Explore 419 historical events from 1890–1899.
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon was an Indian academic, independence activist, politician, lawyer, and statesman. Menon contributed to the Indian independence movement and India's …
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Rolf Maximilian Sievert was a Swedish medical physicist whose major contribution was in the study of the biological effects of ionizing radiation.
Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Swedish physicist and academic (died 1966)
Kathleen "Kitty" McKane Godfree was a British tennis and badminton player and the second most decorated female British Olympian, joint with Katherine Grainger.
Kathleen McKane Godfree, English tennis and badminton player (died 1992)
Richard Day was a Canadian art director in the film industry. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category of Best Art Direction. He worked on 265…
Richard Day, Canadian-American art director and set decorator (died 1972)
Leutnant Karl Allmenröder was a German World War I flying ace credited with 30 aerial victories. The medical student son of a preacher father was seasoned in the trenches as an 18-…
Karl Allmenröder, German soldier and pilot (died 1917)
Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith was an English novelist and playwright. She is best known for writing I Capture the Castle (1948) and the children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatia…
Dodie Smith, English author and playwright (died 1990)
Josip Štolcer-Slavenski was a Croatian composer and professor at the Music Academy in Belgrade.
Josip Štolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer and academic (died 1955)
Eric Natanael Backman was a Swedish long distance runner who had his best achievements at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
Eric Backman, Swedish runner (died 1965)
Felix Martin Julius Steiner was a German SS commander during the Nazi era. During World War II, he served in the Waffen-SS, the combat branch of the SS, and commanded several SS di…
Felix Steiner, Russian-German SS officer (died 1966)
Howard Winchester Hawks was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. The critic Leonard Maltin called him "the greatest American director…
Howard Hawks, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1977)
Sydney Bernard Kyte was a British dance band leader and violinist who became known in the 1930s, when he led the resident band at The Piccadilly Hotel in London's West End. Kyte ma…
Sydney Kyte, British bandleader (died 1981)
Thomas Meik was a 19th-century Scottish engineer.
Thomas Meik, English engineer, founded Halcrow Group (born 1812)
Silas Adams was an American attorney and politician from Kentucky who served for one term as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky's 11th congression…
Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (born 1839)
Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American con artist and serial killer active between 1891 and 1894. By the time of his execu…
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Clara Josephine Schumann was a German virtuoso pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influen…
Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (born 1819)
Alexander Grigorievich Stoletov was a Russian physicist, founder of electrical engineering, and professor in Moscow University. He was the brother of general Nikolai Stoletov.
Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (born 1839)
Sir Henry Parkes, was a colonial Australian politician and the longest-serving non-consecutive premier of the Colony of New South Wales, the present-day state of New South Wales in…
Henry Parkes, English-Australian businessman and politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales (born 1815)
Gabriel Auguste Daubrée MIF FRS FRSE was a French geologist, best known for applying experimental methods to structural geology. He served as the director of the École des Mines as…
Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist and academic (born 1814)
The following landmark court decisions changed the interpretation of existing law in the United States. Such a decision may settle the law in more than one way:establishing a new l…
Ruling in the landmark decision Plessy v
The 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado was a historic tornado that caused severe damage to downtown St. Louis, Missouri, East St. Louis, Illinois, and surrounding areas on Wedne…
The St
Sir Ove Nyquist Arup was a British engineer with Danish heritage who founded Arup, a multinational corporation offering engineering, design, planning, project management, and consu…
Ove Arup, English-Danish engineer and businessman, founded Arup (died 1988)
Robert Dean Frisbie was an American writer of travel literature about Polynesia.
Robert Dean Frisbie, American soldier and author (died 1948)
Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant was a French essayist, novelist, and dramatist. He was elected to the Académie française in 1960.
Henry de Montherlant, French essayist, novelist, and dramatist (died 1972)
The Treaty of Shimonoseki , also known as the Treaty of Maguan in China or the Treaty of Bakan in Japan, was signed in Shimonoseki, Japan, on April 17, 1895, between the Empire of…
The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed