Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
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…
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: Battle of Jiuliancheng: Under the command of General Yamagata Aritomo, the Imperial Japanese…
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)
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)
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)
Martha Graham was an American modern dancer, teacher and choreographer responsible for creating the Graham technique.
Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (died 1991)
Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a Russian and American film composer and conductor. Classically trained in Saint Petersburg before the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to Berlin and …
Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer and conductor (died 1979)
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson was the second president of Iceland; he served from 1952 to 1968. He also served as the prime minister of Iceland from 3 June 1932 to 28 July 1934 for the Progres…
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Icelandic politician, 2nd President of Iceland (died 1972)
Frederic Seymour Murray, known as Fred Murray or Feg Murray, was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 110 meter hurdles. He won a bronze medal in the 1920 Summer Olympics…
Feg Murray, American hurdler and cartoonist (died 1973)
Walter M. Yust was an American journalist and writer. Yust was the American editor-in-chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica from 1938 to 1960.
Walter Yust, American journalist and writer (died 1960)
Jagadguru Shri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Shankaracharya Mahaswamigal also known as the Sage of Kanchi or Mahaperiyava was the 68th Jagadguru Shankaracharya of the Moolamnaya Sar…
Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian guru and scholar (died 1994)
Friedrich Pollock was a German social scientist and philosopher. He was one of the founders of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, and a member of the Frankfurt…
Friedrich Pollock, German sociologist and philosopher (died 1970)
Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the…
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author (died 1961)
Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the characters he created…
Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter (died 1961)
Beatrice Gladys Lillie, Lady Peel was a Canadian-born British actress, singer and comedy performer.
Beatrice Lillie, Canadian-English actress, singer and writer (died 1989)
Josef von Sternberg was an Austrian-American filmmaker whose career successfully spanned the transition from the silent to the sound era, during which he worked with most of the ma…
Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1969)
Hubertus Johannes "Huib" van Mook was a Dutch administrator in the East Indies. During the Indonesian National Revolution, he served as the lieutenant governor-general of the Dutch…
Hubertus van Mook, Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (died 1965)
John Florence Sullivan, known professionally as Fred Allen, was an American comedian. His absurdist, topically pointed radio program The Fred Allen Show (1932–1949) made him one of…
Fred Allen, American comedian, radio host, game show panelist, and author (died 1956)
Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, was a Canadian-born British newspaper proprietor who became one of the moguls of Fleet Street in London.
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian-English publisher and academic (died 1976)