Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
A vehicle registration plate, also known as a number plate, license plate or licence plate, is a metal or plastic plate attached to a motor vehicle or trailer for official identifi…
France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
Romeo Bertini was an Italian athlete who competed mainly in the marathon.
Romeo Bertini, Italian runner (died 1973)
Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović was a Yugoslav Serb general during World War II. He was the leader of the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army (Chetniks), a royalist and nationali…
Draža Mihailović, Serbian general (died 1946)
Allen Sutton Sothoron was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager. As a player, he was a spitball pitcher who spent 11 years in the major leagues playing for th…
Allen Sothoron, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1939)
Harold Clayton Urey was an American physical chemist who conducted pioneering work on isotopes. He earned the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen." H…
Harold Urey, American chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1981)
Ibadan is the capital and most populous city of Oyo State, in Nigeria. It is one of the largest cities by population in Nigeria with a population of 4.3 million within its metropol…
Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British…
The 1893 Sea Islands hurricane was a catastrophic and deadly Category 3 major hurricane that struck the Sea Islands near Savannah, Georgia on August 27, 1893. It was the 7th deadli…
The Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000 and 2,000 people.
Women's suffrage was an important political issue in the late-nineteenth-century New Zealand. In early colonial New Zealand, as in other European societies, women were excluded fro…
In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor, giving all women in New Zealand the right…
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote s…
Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the…
Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramist from Spain. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona i…
Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor (died 1983)
Harold Patrick Breen was a senior Australian public servant. He was head of the Department of Defence Production between 1951 and 1957.
Harold Breen, Australian public servant (died 1966)
Ulrich Friedrich-Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop was a German politician, diplomat, and war criminal who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945.
Joachim von Ribbentrop, German soldier and politician, 14th German Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs (died 1946)
Francis Joseph Aloysius Selke was a Canadian professional ice hockey executive in the National Hockey League. He was a nine-time Stanley Cup champion with the Toronto Maple Leafs a…
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Francis DeSales Ouimet was an American amateur golfer who is frequently referred to as the "father of amateur golf" in the United States. He won the U.S. Open in 1913 and was the f…
Francis Ouimet, American golfer (died 1967)
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia was a Georgian writer and public figure. Educated and first published in Germany, he married Western European influences to purely Georgian thematic to pro…
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author (died 1975)
Edd J. Roush was an American professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball as a center fielder from 1913 to 1931, most prominently as a member of the C…
Edd Roush, American baseball player and coach (died 1988)
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Blythe Thornhill Wakelam, known as Teddy Wakelam, was an English sports broadcaster and rugby union player who captained Harlequin F.C.
Teddy Wakelam, English rugby player and sportscaster (died 1963)
William Moulton Marston, also known by the pen name Charles Moulton, was an American psychologist who, with his wife Elizabeth Holloway, invented an early prototype of the polygrap…
William Moulton Marston, American psychologist and author (died 1947)
Tonita Peña born as Quah Ah and also known as Tonita Vigil Peña and María Antonia Tonita Peña, was a renowned Pueblo artist, specializing in pen and ink on paper embellished with w…
Tonita Peña, San Ildefonso Pueblo (Native American) artist (died 1949)
Louis Jacques Marie Collin du Bocage, better known by the pen name Louis Verneuil, was a French playwright, screenwriter, and actor.
Louis Verneuil, French actor and playwright (died 1952)
José Nepomuceno y Zialcita was a Filipino filmmaker. A founding father of Philippine cinema, he is widely known for pioneering film directing and producing locally until the Second…
José Nepomuceno, Filipino filmmaker, founder of Philippine cinema (died 1959)
Frederick McKinley Jones was an American inventor, entrepreneur, engineer, winner of the National Medal of Technology, and an inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He in…
Frederick McKinley Jones, American inventor and entrepreneur (died 1961)
Arthur William Carr was an English cricketer. He played for the Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and the English cricket team, captaining both sides.
Arthur Carr, English cricketer (died 1963)
Sir Giles Tatlock Chippindall was a senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of Supply and Shipping between 1945 and 1946 and Director-General of the Po…
Giles Chippindall, Australian public servant (died 1969)