Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
Joseph Hergenröther was a German Church historian and canonist, and the first Cardinal-Prefect of the Vatican Archive.
Joseph Hergenröther, German historian and cardinal (born 1824)
Catherine Booth was co-founder of The Salvation Army, along with her husband William Booth. Because of her influence in the formation of The Salvation Army she was known as the 'Mo…
Catherine Booth, English theologian and saint, co-founded The Salvation Army (born 1829)
Samuel Freeman Miller was an American lawyer and physician who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1862 until his death in 1890 and who authored landmark …
Samuel Freeman Miller, American lawyer and jurist (born 1816)
Sir Richard Francis Burton was a British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar. He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa and South America, as well as his…
Richard Francis Burton, English-Italian geographer and explorer (born 1821)
Carlo Lorenzini, better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi, was an Italian author, humourist, and journalist, widely known for his fairy tale novel The Adventures of Pinocchio.
Carlo Collodi, Italian journalist and author (born 1826)
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
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
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
Wilford Woodruff Sr. was an American religious leader who served as the fourth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1889 until his death. He ended the …
Wilford Woodruff, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wrote the first draft of a…
Sequoia National Park is a national park of the United States in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California. The park was established on September 25, 1890, and today p…
Sequoia National Park (pictured) was established to conserve giant sequoia trees in an area affected by logging in the…
John Muir, also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist…
At the encouragement of preservationist John Muir and writer Robert Underwood Johnson, the U.S. Congress established…
The Uddevalla Suffrage Association was a late-19th-century political movement founded in Uddevalla, Sweden. Local historians and the Swedish Social Democratic Party consider it th…
The Uddevalla Suffrage Association was founded in Uddevalla, Sweden, with the purpose of bringing about universal…