Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the fireside poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers …
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician, author, and poet (born 1809)
William Robinson was an Irish-born Canadian architect and land surveyor. Born in New Ross, County Wexford, Robinson emigrated to Upper Canada with his family in 1836. While the fam…
William Robinson (Canadian architect), Canadian architect and land surveyor (b. 1812)
James Anthony Froude was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended…
James Anthony Froude, English historian, novelist, biographer and editor (born 1818)
Honoré Mercier was a Canadian lawyer, journalist and politician in Quebec. He was the ninth premier of Quebec from January 27, 1887, to December 21, 1891, as leader of the Parti Na…
Honoré Mercier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Premier of Quebec (born 1840)
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
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
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,
In U.S. history, the Land Run of 1893, also known as the Cherokee Outlet Opening or the Cherokee Strip Land Run, marked the opening to settlement of the Cherokee Outlet in the Okla…
Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
Charles Edgar Duryea was an American engineer. He was the engineer of the second working American gasoline-powered car and co-founder of Duryea Motor Wagon Company. He was born nea…
Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
Germaine Guèvremont, born Grignon was a Canadian writer, who was a prominent figure in Quebec literature.
Germaine Guèvremont, Canadian journalist and author (died 1968)
John Kelley Norton was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metre hurdles. He was born in Santa Clara, California and died in New York City. Norton competed for the U…
John Norton, American hurdler (died 1979)
Harold Clayton Lloyd Sr. was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer who appeared in many silent comedy films.
Harold Lloyd, American actor, comedian, and producer (died 1971)
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, responsible for defending the country, the Crown Dependencies, and the Overseas Territories from naval attack …
The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which s
Daniel Hale Williams was a Black American surgeon and hospital founder. He founded Provident Hospital in 1891, which was the first non-segregated hospital in the United States. He …
Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States…
A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a …
The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.
In political science, a revolution is a rapid, fundamental transformation of a society's class, state, ethnic, or religious structures. According to the sociologist Jack Goldstone,…
A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua.