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1890 (MDCCCXC ) was acommon year starting on Wednesday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Monday of theJulian calendar , the 1890th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 90th year of the19th century , and the 1st year of the1890s decade. As of the start of 1890, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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January 25 :Nellie Bly , 1890May 30 :Cleveland Arcade .June 1 :Herman Hollerith .July 29 :Vincent van Gogh .November 4 – The first deep level London Underground (Tube) Railway, theCity and South London Railway , opens officially.November 21 –Edward King ,Anglican bishop of Lincoln , is convicted of usingritualistic practices .[ 13] November 23 – KingWilliam III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir, and his daughterPrincess Wilhelmina becomes Queen, causing the end of the personal union of thrones withLuxembourg (which requires a male heir) so thatAdolphe, Duke of Nassau becomesGrand Duke of Luxembourg .November 29 November –Scotland Yard , headquarters of theMetropolitan Police Service , moves to a building on London'sVictoria Embankment , asNew Scotland Yard .University of Denver University Hall, built in 1890Thefolding carton box is invented byRobert Gair , aBrooklyn printer who developed production of paper-board boxes in1879 . The United States city ofBoise, Idaho , drills the firstgeothermal well. Brown trout are introduced into the upperFirehole River , inYellowstone National Park .High School Cadets John Philip Sousa .William II of Prussia opposes Bismarck's attempt to renew the law outlawing theSocial Democratic Party .Blackwall Buildings ,Whitechapel , notedphilanthropic housing, is built in theEast End of London .English archaeologistFlinders Petrie excavates atTell el-Hesi ,Palestine (mistakenly identified asTel Lachish ), the first scientific excavation of an archaeological site in theHoly Land , during which he discovers howtells are formed. Americangeostrategist Alfred Thayer Mahan publishes his influential bookThe Influence of Sea Power upon History , 1660–1783 Francis Galton announces a statistical demonstration of the uniqueness and classifiability of individual humanfingerprints .[ 14] Japanese tractor andiron pipe brand ,Kubota founded inOsaka , Japan.[ 15] Emerson Electric , anAmerican electronics industry giant, is founded inMissouri .[ 16] Kurt Tucholsky Néstor Guillén Vyacheslav Molotov Nancy Elizabeth Prophet Eugeniusz Baziak March 1 –Theresa Bernstein , Polish-born American artist and writer (d.2002 )March 4 –Norman Bethune , Canadian doctor and humanitarian (d.1939 )March 8 –Eugeniusz Baziak , PolishRoman Catholic archbishop (d.1962 )March 9 (new style) –Vyacheslav Molotov ,Soviet politician (d.1986 )March 11 –Vannevar Bush , American engineer, inventor and politician (d.1960 )March 19 –Nancy Elizabeth Prophet , African-American artist known for her sculpture (d.1960 )March 20 March 26 –Aaron S. Merrill , American admiral (d.1961 )March 28 –Paul Whiteman , American bandleader (d.1967 )March 31 –Lawrence Bragg , English physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1971 )Clelia Lollini Ho Chi Minh Stan Laurel Frank Forde Rose Kennedy H. P. Lovecraft Colonel Sanders Agatha Christie Stanley Holloway Groucho Marx Dwight D. Eisenhower Fritz Lang Hermann Joseph Muller October 1 October 2 –Groucho Marx , American comedian (d.1977 )October 3 –Emilio Portes Gil , Mexican teacher, journalist, lawyer and substitutePresident of Mexico , 1928–1930 (d.1978 )[ 19] October 8 October 9 –Aimee Semple McPherson , Canadian-American Pentecostal Evangelist (d.1944 )October 13 –Conrad Richter , American novelist and short story writer (d.1968 )October 14 –Dwight D. Eisenhower , US general and 34thPresident of the United States (d.1969 )October 16 October 17 –Roy Kilner , English cricketer (d.1928 )October 20 –Sherman Minton , American politician andAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.1965 )October 23 –Abdul Hamid Karami , 16th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d.1950 )October 25 –Floyd Bennett , American aviator and explorer (d.1928 )October 29 –Hans-Valentin Hube , German army general (d.1944 )Elpidio Quirino Charles De Gaulle El Lissitzky December 5 December 6 –Dion Fortune , British occultist (d.1946 )December 8 –Bohuslav Martinů , Czech composer (d.1959 )December 10 December 11 –Carlos Gardel ,Argentine tango singer (d.1935 )December 17 –Prince Joachim of Prussia (suicide1920 )December 20 –Jaroslav Heyrovský , Czech chemist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1967 )December 21 –Hermann Joseph Muller , American geneticist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.1967 )December 25 –Robert Ripley , American collector of odd facts (d.1949 )December 26 –Konstantinos Georgakopoulos , Greek lawyer and professor, 152ndPrime Minister of Greece (d.1973 )December 30 –Lanoe Hawker , British fighter pilot (d.1916 )KingAmadeus I of Spain Gyula Andrássy Joseph Merrick January 2 –Julián Gayarre , Spanish opera singer (b.1844 )January 7 –Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , Empress Consort ofWilliam I, German Emperor (b.1811 )January 18 – KingAmadeo I of Spain (b.1845 )February 18 –Gyula Andrássy , Hungarian statesman, 