Explore 1125 historical events from 1890–1899.
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet was an English painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter.
Edward Burne-Jones, English soldier and painter (born 1833)
Jean-Baptiste Salpointe was a French-born prelate who serve as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in New Mexico in the United States from 1885 to 1894.
Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, French-American archbishop (born 1825)
Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg, was a German statesman and diplomat who oversaw the unification of Germany and served as …
Otto von Bismarck, German lawyer and politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (born 1815)
Eugène Louis Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and alo…
Eugène Boudin, French painter (born 1824)
The Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon is a late Gothic period cadaver monument (transi) in the church of Saint-Étienne at Bar-le-Duc, in northeastern France. It consists of an altarpi…
The Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon (pictured) in Bar-le-Duc, France, was designated a monument historique
The Spanish–American War was fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. It began with the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, and resulted in the U.S. acqui…
In a bloodless event during the Spanish–American War, the United States captured Guam from Spain
The capture of Guam from Spain by the United States took place in a bloodless engagement during the Spanish–American War. The U.S. Navy sent a single cruiser, USS Charleston, to c…
The United States captured Guam from Spain in a bloodless event during the Spanish–American War
William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Re…
US president William McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
The Spanish–American War was fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. It began with the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, and resulted in the U.S. acqui…
Spanish–American War: After more than two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invaded Puerto Rico.
The Greco-Turkish War of 1897 or the Ottoman-Greek War of 1897 was fought between the Kingdom of Greece and the Ottoman Empire. Its immediate cause involved the status of the Ottom…
The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire
Italian anarchist Michele Angiolillo assassinated Spanish Prime Minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo on 8 August 1897, in Gipuzkoa. The head of government had been vacationing in …
Italian anarchist Michele Angiolillo assassinates Spanish Prime Minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical …
The first International Congress of Mathematicians is held in Zürich, Switzerland.
Nisargadatta Maharaj was an Indian guru of nonduality, belonging to the Inchagiri Sampradaya, a lineage of teachers from the Navnath Sampradaya.
Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian philosopher and educator (died 1981)
Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our…
Thornton Wilder, American novelist and playwright (died 1975)
Edouard Wyss-Dunant was a Swiss physician and alpinist. He had a distinguished career in medicine, both in his own country and abroad. He published a number of treatises in his pro…
Edouard Wyss-Dunant, Swiss physician and mountaineer (died 1983)
Count Ardito Desio was an Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist, and cartographer.
Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and cartographer (died 2001)
Sir Joseph John Thomson was a British physicist. He received the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations …
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The Republic of Hawaii was a short-lived one-party state in Hawaiʻi between July 4, 1894, when the Provisional Government of Hawaii had ended, and August 12, 1898, when it became a…
A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a yea
The British Overseas Territories (BOTs) are fourteen dependent territories of the United Kingdom (UK) that lie outside the British Islands. These territories are remnants of the fo…
British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt
Salomon August Andrée, during his lifetime most often known as S. A. Andrée, was a Swedish engineer, physicist, aeronaut and polar explorer who died while leading an attempt to rea…
Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon.
Chevalier Peter Bertram Cypriano Castellino de Noronha was a businessman and civil servant of Kanpur, India. He was knighted by Pope Paul VI in 1965 for his work for the Christia…
Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (died 1970)
Odd Lindbäck-Larsen was a Norwegian military officer and war historian. He participated in the Norwegian Campaign in Northern Norway during the Second World War as the chief-of-sta…
Odd Lindbäck-Larsen, Norwegian Army general and war historian (died 1975)
Folke Georg "Pytta" Jansson was a Swedish athlete who specialized in the triple jump.
Folke Jansson, Swedish athlete (died 1965)
Lester Bowles Pearson was a Canadian politician, diplomat, and scholar who served as the 14th prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968. He also served as leader of the Liberal Pa…
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