1890 34707 225238088 2008-07-12T17:00:54Z Skoglund 609014 /* Undated */ {{year nav|1890}} {{C19YearInTopicX}} Year '''1890''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCCCXC]]''') was a [[common year starting on Wednesday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]] (or a [[common year starting on Monday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]). <!-- 12-day span=Mon-Sat,Tue-Sun,Wed-Mon,Thu-Tue,Fr-We,Sa-Th,Sun-Fri --> == Events of 1890 == [[Image:Nellie Bly 2.jpg|thumb|120px|right| [[January 25]]: [[Nellie Bly]], 1890.]] === January - March === <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[January 1]] **The Kingdom of Italy establishes [[Eritrea]] as its colony in northeast Africa. **In [[Michigan]], the wooden steamer ''Mackinaw'' burned in a fire on the [[Black River]].<ref name=boats90>"Full List of Thunder Bay Region Shipwrecks" (by name), MSU Sea Grant Extension, Northeast District, [[Michigan State University]], 2000, webpage: [http://web1.msue.msu.edu/iosco/tbfulllist.htm MSUE-TB-wrecks].</ref> * [[January 2]] **Steamship ''Persia'' wrecked off [[Corsica]]: 130 lives lost.<ref name=ships90>"List of shipwrecks of [[1866]]-[[1911]]" (timeline), webpage: [http://www.google.com TBD].</ref> **Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer in the [[White House]].{{Fact|date=June 2008}} * [[January 25]] **[[United Mine Workers of America]] is founded. **[[Nellie Bly]] completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days. [[Image:Bb-forthrailbridge.jpg|thumb|200px|right| [[March 4]]: [[Forth Bridge (railway)|Forth Bridge]] is opened.]] * [[February 17]] - British steamship ''Duburg'' wrecked in [[China Sea]]: 400 lives lost.<ref name=ships90/> * [[March 1]] **[[United Kingdom|British]] steamship ''Quetia'' foundered in Lorres Straits; 124 lives lost.<ref name=ships90/> **[[March 1]] - [[Léon Bourgeois]] succeeds [[Ernest Constans]] as French [[Minister of the Interior (France)|Minister of the Interior]]. * [[March 4]] - The longest bridge in Britain, the [[Forth Bridge (railway)|Forth Bridge]] (1,710 ft) in Scotland, is opened. * [[March 8]] - [[North Dakota State University]] is founded in [[Fargo, North Dakota]]. * [[March 20]] - [[Wilhelm II of Germany]] fires [[Otto von Bismarck]]. * [[March 27]] - A [[tornado]] strikes [[Louisville, Kentucky]], killing 76 people and injuring 200. * [[March 28]] - [[Washington State University]] is founded in [[Pullman, Washington]]. === April - June === <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> [[Image:ClevelandArcade Interior Flag.jpg|thumb|200px|right| [[May 31]]: [[Cleveland Arcade]].]] * [[May 12]] - The first ever ''official'' [[County Championship]] [[cricket]] match begins in [[Bristol]]. [[Yorkshire]] beats [[Gloucestershire]] by eight wickets. * [[May 31]] - The 5-story skylight [[Cleveland Arcade|Arcade]] opens in [[Cleveland, Ohio]]. * [[June 1]] - The [[United States Census Bureau]] begins using [[Herman Hollerith]]'s [[tabulating machine]] to count [[census]] returns. * [[June 12]] - In [[Michigan]], the wooden steamer ''Ryan'' is lost near [[Thunder Bay Island]].<ref name=boats90/> <!