Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
Jean-Baptiste Capronnier was a Belgian stained glass painter. Born in Brussels in 1814, he had much to do with the modern revival of glass-painting, and first made his reputation b…
Jean-Baptiste Capronnier, Belgian stained glass painter (born 1814)
James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the fireside poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first …
James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (born 1819)
Sarah Childress Polk was the first lady of the United States from 1845 to 1849. She was the wife of the 11th president of the United States, James K. Polk.
Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (born 1803)
Jan Nepomuk Neruda was a Czech journalist, writer, poet and art critic; one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Realism and a member of the "May School".
Jan Neruda, Czech journalist, author, and poet (born 1834)
Robert Caldwell was a British missionary and linguist.
Robert Caldwell, English missionary and linguist (born 1814)
Pierre Lallement is considered by some to be the inventor of the pedal bicycle.
Pierre Lallement, French businessman, invented the bicycle (born 1843)
Charles Jamrach was a leading dealer in wildlife, birds and shells in 19th-century London. He owned an exotic pet store on the Ratcliffe Highway in east London – at the time the la…
Charles Jamrach, German-English businessman (born 1815)
Lorenzo Sawyer was an American lawyer and judge who was appointed to the Supreme Court of California in 1860 and served as the ninth Chief Justice of California from 1868 to 1870. …
Lorenzo Sawyer, American lawyer and judge (born 1820)
Samuel Clarke Pomeroy was a United States senator from Kansas in the mid-19th century. He served in the United States Senate during the American Civil War. Pomeroy also served in t…
Samuel C. Pomeroy, American businessman and politician (born 1816)
François Judith Paul Grévy, known as Jules Grévy, was a French lawyer and politician who served as President of France from 1879 to 1887. He was a leader of the Moderate Republican…
Jules Grévy, French politician, 4th President of the French Republic (born 1813)
David Humphreys Storer was an American physician and naturalist. He served as dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard Medical School from 1855 to 1864.
David Humphreys Storer, American physician and naturalist (born 1804)
Johannes Bosboom was a Dutch painter and watercolorist of the Hague School, known especially for his paintings of church interiors.
Johannes Bosboom, Dutch painter (born 1817)
Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov was a Russian novelist best known for his novels The Same Old Story, Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice. He also served in many official capacities, in…
Ivan Goncharov, Russian author and critic (born 1812)
Herman Melville was an American writer of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences …
Herman Melville, American author and poet (born 1819)
Georges Ernest Jean-Marie Boulanger, nicknamed Général Revanche, was a French Army officer and politician. An enormously popular public figure during the second decade of the Third…
Georges Ernest Boulanger, French general and politician, French Minister of War (born 1837)
François Édouard Anatole Lucas was a French mathematician. Lucas is known for his study of the Fibonacci sequence and the Tower of Hanoi. The related Lucas sequences and Lucas numb…
Édouard Lucas, French mathematician and theorist (born 1842)
Gilbert Arthur à Beckett was an English writer.
Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, English author and songwriter (born 1837)
The Minor Basilica and Parish of Saint Sebastian, also known as the Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel of Saint Sebastian and commonly known as San Sebastian Church or San Sebastia…
San Sebastian Church (pictured), an all-iron church in Manila, was officially consecrated.
Charles Stewart Parnell was an Irish nationalist politician who served as a leader of the Home Rule League from 1880 to 1882, and then of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1882 to…
Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (born 1846)
Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, also Ernst Fleischl von Marxow, was an Austrian physiologist and physician who became known for his important investigations on the electrical activity o…
Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist and physician (born 1846)
The Chilean Civil War of 1891, or the Second Chilean Civil War or Revolution of 1891, was a civil war in Chile fought between forces supporting Congress and forces supporting the P…
Chilean Civil War: The armored frigate Blanco Encalada (pictured) was sunk at the Battle of Caldera Bay, the first ironc
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue at 881 Seventh Avenue, between 56th and 57th Streets, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Designed by architect William Burnet Tuthill and built b…
Carnegie Hall (interior pictured) in New York City, built by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, officially opened with
The Kronstadt–Toulon naval visits were reciprocal diplomatic visits carried out by the French and Russian navies in the lead up to the Franco-Russian Alliance (1894–1917). The visi…
During a visit of the French Navy to Kronstadt in Russia, the two nations reached a secret agreement on a joint…
The 1891 Martinique hurricane, also known as Hurricane San Magín, was an intense major hurricane that struck the island of Martinique and caused massive damage. The third known hur…
A hurricane struck the Caribbean island of Martinique, killing about 700 people, injuring at least 1,000 others, and…