Explore 1335 historical events from 1890–1899.
Major-General John Charles Frémont was a United States Army officer, explorer, and politician. He was a United States senator from California and was the first Republican nominee f…
John C. Frémont, American general and politician, 5th Territorial Governor of Arizona (born 1813)
Johann Voldemar Jannsen was an Estonian journalist. He was one of the earliest figures of the Estonian national awakening, which he promoted through his newspaper, the Eesti Postim…
Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet (born 1819)
Gottfried Keller was a Swiss poet and writer of German literature. Best known for his novel Green Henry and his cycle of novellas called Seldwyla Folks, he became one of the most p…
Gottfried Keller, Swiss author, poet and playwright (born 1819)
Lydia Ernestine Becker was a leader in the early British suffrage movement, as well as an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy. She established Manchester as a…
Lydia Becker, English journalist, author, and activist, co-founded the Women's Suffrage Journal (born 1827)
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created …
Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter and illustrator (born 1853)
Louise-Victorine Ackermann was a French Parnassian poet.
Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet and author (born 1813)
John Boyle O'Reilly was an Irish poet, journalist, author and activist. As a youth in Ireland, he was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, or Fenians, for which he was tra…
John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer (born 1844)
John Henry Newman was an English Catholic theologian, academic, philosopher, historian, writer, and poet. He was an important figure in the religious history of England in the 19th…
John Henry Newman, English cardinal and theologian (born 1801)
Michael Joseph McGivney was an American Catholic priest based in New Haven, Connecticut. He founded the Knights of Columbus at a local parish to serve as a mutual aid and insurance…
Michael J. McGivney, American priest, founded the Knights of Columbus (born 1852)
Margaret Grey Eyes Solomon, better known as Mother Solomon, was a Wyandot nanny and cultural activist. Solomon was born along Owl Creek in Marion County, Ohio, to a Wyandot chief f…
Mother Solomon, Wyandot activist (born 1816)
Dionysius Lardner "Dion" Boucicault was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. By the later part of the 19th century, Boucicault had become known on both sides of …
Dion Boucicault, Irish-American actor and playwright (born 1820)
Ulm Minster is a Gothic style Evangelical church located in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the second tallest church in the world, with a steeple measuring 161.53 metres (5…
The Ulm Minster, the world's tallest church building, is completed in Ulm, Germany
Ulm Minster is a Gothic church of the Evangelical Church in Germany located in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg. It is the second-tallest church building in the world, with a steeple measuri…
Ulm Minster, the world's tallest church building, was completed in Ulm, Germany
Cavalleria rusticana is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story of the same …
The opera Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni, premieres at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome, beginning the verismo perio
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
Rudyard Kipling's poem Mandalay was published