-- Unsourced image removed: [[Image:Tabmac.jpg|thumb|180px|right| [[June 1]]: [[Herman Hollerith]] [[tabulating machine]].]] --> [[Image:VanGogh 1887 Selbstbildnis.jpg|thumb|120px|right| [[July 27]]: [[Vincent van Gogh]].]] === July - September === <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[July 2]] - The [[Sherman Anti-Trust Act]] and [[Sherman Silver Purchase Act]] become [[United States]] law. * [[July 3]] - [[Idaho]] is admitted as the 43rd [[U.S. State]]. * [[July 10]] - [[Wyoming]] is admitted as the 44th [[U.S. State]]. * [[July 27]] - [[Vincent van Gogh]] shoots himself in the stomach and dies two days later. * July - [[Politics of Japan]] - first [[general election]] for the [[House of Representatives of Japan]]. <!--AUGUST--> * [[August 6]] - At [[Auburn Prison]] in [[New York]], [[William Kemmler]] becomes the first person to be [[execution (legal)|executed]] in the [[electric chair]]. <!--SEPTEMBER--> * [[September 19]] - [[Turkey|Turkish]] frigate ''[[Ertogrul]]'' founders off [[Japan]]: 540 lives lost.<ref name=ships90/> === October - December === <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> [[Image:New-Scotland-Yard-Victorian-building-Big-Ben-1890.jpg|thumb|260px|right| November: [[New Scotland Yard]] [center] opens near the [[Big Ben]] clock tower.]] [[Image:Wounded Knee 96.jpg|thumb|190px|right| [[December 29]]: [[Wounded Knee Massacre|Wounded Knee]].]] * [[October 8]] - First brief, partially-controlled flight of [[Clement Ader]]'s airplane "Eole" in [[Satory]], [[France]]. * [[October 11]] - In [[Washington, DC]], the [[Daughters of the American Revolution]] is founded. * [[October 13]] **In [[Michigan]], the [[schooner]] ''J.F. Warner'' is lost at Thunder Bay.<ref name=boats90/> **The [[Delta Chi|Delta Chi Fraternity]] is founded by 11 law students at [[Cornell University]] in [[Ithaca, New York]]. * [[November 23]] - King [[William III of the Netherlands]] dies without a male heir, and his daughter [[Wilhelmina of the Netherlands|Princess Wilhelmina]] becomes Queen, causing [[Luxembourg]] (who required a male heir) to declare independence. * [[November 29]] **The [[Meiji Constitution]] goes into effect in [[Japan]] and the first [[Diet of Japan|Diet]] convenes. **In [[West Point, New York]], the [[United States Navy]] defeats the [[United States Army]] 24 to 0 in the first [[Army-Navy football game]]. *November - [[Scotland Yard]], headquarters of the [[Metropolitan Police Service]], moves to a building on [[London]]'s [[Victoria Embankment]], as the [[New Scotland Yard]]. * [[December 27]] - [[United Kingdom|British]] steamship ''[[Shanghai]]'' burned in [[China Sea]]: 101 lives lost.<ref name=ships90/> * [[December 29]] - [[Wounded Knee Massacre]]: At [[Wounded Knee, South Dakota]] the [[US 7th Cavalry Regiment]] tries to disarm camp & shooting starts. 153 [[Lakota Sioux]] and 25 troops are killed; about 150 flee the scene. ===Undated=== * The [[corrugated cardboard]] box is invented by [[Robert Gair]], a [[Brooklyn]] printer who developed production of paper-board boxes in [[1879]]. [[Image:Hollerith.jpg|thumb|90px|right|[[Herman Hollerith]].]] * U.S. Census - [[Herman Hollerith]] devises a method using [[punch cards]] (like [[Joseph-Marie Jacquard|Jacquard's]] loom) to tabulate census data by machine. (see also [[History of computing hardware]]). Hollerith's company eventually becomes [[International Business Machines|IBM]]. * Prosecution of [[Edward King (English bishop)|Edward King]], [[Anglican]] [[bishop of Lincoln]] for using [[Ritualism|ritualistic practices]] ends. * The United States city of [[Boise, Idaho]] drills the first [[Geothermal (geology)|geothermal]] well. * [[Brown Trout]] introduced into the upper [[Firehole River]] in [[Yellowstone National Park]]. * [[High School Cadets]] was written by [[John Phillip Sousa]]. *[[William II of Prussia]] opposes Bismarck's attempt to renew the law outlawing the [[Social Democratic party]]. * [[Blackwall Buildings]], [[Whitechapel]], in the [[East End of London]], noted [[philanthropic]] housing built. <!