Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
Charles-François Gounod was a French composer, conductor, and organist of the Romantic era. He wrote twelve operas, of which the most popular has always been Faust (1859); his Romé…
Charles Gounod, French composer and educator (born 1818)
Alexander Joseph, known as Alexander of Battenberg, was the first prince (knyaz) of the autonomous Principality of Bulgaria from 1879 until his abdication in 1886.
Alexander of Battenberg (born 1857)
Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott was the third prime minister of Canada, serving from 1891 to 1892. He held office as the leader of the Conservative Party.
John Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (born 1821)
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.
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.
The Lindal railway incident happened on Thursday 22 September 1892 near Lindal-in-Furness, a village lying between the Cumbria towns of Ulverston and Dalton-in-Furness. A Furness R…
A locomotive shunting falls into a hole in the ground, leading to the burial of the locomotive.
The 1892 Wyoming Seminary vs. Mansfield Normal football game, played September 28, 1892, was the first-ever American football game played at night.
The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
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
206P/Barnard–Boattini was the first comet to be discovered by photographic means. First observed by Edward Emerson Barnard in 1892, it was subsequently lost for 116 years until it …
Edward Emerson Barnard is first to discover a comet by photographic means.
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National A…
Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
Dora Rudolfine Richter was a German trans woman and the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female gender-affirming surgery. She was one of a number of transgender peopl…
Dora Richter, German transgender woman and the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female gender-affirming su
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
The Homestead strike, also known as the Homestead steel strike, Homestead massacre, or Battle of Homestead, was an industrial lockout and strike that occurred in the United States,…
The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main islands, two smaller, inha…
Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a leap year…
Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. A strike usually ta…
Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the…
Howard Mumford Jones was an American intellectual historian, literary critic, journalist, poet, and professor of English at the University of Michigan and later at Harvard Universi…
Howard Mumford Jones, American author, critic, and academic (died 1980)
Eugène Jules Houdry was a mechanical engineer who graduated from École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers in 1911.
Eugene Houdry, French-American mechanical engineer and inventor (died 1962)