Explore 1335 historical events from 1890–1899.
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)
Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1864–1872).
Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss lawyer and politician (born 1811)
Alfredo Catalani was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas Loreley (1890) and La Wally (1892). La Wally was composed to a libretto by Luigi Illica, and…
Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (born 1854)
Freiherr Alexander Wassilko von Serecki was an Austro-Hungarian ethnic Romanian statesman, Landeshauptmann of the Duchy of Bukovina and member of the Herrenhaus, the Upper House of…
Alexander Wassilko von Serecki, Austrian lawyer and politician (born 1827)
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)
Jean-Martin Charcot was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. He worked on groundbreaking work about hypnosis and hysteria, in particular with his hysteria pa…
Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist and academic (born 1825)
James Harrison was a Scottish Australian newspaper printer, journalist, politician, and pioneer in the field of mechanical refrigeration.
James Harrison, Scottish-Australian engineer, journalist, and politician (born 1816)
Hamilton Fish was an American statesman who served as the sixteenth governor of New York from 1849 to 1850, a United States senator from New York from 1851 to 1857, and the 26th U.…
Hamilton Fish, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of State (born 1808)
Friedrich Traugott Kützing was a German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist.
Friedrich Traugott Kützing, German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist (born 1807)
Thomas Hawksley was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with early water supply and coal gas engineering projects. Hawksley was, with John Freder…
Thomas Hawksley, English engineer (born 1807)
Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt, was a politician and Father of Confederation, the union of British North American colonies into Canada.
Alexander Tilloch Galt, English-Canadian politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Finance (born 1817)
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…
Swami Vivekananda, born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. Vivekananda w…
Swami Vivekananda (pictured) gave a speech introducing Hinduism on the opening day of the first Parliament of the…
Women's suffrage was an important political issue in the late-nineteenth-century New Zealand. In early colonial New Zealand, as in other European societies, women were excluded fro…
New Zealand became the first country to introduce universal suffrage following the women's suffrage movement led by…
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 …
Liverpool F
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.
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)
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
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman known for his work on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, electric power distribution and early motion pictures…
Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.