilhelm von Hofmann was a German chemist who made considerable contributions to organic chemistry. His research on aniline helped lay the basis of the aniline-dye industry, …
August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist and academic (born 1818)
Mary Hannah Gray Clarke was an American author, correspondent, and poet from Rhode Island. She wrote extensively for magazines and for the public press, and was also the author of …
Mary Hannah Gray Clarke, American author, correspondent, and poet (born 1835)
Thomas Cook was the founder of the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son. He was born into a poor family in Derbyshire and left school at the age of ten to start work as a gardener's boy…
Thomas Cook, English travel agent, founded the Thomas Cook Group (born 1808)
John Muir, also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist…
Scottish-American preservationist John Muir (pictured) founded the environmental organization Sierra Club in California
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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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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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, a mixed-race man from New Orleans, was arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of
The Chilean Civil War of 1891, or the Second Chilean Civil War or Revolution of 1891, was a civil war in Chile fought between forces supporting Congress and forces supporting the P…
Chilean Civil War: The ironclad Blanco Encalada is sunk at Caldera Bay by torpedo boats
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue at 881 Seventh Avenue, between 56th and 57th Streets, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Designed by architect William Burnet Tuthill and built b…
The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with
Pope Leo XIII was head of the Catholic Church from 1878 until his death in 1903. He had the fourth-longest reign of any pope, behind those of St. Peter, Pius IX, and John Paul II.
Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catho
The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century.
History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope
Dorothy Pulis Lathrop was an American writer and illustrator of children's books.
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George Adamski was a Polish-American author who became widely known in ufology circles, and to some degree in popular culture, after he displayed numerous photographs in the 1940s …
George Adamski, Polish-American ufologist and author (died 1965)
The 1891 International Electrotechnical Exhibition was held between 16 May and 19 October on the disused site of the three former Westbahnhöfe in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The ex…
The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opened in Frankfurt, Germany, featuring the world's first long-distance tr
The 1891 International Electrotechnical Exhibition was held between 16 May and 19 October on the disused site of the three former Westbahnhöfe in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The ex…
The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, featuring the world's first long-distance tra
Tahiti is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France. It is a tropical island located in the central pa…
France annexes Tahiti.
Françoise Rosay was a French opera singer, diseuse, and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure in French cinema. She went on to app…
Françoise Rosay, French actress (died 1974)
David James Bancroft was an American professional baseball player and manager. A shortstop, he played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants,…
Dave Bancroft, American baseball player and manager (died 1972)
Laura Gilpin was an American photographer.
Laura Gilpin, American photographer (died 1979)
Vittorio Jano was an Italian automobile designer of Hungarian descent, active in European racing car engine design from the 1920s through 1960s.
Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (died 1965)
Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS was a British geophysicist who made significant contributions to mathematics and statistics. His book, Theory of Probability, which was first published in …
Harold Jeffreys, English mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (died 1989)
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists, controversially accused of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a payma…
Nicola Sacco, Italian-American anarchist (died 1927)
Edward Wilfred Taylor was a British manufacturer of optical instruments.
Edward Wilfred Taylor, British businessman (died 1980)
Tadeusz Peiper was a Polish poet, art critic, theoretician of literature and one of the precursors of the avant-garde movement in Polish poetry. Born to a Jewish family, Peiper con…
Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet and critic (died 1969)