Explore 1125 historical events from 1890–1899.
Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1864–1872).
Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss lawyer and politician (born 1811)
Alfredo Catalani was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas Loreley (1890) and La Wally (1892). La Wally was composed to a libretto by Luigi Illica, and…
Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (born 1854)
Jean-Martin Charcot was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. He worked on groundbreaking work about hypnosis and hysteria, in particular with his hysteria pa…
Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist and academic (born 1825)
Freiherr Alexander Wassilko von Serecki was an Austro-Hungarian ethnic Romanian statesman, Landeshauptmann of the Duchy of Bukovina and member of the Herrenhaus, the Upper House of…
Alexander Wassilko von Serecki, Austrian lawyer and politician (born 1827)
The Corinth Canal is a canal in Greece that connects the Gulf of Corinth in the Ionian Sea with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. Completed in 1893, it cuts through the narrow Is…
The Corinth Canal was formally opened, bisecting the narrow Isthmus of Corinth in Greece to connect the Ionian Sea's…
Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded …
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St. John's is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is located on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfound…
St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
The Véry bombing was a bomb attack carried out on 25 April 1892 in Paris by the anarchist militants Théodule Meunier, Jean‑Pierre François and Fernand Bricout against the restauran…
Véry bombing during the Ère des attentats (1892–1894)
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the fourth-most populous city in California and the 17th-most populous in the United States, with a population of…
In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club
The Chicago "L" is the rapid transit system serving the city of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs in the U.S. state of Illinois. Operated by the Chicago Transit Authority…
The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation
Homer Adolph Plessy was an American shoemaker and activist who was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson. He staged an act of civil disobedie…
Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court
The Limelight Department was one of the world's first film studios, beginning in 1898, operated by The Salvation Army in Melbourne, Australia. The Limelight Department produced eva…
The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman known for his work on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, electric power distribution and early motion pictures…
Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
Dora Rudolfine Richter was a German trans woman and the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female gender-affirming surgery. She was one of a number of transgender peopl…
Dora Richter, German transgender woman and the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female gender-affirming su
Howard Mumford Jones was an American intellectual historian, literary critic, journalist, poet, and professor of English at the University of Michigan and later at Harvard Universi…
Howard Mumford Jones, American author, critic, and academic (died 1980)
The Homestead strike, also known as the Homestead steel strike, Homestead massacre, or Battle of Homestead, was an industrial lockout and strike that occurred in the United States,…
The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main islands, two smaller, inha…
Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a leap year…
Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. A strike usually ta…
Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the…
The Katipunan, officially known as the Kataas-taasang, Kagalang-galangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan and abbreviated as the KKK, was a revolutionary organization founded in 189…
The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
Dadabhai Naoroji was an Indian political leader, merchant, scholar, and writer who played a role in both Indian and British public life. He was among the founding members of the In…
Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
Eugène Jules Houdry was a mechanical engineer who graduated from École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers in 1911.
Eugene Houdry, French-American mechanical engineer and inventor (died 1962)
Marcelle Germaine Tailleferre was a French composer and the only female member of the group of composers known as Les Six.
Germaine Tailleferre, French composer and educator (died 1983)
Frederick William Dixon was an English motorcycle racer and racing car driver. The designer of the motorcycle and banking sidecar system, he was also one of the few motorsport comp…
Freddie Dixon, English motorcycle racer and racing driver (died 1956)
Dr. Vernon Johns was an American minister based in the South and a pioneer in the civil rights movement. He is best known as the pastor (1947–52) of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Churc…
Vernon Johns, African-American minister and activist (died 1965)