Explore 419 historical events from 1890–1899.
Joshua Slocum was the first person to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Nova Scotian-born, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer. In 1900 he …
Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard th
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd (Петроград) and later Leningrad (Ленинград), is the second-largest city in Russia, after Moscow, the nation's capital. It is situated …
In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Soc
Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh was a New Zealand writer.
Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author and director (died 1982)
Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp was a Russian and Soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest, irreducible …
Vladimir Propp, Russian scholar and critic (died 1970)
Philippe Panneton was a Canadian physician, academic, diplomat and writer.
Philippe Panneton, Canadian physician, academic, and diplomat (died 1960)
May Hollinworth was an Australian theatre producer and director, former radio actress, and founder of the Metropolitan Theatre in Sydney. The daughter of a theatrical producer, she…
May Hollinworth, Australian theatre producer and director (died 1968)
Lorenz Milton Hart was an American lyricist and half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include "Blue Moon"; "The Lady Is a Tramp"; "…
Lorenz Hart, American playwright and lyricist (died 1943)
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular a…
Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" a
The Republic of Formosa was a short-lived unrecognized state that existed on the island of Taiwan in 1895 during the interregnum between the formal cession of Taiwan by the Qing dy…
The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president
Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent was an English conductor, organist and composer widely regarded as Britain's leading conductor of choral works. The musical ensembles with which he…
Malcolm Sargent, English organist, composer and conductor (died 1967)
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov, also spelt Ezhov, was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, at the height of the Great Purge. Ye…
Nikolai Yezhov, Soviet secret police official, head of the NKVD (died 1940)
Cornelius Van Til was a Dutch-American Reformed theologian, who is credited as being the originator of modern presuppositional apologetics.
Cornelius Van Til, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and apologist (died 1987)
Júlio César de Mello e Souza, was a Brazilian writer and mathematics teacher. He was well known in Brazil and abroad for his books on recreational mathematics, most of them publish…
Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian mathematician and author (died 1974)
Count Fidél Pálffy ab Erdőd was a Hungarian nobleman who emerged as a leading supporter of Nazism in Hungary.
Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian soldier and politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (died 1946)
Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaele Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla, known professionally as Rudolph Valentino or mononymously as Valentino, was an Italian-born actor and dancer…
Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (died 1926)
James Howard "Dutch" Kindelberger was an American aviation pioneer. He led North American Aviation from 1934 until 1960. An extroverted character, Kindelberger was famed for his em…
James H
Fulton John Sheen was an American Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Rochester from 1966 to 1969. He was known for his preaching, especially on television and radio.
Fulton J
Edmund Wilson Jr. was an American writer, literary critic, and journalist. He is widely regarded as one of the most important literary critics of the 20th century. Wilson began his…
Edmund Wilson, American critic, essayist, and editor (died 1972)
Richard Semler Barthelmess was an American film actor, principally of the Hollywood silent era. He starred opposite Lillian Gish in D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms (1919) and Way …
Richard Barthelmess, American actor (died 1963)
Lucian Blaga was a Romanian philosopher, poet, playwright, poetry translator and novelist. He is one of the most important philosophers and poets of Romania, and a prominent philos…
Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (died 1961)
Frank Kent Foss was an American pole vaulter. He won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics, while breaking his own unofficial world record.
Frank Foss, American pole vaulter (died 1989)
Jacques Marie Stanislas Jean Brugnon, nicknamed "Toto", was a French tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early…
Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (died 1978)
Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian spiritual figure, speaker, and writer. Adopted by members of the Theosophical Society as a child, Krishnamurti was raised to fill the mantle of the…
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher and speaker (died 1986)
William Grant Still Jr. was an American composer of nearly two hundred works, including five symphonies, four ballets, nine operas, and more than thirty choral works, art songs, ch…
William Grant Still, American composer and conductor (died 1978)