Explore 552 historical events from 1890–1899.
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig was a German physician and physiologist. His work as both a researcher and teacher had a major influence on the understanding, methods and apparatus u…
Carl Ludwig, German physician and physiologist (born 1815)
Graf Eric Stanislaus Stenbock was a Baltic Swedish poet and writer of macabre fantastic fiction.
Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (born 1860)
John James "Jolly Jack" Adams was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach, and general manager in the National Hockey League and Pacific Coast Hockey Association. He playe…
Jack Adams, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 1968)
José Julián Martí Pérez was a Cuban nationalist, poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, professor, and publisher, who is considered a Cuban national hero because of h…
José Martí, Cuban journalist, poet, and philosopher (born 1853)
Franz von Suppé, born Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo de Suppé was an Austrian composer of light operas and other theatre music. He came from the Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austro-Hungar…
Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (born 1819)
Franz Ernst Neumann was a German mineralogist and physicist. He devised the first formulas to calculate inductance. He also formulated Neumann's law for molecular heat. In electrom…
Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician (born 1798)
Ahmed Cevdet Pasha was an Ottoman scholar, intellectual, bureaucrat, administrator, and historian who was a prominent figure in the Tanzimat reforms of the Ottoman Empire. He was t…
Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman sociologist, historian, and jurist (born 1822)
Samuel Jones Tilden was an American politician who served as the 25th governor of New York and was the Democratic nominee in the disputed 1876 United States presidential election.
Backed by Samuel J
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…
Oscar Wilde was sentenced by Alfred Wills to two years of hard labor for gross indecency
The Krag–Jørgensen is a repeating bolt-action rifle designed by the Norwegians Ole Herman Johannes Krag and Erik Jørgensen in the late 19th century. It was adopted as a standard ar…
Norway formally adopts the Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would rem
Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey. They marched on Washington, D.C., in 1894, the second year of a …
Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D
The Pullman Strike comprised two interrelated strikes in 1894 that shaped national labor policy in the United States during a period of deep economic depression. First came a strik…
Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike
The Manchester Ship Canal is a 36-mile-long (58 km) inland waterway in the North West of England linking Manchester to the Irish Sea. Starting at the Mersey Estuary at Eastham, nea…
The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer S
Elizabeth Eloise Kirkpatrick Dilling was an American writer and political activist. In 1934, she published The Red Network—A Who's Who and Handbook of Radicalism for Patriots, whic…
Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (died 1966)
Frank Borzage was an American film director and actor. He was the first person to win the Academy Award for Best Director for his film 7th Heaven (1927) at the 1st Academy Awards.
Frank Borzage, American actor and director (died 1962)
Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was a German politician, convicted war criminal, and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Germany. Appointed Deputy to the Führer in 1933, Hess held tha…
Rudolf Hess, German politician and Deputy Führer in Nazi regime until 1941 (died 1987)
The governor of Colorado is the head of government of the U.S. state of Colorado. The governor is the head of the executive branch of Colorado's state government and is charged wit…
Governor Davis H
George Brown Petty IV was an American pin-up artist. His pin-up art appeared primarily in Esquire and Fawcett Publications's True but was also in calendars marketed by Esquire, Tru…
George Petty, American painter and illustrator (died 1975)
Nicolas Slonimsky, born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy, was a Russian-American musicologist, conductor, pianist, lexicographer, and composer. Best known for his writing and musical…
Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1995)
Marietta Blau was an Austrian physicist of the 20th century who pioneered developments of photographic nuclear emulsions to image and accurately measure high-energy nuclear particl…
Marietta Blau, Austrian physicist and academic (died 1970)
Norma Marie Talmadge was an American actress and film producer of the silent era. A major box-office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when…
Norma Talmadge, American actress of the silent era (died 1957)
Joseph Henry Woodger was a British theoretical biologist and philosopher of biology whose attempts to make biological sciences more rigorous and empirical was significantly influen…
Joseph Henry Woodger, English biologist, philosopher, and academic (died 1981)
Benjamin Graham was an English-American financial analyst, economist, accountant, investor and professor. He is widely known as the "father of value investing", and wrote two of th…
Benjamin Graham, British-American economist, professor, and investor (died 1976)
Martha Graham was an American modern dancer, teacher and choreographer responsible for creating the Graham technique.
Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (died 1991)