--IMAGES --><gallery> Image:Corrugated Cardboard.JPG| [[Cardboard|Corrugated]] boxes Image:Puhagan geothermal plant.jpg| [[Geothermal power]] </gallery> ==Births== {{Year in other calendars|japanese=[[Meiji period|Meiji]] 23}} ===January - June=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[January 1]] - [[Anton Melik]], Slovenian geographer (d. [[1966]]) * [[January 4]] - [[Victor Lustig]], Bohemian-born con artist (d. [[1947]]) * [[January 9]] **[[Kurt Tucholsky]], German-born journalist and satirist (d. [[1935]]) **[[Karel Čapek]], Czech writer (d. [[1938]]) * [[January 11]] - [[Oswald de Andrade]], Brazilian [[Modernism|Modernist]] writer (d.[[1954]]) * [[January 19]] - [[Élise Rivet]], French Roman Catholic nun and war heroine (d. [[1945]]) * [[January 22]] - [[Fred M. Vinson]], [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (d. [[1953]]) * [[January 28]] - [[Robert Stroud]], "Birdman of Alcatraz" (d. [[1963]]) * [[February 10]] - [[Boris Pasternak]], Russian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (declined) (d. [[1960]]) * [[February 14]] - [[Nina Hamnett]], Welsh artist (d. [[1956]]) * [[February 17]] - [[Ronald Fisher]], English biologist (d. [[1962]]) * [[February 18]] - [[Adolphe Menjou]], American actor (d. [[1963]]) * [[February 24]] - [[Marjorie Main]], American actress (d. [[1975]]) * [[February 25]] - Dame [[Myra Hess]], English pianist (d. [[1965]]) * [[February 27]] - [[Freddie Keppard]], American jazz musician (d. [[1933]]) * [[March 3]] - [[Norman Bethune]], Canadian doctor and humanitarian (d. [[1939]]) * [[March 9]] - (new style) [[Vyacheslav Molotov]], [[Soviet]] politician (d. [[1986]]) * [[March 11]] - [[Vannevar Bush]], [[United States|American]] [[engineer]], [[inventor]], and politician (d. [[1974]]) * [[March 20]] **[[Beniamino Gigli]], Italian tenor (d. [[1957]]) **[[Lauritz Melchior]], Danish-American tenor (d. [[1973]]) * [[March 28]] - [[Paul Whiteman]], American bandleader (d. [[1967]]) * [[March 31]] - [[William Lawrence Bragg]], English physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1971]]) * [[April 6]] - [[Anthony Fokker]], Dutch aircraft manufacturer (d. [[1939]]) * [[April 7]] - [[Marjory Stoneman Douglas]], American conservationist and writer (d. [[1998]]) * [[April 11]] - [[Donna Rachele Mussolini]], Italian, wife of [[Benito Mussolini]] (died [[1979]]) * [[April 15]] - [[Percy Shaw]], Brittish Inventor (d. [[1976]]) * [[April 16]] - [[Fred Root]], English cricketer (d. [[1954]]) * [[April 20]] - [[Maurice Duplessis]], [[Premier of Québec|premier]] of [[Québec]] (d. [[1959]]) * [[May 4]] - [[Franklin Carmichael]], Canadian artist (d. [[1945]]) * [[May 10]] - [[Alfred Jodl]], German general (d. [[1946]]) * [[May 11]] - [[Woodall Rodgers]], mayor of [[Dallas, Texas]] (d. [[1961]]) * [[May 15]] - [[Katherine Anne Porter]], American author (d. [[1980]]) * [[May 19]] - [[Ho Chi Minh]], Prime minister/president of North Vietnam (d. [[1969]]) * [[May 23]] - [[Herbert Marshall]], English actor (d. [[1966]]) * [[June 6]] - [[Ted Lewis (musician)|Ted Lewis]], American jazz musician and entertainer (d. [[1971]]) * [[June 16]] - [[Stan Laurel]], British actor (d. [[1965]]) * [[June 26]] - [[Jeanne Eagels]], American actress (d. [[1929]]) ===July - December=== <!