Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
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)
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.
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 father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She will be…
The U.S. Pledge of Allegiance is a patriotic recited verse that promises allegiance to the flag of the United States and the republic of the United States. The first version was wr…
The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
Amalthea is a moon of Jupiter. It has the third-closest orbit around Jupiter among known moons and was the fifth moon of Jupiter to be discovered, so it is also known as Jupiter V.…
Amalthea becomes the last moon to be discovered without the use of photography.
The U.S. Pledge of Allegiance is a patriotic recited verse that promises allegiance to the flag of the United States and the republic of the United States. The first version was wr…
The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.
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)
Maud Hart Lovelace was an American writer best known for the Betsy-Tacy series.
Maud Hart Lovelace, American author (died 1980)
Rittmeister Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, known in English as Baron von Richthofen or the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the German Air Force during World W…
Manfred von Richthofen, German captain and pilot (died 1918)
Sir George Paget Thomson was a British experimental physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with Clinton Davisson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction …
George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)
The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 1 to October 30, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of C…
Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind…
Jacob Viner was a Canadian economist and is considered with Frank Knight and Henry Simons to be one of the "inspiring" mentors of the early Chicago school of economics in the 1930s…
Jacob Viner, Canadian-American economist and academic (died 1970)
Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod, CBE, FBA was an English archaeologist who specialised in the Palaeolithic period. She held the position of Disney Professor of Archaeology at the Un…
Dorothy Garrod, British archaeologist (died 1968)
Archibald MacLeish was an American poet and writer, who was associated with the modernist school of poetry. MacLeish studied English at Yale University and law at Harvard Universit…
Archibald MacLeish, American poet, playwright, and lawyer (died 1982)
Josip Broz, commonly known as Tito, was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who led Yugoslavia as prime minister from 1943 to 1963 and as president from 1953 until hi…
Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav field marshal and politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia (died 1980)
Adriaan Pelt was a Dutch journalist, international civil servant and diplomat, most famous for drafting the post war constitution of Libya.
Adriaan Pelt, Dutch journalist and diplomat (died 1981)
Zita of Bourbon-Parma was the last Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, in addition to other titles. She ascended to these titles when her husband, Charles I, became the last m…
Zita of Bourbon-Parma, last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (died 1989)
Fritz Kortner was an Austrian stage and film actor and theatre director.
Fritz Kortner, Austrian-German actor and director (died 1970)
Charles Emery Rosendahl was a highly decorated vice admiral in the United States Navy, and an advocate of lighter-than-air flight.
Charles E
William James Wilde was a Welsh professional boxer who competed from 1911 to 1923. He simultaneously held the National Sporting Clubs British flyweight title and the World Flyweigh…
Jimmy Wilde, Welsh boxer (died 1969)
Ezio Fortunato Pinza was an Italian opera singer. Pinza possessed a rich, smooth and sonorous voice, with a flexibility unusual for a bass. He spent 22 seasons at New York's Metro…
Ezio Pinza, Italian-American actor and singer (died 1957)
James Ridley Osgood Perkins was an American actor.
Osgood Perkins (actor, born 1892), American actor (died 1937)