Explore 1717 historical events from 1890–1899.
Giovanni Giovanni Battista Emanuele Maria Segantini was an Austrian-born stateless painter known for his large pastoral landscapes of the Alps. He was one of the most famous artist…
Giovanni Segantini, Austrian painter (born 1858)
Ottmar Mergenthaler was a German-American inventor who invented the linotype machine, the first device that could easily and quickly set complete lines of type for use in printing …
Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine (born 1854)
William Henry Webb was a 19th-century New York City shipbuilder and philanthropist, who has been called America's first true naval architect.
William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist (born 1816)
Pearl Hart was a Canadian-born outlaw of the American Old West. She committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies in the United States, and her crime gained notoriety pri…
Pearl Hart, one of the few female outlaws of the American Old West, committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robber
Antonio Narciso Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta was a Filipino brigadier general and a pharmacist who fought in the Philippine–American War before his assassination on June 5, …
Antonio Luna, Commanding General of the Philippine Army, was assassinated in the midst of the Philippine–American War
Arthur Edward Jeune Collins was an English cricketer and soldier. He held, for 116 years, the record of highest score in cricket: as a 13-year-old schoolboy, he scored 628 not out …
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A newspaper hawker, newsboy or newsie is a street vendor of newspapers without a fixed newsstand. Related jobs include paperboys, delivering newspapers to subscribers, and news but…
Newsboys from Long Island City turned over a distribution wagon for the New York Journal, marking the start of the…
The 1899 Carrabelle hurricane caused significant damage in the Dominican Republic and the Florida Panhandle of the United States. The second tropical cyclone and second hurricane o…
A Category 1 hurricane (map pictured) made landfall in Azua Province, Dominican Republic, and destroyed three large…
The Italian football league system, also known as the Italian football pyramid, refers to the hierarchically interconnected league system for association football in Italy. It cons…
The first games of the Italian football league system are played
A hospital corpsman (HM) or corpsman is an enlisted medical specialist of the United States Navy, who may also serve in a U.S. Marine Corps unit. The corresponding rating within th…
The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established
Circumnavigation is the complete navigation of a person around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body. This article focuses on the circumnavigation of Earth.
The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government an…
US president William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Re…
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The Spanish–American War was fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. It began with the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, and resulted in the U.S. acqui…
Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports
The Spanish–American War was fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. It began with the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, and resulted in the U.S. acqui…
Spanish–American War: President William McKinley calls for 125,000 volunteers to join the National Guard and fight in Cu
Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith II was an American con artist and gangster in the American frontier and the Klondike.
The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron…
Carl Gustav Witt was a German astronomer and discoverer of two asteroids who worked at the Berlin Urania Observatory, a popular observatory of the Urania astronomical association o…
Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
The Spanish–American War was fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. It began with the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, and resulted in the U.S. acqui…
Spanish–American War: The United States Congress declares that a state of war between the U
The Spanish–American War was fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. It began with the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, and resulted in the U.S. acqui…
Spanish–American War: Battle of Manila Bay: The Asiatic Squadron of the United States Navy destroys the Pacific Squadron
The Spanish–American War was fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. It began with the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, and resulted in the U.S. acqui…
Spanish–American War: In the Battle of Guantánamo Bay, U
The Hundred Days' Reform or Wuxu Reform was a short-lived national, cultural, political and educational reform movement in the Qing Empire, from June 11 to September 21, 1898. It s…
The Hundred Days' Reform, a planned movement to reform social, political, and educational institutions in China, is star
Count Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov was a Russian statesman who advocated transferring the attention of Russian foreign policy from Europe to the Far East. He is probably best reme…
Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
Caleb Davis Bradham was an American pharmacist who invented the soft drink Pepsi.
Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, commonly known as Goodyear, is an American multinational tire manufacturer headquartered in Akron, Ohio. Since 2021, the company has been the wo…
The Goodyear tire company is founded in Akron, Ohio.