-- BIRTHS --> <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[July 18]] - [[Frank Forde]], Australian [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] (d. [[1983]]) * [[July 22]] - [[Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy]], American [[philanthropist]] and matriarch of the [[Kennedy family]] (d. [[1995]]) * [[August 4]] - [[Erich Weinert]], German writer and political activist (d. [[1953]]) * [[August 5]] - [[Erich Kleiber]], Austrian conductor (d. [[1956]]) * [[August 10]] - [[Angus Lewis Macdonald|Angus L. Macdonald]], [[Nova Scotia]] Premier (d. [[1954]]) * [[August 15]] **<!--August 15-->[[Jacques Ibert]], French composer (d. [[1962]]) **<!--August 15-->[[Elizabeth Bolden]], American, last verified person born in 1890 (d. [[2006]]) * [[August 18]] - [[Walther Funk]], German politician (d. [[1960]]) * [[August 20]] - [[H. P. Lovecraft]], American writer (d. [[1937]]) * [[August 24]] - [[Duke Kahanamoku]], American swimmer (d. [[1968]]) * [[September 10]] - [[Elsa Schiaparelli]], French couturiere (d. [[1973]]) * [[September 15]] **<!--September 15-->[[Agatha Christie]], English writer (d. [[1976]]) **<!--September 15-->[[Frank Martin (composer)|Frank Martin]], Swiss composer (d. [[1974]]) * [[September 20]] - [[Jelly Roll Morton]], American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. [[1941]]) **<!--September 20--> [[Ra'hel Bluwstein]], Israeli poet (d. [[1931]]) * [[October 2]] - [[Groucho Marx]], American comedian (d. [[1977]]) * [[October 8]] - [[Eddie Rickenbacker]], American WWI fighter pilot (d. [[1973]]) * [[October 13]] - [[Conrad Richter]], American novelist and short story writer (d. [[1968]]) * [[October 14]] - [[Dwight David Eisenhower]], U.S. general and [[President of the United States]] (d. [[1969]]) * [[October 16]] **<!--October 16-->[[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]], Irish patriot (d. [[1922]]) **<!--October 16-->[[Paul Strand]], American photographer (d. [[1976]]) * [[October 17]] - [[Roy Kilner]], English cricketer (d. [[1928]]) * [[November 20]] - [[Leon Cadore]], American baseball pitcher (d. [[1968]]) * [[November 22]] - [[Charles de Gaulle]], [[President of France]] (d. [[1970]]) * [[November 23]] - [[El Lissitzky]], Russian artist and architect (d. [[1941]]) * [[December 5]] - [[David Bomberg]], English painter (d. [[1957]]) * [[December 8]] - [[Bohuslav Martinů]], Czech composer (d. [[1959]]) * [[December 11]] - [[Carlos Gardel]], Argentine [[Argentine Tango|tango]] singer (d. [[1935]]) * [[December 20]] - [[Jaroslav Heyrovský]], Czech chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1967]]) * [[December 21]] - [[Hermann Joseph Muller]], American geneticist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1967]]) * [[December 26]] - [[Uncle Charlie Osborne]], Appalachian fiddler (d. [[1992]]) * [[December 30]] - [[Lanoe Hawker]], British fighter pilot (d. [[1916]]) *''date unknown'' **[[Bechara El Khoury]], [[President of Lebanon]] (d. [[1964]]) **[[Taixu]], Chinese Buddhist activist (d. [[1947]]) {{Seealso|:Category: 1890 births}} ==Deaths== ===January - June=== <!