4thPrime Minister of Hungary (b.1823 )February 22 January 23 –Emily Jane Pfeiffer , Welsh poet and philanthropist (b.1827 )March 3 –Innocenzo da Berzo , ItalianCapuchin friar and blessed (b.1844 )March 7 –Karl Rudolf Friedenthal , Prussian statesman (b.1827 )March 9 – SirMangaldas Nathubhoy , Indian politician (b.1832 )March 16 –Princess Zorka of Montenegro (b.1864 )March 23 –Mary Jane Katzmann , Canadian historian (b.1828 )March 27 –Carl Jacob Löwig , German chemist (b.1803 )Vincent van Gogh Carlo Collodi John Boyle O'Reilly Richard Francis Burton William III of the Netherlands Heinrich Schliemann July 7 –Henri Nestlé , Swiss confectioner and the founder of Nestlé (b.1814 )July 9 –Clinton B. Fisk , Americanphilanthropist andtemperance activist (b.1828 )July 13 July 15 –Gottfried Keller , Swiss writer (b.1819 )July 25 –Shaikh Mohamed bin Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa , Ruler of Bahrain (b.1813 )July 29 –Vincent van Gogh , Dutch painter (b.1853 )August 6 –William Kemmler , American murderer, first person executed in theelectric chair (b.1860 )August 10 –John Boyle O'Reilly , Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer (b.1844 )August 11 –John Henry Newman , English Roman Catholic Cardinal (b.1801 )August 18 –August von Bulmerincq ,Baltic German legal scholar (b.1822 )August 27 –Juan Seguín , American soldier and politician (b.1806 )October 4 –Catherine Booth , Mother ofThe Salvation Army (b.1829 )October 17 –Julian Gutowski , Polish politician (b.1823 )October 20 –Richard Francis Burton , English explorer, linguist, soldier (b.1821 )October 26 –Carlo Collodi , Italian writer (The Adventures of Pinocchio 1826 )November 3 –Ulrich Ochsenbein ,member of the Swiss Federal Council (b.1811 )November 4 –Félix du Temple de la Croix , French Army Captain & aviation pioneer (b.1823 )November 7 –Comanche , American horse, survivor ofCuster 's cavalry at theBattle of the Little Bighorn November 8 –César Franck , Belgian composer and organist (b.1822 )November 11 –Marie-Charles David de Mayréna , French adventurer and self-styledKing of Sedang (b.1842 )November 21 –Sherman Conant , American soldier and politician (b.1839 )November 23 – KingWilliam III of the Netherlands (b.1817 )November 24 –August Belmont , Sr., Prussian-born financier (b.1816 )December 10 –Ludolph Anne Jan Wilt Sloet van de Beele ,Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b.1806 )December 15 –Sitting Bull , Native American chief (b. c.1831 )December 21 –Johanne Luise Heiberg , Danish actress (b.1812 )December 23 –Alphonse Lecointe , French general and politician (b.1817 )December 26 –Heinrich Schliemann , German archaeologist (b.1822 )December 31 –Pancha Carrasco , Costa Rican war heroine (b.1826 )^ "This Day in History: 1890" .History.com . A&E Television Networks. Archived fromthe original on February 9, 2010. RetrievedOctober 27, 2009 .^ Werner Meyer-Larsen (2000).Germany, Inc: the new German juggernaut and its challenge to world business ISBN 9780471353577 . RetrievedJuly 16, 2013 . ^ The South African Railways – Historical Survey . Editor George Hart, Publisher Bill Hart, Sponsored by Dorbyl Ltd., Published c. 1978.^ "Asuka Area, Nara" .Iwate University . RetrievedJanuary 1, 2019 .^ Hermann, Christoph:Capitalism and the Political Economy of Work Time , p. 113 ^ Florence, Cheyenne."The Arcade - Cleveland's Crystal Palace" .Cleveland Historical . RetrievedJuly 20, 2025 . ^ Merrillees, Scott (2015).Jakarta: Portraits of a Capital 1950–1980 ISBN 9786028397308 ^ Page, Norman (1991).An Oscar Wilde Chronology . Macmillan. p. 40. ^ "Dixon, George (Little Chocolate)" .Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. RetrievedJanuary 23, 2012 .^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 317– 318.ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 ^ "History of UNT | 125th Anniversary" .125.unt.edu . RetrievedApril 5, 2017 .^ Crouch, Tom D."Clément Ader" .Encyclopædia Britannica . RetrievedMarch 3, 2011 . ^ "Read And Others V. The Lord Bishop Of Lincoln: Court Of The Archbishop Of Canterbury, Lambeth Palace, Nov. 21".The Times ^ Galton, Francis (1891)."The Patterns in Thumb and Finger Marks – On Their Arrangement into Naturally Distinct Classes, the Permanence of the Papillary Ridges that Make Them, and the Resemblance of Their Classes to Ordinary Genera" .Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 182 :1– 23.doi :10.1098/rstb.1891.0001 JSTOR 91733 . ^ "1890 › 1926" .Kubota Virtual Museum . RetrievedMarch 16, 2023 .^ "Emerson Company History" .emerson.com . Emerson Electric. RetrievedMarch 4, 2021 .^ Nishida, Hiroshi."Imperial Japanese Navy, Totsuka Michitarō" . RetrievedApril 28, 2025 . ^ "Agatha Christie | Britannica" .www.britannica.com . RetrievedFebruary 18, 2022 .^ "Emilio Portes Gil" (in Spanish). Busca Biografias. RetrievedMay 31, 2019 .^ "Biography – CHAUVEAU, PIERRE-JOSEPH-OLIVIER – Volume XI (1881-1890) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography" .^ "Brylinski Pawel" .Astro-Databank . June 27, 2016. RetrievedNovember 13, 2021 .Further reading and year books [ edit ] 1890 Annual Cyclopedia online ; highly detailed coverage of "Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry" (1891); compilation of facts and primary documents; worldwide coverage.
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