Explore 1125 historical events from 1890–1899.
Earl John "Sparky" Adams was an American professional Major League Baseball player who played with the Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, and Cincinnati Reds. A…
Sparky Adams, American baseball player and farmer (died 1989)
Karl August Leopold Böhm was an Austrian conductor. He was best known for his performances of the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, and Richard Strauss.
Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor and director (died 1981)
Kostas Krystallis was an ethnic Aromanian, Greek author and poet, representative of 19th century Greek pastoral literature. He was born an Ottoman subject in Epirus, but escaped to…
Kostas Krystallis, Greek author and poet (born 1868)
Émile Henry, nicknamed 'the Saint-Just of Anarchy', was an individualist and illegalist anarchist militant and terrorist. He is best known for his terrorist actions and is consider…
Émile Henry, French anarchist (born 1872)
August Adolf Eduard Eberhard Kundt was a German physicist known for developing Kundt's tube, an appartus used to measure the speed of sound in gases and solids.
August Kundt, German physicist and academic (born 1839)
Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal was a German jurist and the son of Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal.
Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German lawyer and jurist (born 1812)
Sir John Cox Bray was a prominent South Australian politician and the first native-born Premier of South Australia (1881–1884).
John Cox Bray, Australian politician, 15th Premier of South Australia (born 1842)
Alexandre-Antonin Taché was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, missionary of the Oblate order, author, and the first Archbishop of Saint Boniface in Manitoba, Canada.
Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop and missionary (born 1823)
Marie François Sadi Carnot was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1887 until his assassination in 1894.
Marie François Sadi Carnot, French engineer and politician, 5th President of France (born 1837)
Giorgio Costantino Schinas was a Maltese architect and civil engineer. He was of Greek descent.
Giorgio Costantino Schinas, Maltese architect and civil engineer (born 1834)
Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle was a French poet of the Parnassian movement. He is traditionally known by his surname only, Leconte de Lisle.
Leconte de Lisle, French poet and translator (born 1818)
Josef Hyrtl was an Austrian anatomist. His work in German, including the publication of Lehrbuch der Anatomie des Menschen in 1846, which was considered the German equivalent of Gr…
Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist and biologist (born 1810)
George Inness was an American landscape painter.
George Inness, American painter (born 1825)
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 …
A crowd of workers, unemployed due to the Panic of 1893, concluded the first significant popular protest march on Washin
The Pullman Company, founded by George Pullman, was a manufacturer of railroad cars in the mid-to-late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century, during the boom of r…
In response to a 28-percent wage cut, 4,000 Pullman Palace Car Company workers went on strike in Illinois, bringing rail
Davis Hanson Waite was an American politician. He was a member of the Populist Party, and he served as the eighth Governor of Colorado from 1893 to 1895.
Governor Davis Hanson Waite ordered the Colorado state militia to protect and support miners engaged in a five-month str
Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. He was the second World Chess Champion, holding the title for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest rei…
Germany's Emanuel Lasker defeated Wilhelm Steinitz to become the world chess champion, beginning a record 27-year reign
Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule, suspension, and, until 1960, cantilever bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by…
Tower Bridge (pictured), a combined bascule and suspension bridge over the River Thames in London, was inaugurated
Marquis Jules Félix Philippe Albert de Dion de Wandonne was a French pioneer of the automobile industry. He invented a steam-powered car and used it to win the world's first auto r…
Jules-Albert de Dion finished first in the world's first motor race, but did not win as his steam-powered car was…
Lizzie Andrew Borden was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892, axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was…
Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother
Katharine Lee Bates was an American author and poet, chiefly remembered for her anthem "America the Beautiful", but also for her many books and articles on social reform, on which …
Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado…
Henry Drushel Perky was a lawyer, businessman, promoter, and inventor. Perky is the inventor of shredded wheat.
Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
Lizzie Andrew Borden was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892, axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was…
The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts
Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He was the first Democrat elected president after th…
Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large,