-- DEATHS --> <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *[[January 18]] - King [[Amadeus I of Spain]] (b. [[1845]]) *[[February 22]] **[[John Jacob Astor III]], American businessman (b. [[1822]]) **[[Carl Heinrich Bloch]], Danish painter (b. [[1834]]) *[[March 3]] - [[Innocenzo da Berzo]], Capuchin friar (b. [[1844]]) *[[March 7]] - [[Karl Rudolf Friedenthal]], Prussian statesman (b. [[1827]]) *[[March 9]] - Sir [[Mangaldas Nathubhoy]], Indian politician (b. [[1832]]) *[[April 1]] - [[David Wilber]], American politician (b. [[1820]]) *[[April 11]] - [[Joseph Carey Merrick]] (The Elephant Man), English oddity (b. [[1862]]) *[[June 24]] - [[Subba Row]], Hindu theosophist (b. [[1856]]) *[[June 30]] - [[Samuel Parkman Tuckerman]], American composer (b. [[1819]]) ===July - December=== <!-- DEATHS --> *[[July 9]] - [[Clinton B. Fisk]], American [[philanthropist]] and [[Temperance movement|temperance]] activist (b. [[1828]]) *[[July 15]] - [[Gottfried Keller]], Swiss writer (b. [[1819]]) *[[July 29]] - [[Vincent van Gogh]], Dutch painter (b. [[1853]]) *[[August 11]] - [[John Henry Newman]], English Roman Catholic Cardinal (b. [[1801]]) *[[October 4]] - [[Catherine Booth]], the Mother of [[The Salvation Army]] (b. [[1829]]) *[[October 20]]- [[Sir Richard Francis Burton]], Explorer, Linguist, Soldier. (b. [[1820]]) *[[October 26]] - [[Carlo Collodi]], Italian writer (b. [[1826]]) *[[November 3]] - [[Ulrich Ochsenbein]], [[member of the Swiss Federal Council]] (b. [[1811]]) *[[November 8]] - [[César Franck]], Belgian composer and organist (b. [[1822]]) *[[November 11]] - [[Charles-Marie David de Mayréna]], French adventurer and self-styled "King of Sedang" (b. [[1842]]) *[[November 23]] - King [[William III of the Netherlands]] (b. [[1817]]) *[[November 24]] - [[August Belmont, Sr.]], Prussian-born financier (b. [[1816]]) *[[December 15]] - [[Sitting Bull]], Native American chief, (b. ''c.''[[1831]]) *[[December 21]] - [[Johanne Luise Heiberg]], Danish actress (b. [[1812]]) *[[December 26]] - [[Heinrich Schliemann]], German archaeologist (b. [[1822]]) *[[December 31]] - [[Pancha Carrasco]], Costa Rican war heroine (b. [[1826]]) *''date unknown'' - ''[[Comanche (horse)|Comanche]],'' horse, sole survivor of [[George Armstrong Custer|Custer]]'s cavalry at the [[Battle of Little Bighorn]]. {{commonscat}} {{See also|:Category:1890 deaths}} ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:1890| ]] [[af:1890]] [[am:1890 እ.ኤ.አ.]] [[ar:1890]] [[an:1890]] [[ast:1890]] [[gn:1890]] [[az:1890]] [[bn:১৮৯০]] [[map-bms:1890]] [[be:1890]] [[be-x-old:1890]] [[bh:१८९०]] [[bs:1890]] [[br:1890]] [[bg:1890]] [[ca:1890]] [[cv:1890]] [[cs:1890]] [[co:1890]] [[cy:1890]] [[da:1890]] [[de:1890]] [[et:1890]] [[el:1890]] [[es:1890]] [[eo:1890]] [[eu:1890]] [[fa:۱۸۹۰ (میلادی)]] [[fo:1890]] [[hif:1890]] [[fr:1890]] [[fy:1890]] [[fur:1890]] [[ga:1890]] [[gd:1890]] [[gl:1890]] [[ko:1890년]] [[hy:1890]] [[hi:1890]] [[hr:1890.]] [[io:1890]] [[ilo:1890]] [[bpy:মারি ১৮৯০]] [[id:1890]] [[ia:1890]] [[os:1890]] [[is:1890]] [[it:1890]] [[he:1890]] [[jv:1890]] [[kn:೧೮೯೦]] [[ka:1890]] [[csb:1890]] [[sw:1890]] [[ht:1890 (almanak gregoryen)]] [[ku:1890]] [[la:1890]] [[lb:1890]] [[lt:1890 m.]] [[lij:1890]] [[hu:1890]] [[mk:1890]] [[mi:1890]] [[mr:इ.स. १८९०]] [[ms:1890]] [[nah:1890]] [[nl:1890]] [[new:ई सं १८९०]] [[ja:1890年]] [[nap:1890]] [[no:1890]] [[nn:1890]] [[nrm:1890]] [[nov:1890]] [[oc:1890]] [[uz:1890]] [[pi:१८९०]] [[nds:1890]] [[pl:1890]] [[pt:1890]] [[ksh:Joohr 1890]] [[ro:1890]] [[ru:1890 год]] [[se:1890]] [[sq:1890]] [[scn:1890]] [[simple:1890]] [[sk:1890]] [[sl:1890]] [[sr:1890]] [[sh:1890]] [[su:1890]] [[fi:1890]] [[sv:1890]] [[tl:1890]] [[ta:1890]] [[tt:1890]] [[te:1890]] [[tet:1890]] [[th:พ.ศ. 2433]] [[tr:1890]] [[uk:1890]] [[vec:1890]] [[wa:1890]] [[vls:1890]] [[zh-yue:1890年]] [[cbk-zam:1890]] [[bat-smg:1890]] [[zh:1890年]]