Explore 896 historical events from 1890–1899.
Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig Büchner was a German philosopher, physiologist and physician who became one of the exponents of 19th-century scientific materialism.
Ludwig Büchner, German physiologist and physician (born 1824)
Rosa Bonheur was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also made sculptures in a realist style. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, fir…
Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor (born 1822)
Stefanos Koumanoudis was a Greek archaeologist, teacher and writer of the 19th century.
Stefanos Koumanoudis, Greek archaeologist, teacher and writer (born 1818)
Johann Baptist Strauss II, also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas, as well as a v…
Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer and educator (born 1825)
Antonio Narciso Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta was a Filipino brigadier general and a pharmacist who fought in the Philippine–American War before his assassination on June 5, …
Antonio Luna, Filipino general (born 1866)
Mary of the Divine Heart, born Maria Droste zu Vischering, was a German noblewoman and religious sister of the Catholic Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd. Sh…
Mary of the Divine Heart, German nun and saint (born 1863)
Amédée-Ernest Chausson was a French Romantic composer.
Ernest Chausson, French composer (born 1855)
Horatio Alger Jr. was an American author who wrote young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to middle-class security and comfort through go…
Horatio Alger, American novelist and journalist (born 1832)
Robert Green Ingersoll, nicknamed "the Great Agnostic", was an American lawyer, writer, and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism.
Robert G. Ingersoll, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (born 1833)
Ulises Hilarión Heureaux Leibert nicknamed Lilís, was president of the Dominican Republic from September 1, 1882 to September 1, 1884, from January 6, 1887 to February 27, 1889 and…
Ulises Heureaux, 22nd, 26th, and 27th President of the Dominican Republic (born 1845)
Pearl Hart was a Canadian-born outlaw of the American Old West. She committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies in the United States, and her crime gained notoriety pri…
Pearl Hart, one of the few female outlaws of the American Old West, committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robber
Antonio Narciso Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta was a Filipino brigadier general and a pharmacist who fought in the Philippine–American War before his assassination on June 5, …
Antonio Luna, Commanding General of the Philippine Army, was assassinated in the midst of the Philippine–American War
Arthur Edward Jeune Collins was an English cricketer and soldier. He held, for 116 years, the record of highest score in cricket: as a 13-year-old schoolboy, he scored 628 not out …
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A newspaper hawker, newsboy or newsie is a street vendor of newspapers without a fixed newsstand. Related jobs include paperboys, delivering newspapers to subscribers, and news but…
Newsboys from Long Island City turned over a distribution wagon for the New York Journal, marking the start of the…
The 1899 Carrabelle hurricane caused significant damage in the Dominican Republic and the Florida Panhandle of the United States. The second tropical cyclone and second hurricane o…
A Category 1 hurricane (map pictured) made landfall in Azua Province, Dominican Republic, and destroyed three large…
The Italian football league system, also known as the Italian football pyramid, refers to the hierarchically interconnected league system for association football in Italy. It cons…
The first games of the Italian football league system are played
A hospital corpsman (HM) or corpsman is an enlisted medical specialist of the United States Navy, who may also serve in a U.S. Marine Corps unit. The corresponding rating within th…
The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established
Circumnavigation is the complete navigation of a person around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body. This article focuses on the circumnavigation of Earth.
The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government an…
US president William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Re…
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The Spanish–American War was fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. It began with the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, and resulted in the U.S. acqui…
Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports
The Spanish–American War was fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. It began with the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, and resulted in the U.S. acqui…
Spanish–American War: President William McKinley calls for 125,000 volunteers to join the National Guard and fight in Cu
Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith II was an American con artist and gangster in the American frontier and the Klondike.
The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron…
Sir Patrick Hennessy was an Irish-born British industrialist, originally from County Cork. During the First World War he served in the British Army, between 1914 and 1918, with the…
Patrick Hennessy, Irish soldier and businessman (died 1981)