- February 20
- Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire. [1]
- March 4
- The 1.5-mile long Forth Railway Bridge of Scotland is completed, the world's first major steel bridge, with girders spanning 1710 feet. [5] [402.73]
- March 20
- German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck. [1]
- March 21
- Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law. [1]
- April 6
- French troops under Captain Archinard occupy Segu, West-Sudan. [1]
- April 14
- Pan American Day-first conference of American states (Washington DC). [1]
- April 27
- French troops under Captain Archinard occupy Oussébougou, West Sudan. [1]
- May 13
- Lord Salisbury (England) offers Germany Heligoland in exchange for Zanzibar, Uganda and Equatoria. [1]
- May 17
- Comic Cuts, first weekly comic paper, published in London, created by Alfred Harmsworth. [1] [55.42]
- May 24
- Caprivi succeeds Bismarck as chancellor of Germany. [1]
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- Geo Train and Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma, Washington, USA. [1]
- Tivoli Theater of Varities opens in London, England. [1]
- June 7
- The Comic Cuts weekly paper introduces the first true comic strip. [55.42]
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- The Kakangari meteorite falls in India. [523.93]
- July 1
- Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable. [5]
- July 2
- Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits industrial monopolies in the USA. [1]
- July 3
- Idaho is admitted to the USA as 43rd state. [446.58]
- July 27
- Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh shoots himself. [129]
- July 29
- Death of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, at age 37, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. [1] [129]
- August 6
- First use of electric chair execution, on convicted murderer William Kemmler, at Auburn Prison, New York. [55.53] (John Hart [1])
- August 9
- Great Britain cedes Heligoland to Germany in exchange for protectorate of Witu in Kenya and island of Zanzibar. [1187.163]
- August 16
- Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, is named US minister to Liberia. [1]
- September 16
- Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince boards a train at Dijon for Paris, France with his invented film projector, for demonstration to the Secretary of the Paris Opéra. He disappears without a trace. [55.62]
- September 19
- Turkish frigate Ertogrul burns off of Japan, kills 540. [1]
- September 24
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy. [5]
- October 1
- General Grant National Park and Yosemite National Park (1189 square miles) are established in California. [1] [5] [416.72] [439.5] [459.52]
- November 4
- Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate. [1]
- November 20
- Pope Leo XIII issues encyclical on slavery in the missions. [1]
- December 15
- In South Dakota, Pine Ridge reservation police kill Sioux chief Sitting Bull Hunkpapa, while trying to arrest him. [1] [129]
- December 26
- King Mwanga of Uganda signs contract with East Africa Company. [1]
- December 29
- The U.S. 7th Cavalry massacres 146 Sioux Indians (nearly half women and children) at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. 25 cavalry men are killed. [1] [129] (over 200 Indians killed [648.40])
- December 31
- Ellis Island (New York City, New York) opens as a US immigration depot. [1]
1891
- January 1
- French troops occupy Nioro, West-Sudan, 3000 killed. [1]
- January 20
- David Kalakahua, Emperor of Hawaii, dies. [1]
- January 27
- Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, USA. [1]
- January 29
- Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii. [5]
- February 18
- Captain Archinard's army fights with Nyamina of Niger in West-Sudan. [1]
- February 24
- French troops under Captain Archinard occupy Diéna, West Sudan. [1]
- March 17
- British steamer Utopia sinks off Gibraltar, killing 574. [1]
- March 18
- Britain is linked to the European continent by telephone. [1]
- April 1
- London, England to Paris, France telephone connection opens. [1]
- April 23
- Jews are expelled from Moscow Russia. [1]
- May 5
- Carnegie Hall opens in New York City with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor. [1]
- May 7
- Battle in Bunyoro: Captain F Lugard stops Muslim rebellion, 300 killed. [1]
- May 12
- Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo, Suriname. [1]
- May 15
- British Central African Protectorate (later Malawi) is established. [1]
- Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Rerum novarum. [1]
- May 16
- George A Hormel and Company introduces Spam meat product. [1]
- May 22
- In New Jersey, USA, Thomas Edison makes the first public display of his Kinetoscope projection of a film to the US National Federation of Women's Clubs, with an audience of 147, [1] [55.62] (May 20 [5])
- May 31
- Work on trans-Siberian railway begins. [1]
- July 7
- Travelers cheque is patented. [1]
- July
- In Monte Carlo, Charles Deville Wells of England wins about 1 million francs at roulette. [565.89]
- August 19
- William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum. [1]
- August 24
- Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera. [1] [5]
- September 1
- First police force to adopt use of fingerprints for criminal investigation: La Plata Division of Provincial Police of Buenos Aires, Argentina [55.73]
- October 12
- Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated. [1]
- October 28
- In Mino-Owari, Japan, an approximate magnitude 8 earthquake occurs. Over 7,000 deaths. The earthquake caused damage over a 4200 square mile area. 130,000 houses were destroyed. [1] [53]
- December 29
- Thomas A. Edison is granted a US patent for "transmission of signals electrically" (radio). [1] [457]
1892
- January 5
- First successful auroral photograph made. [1]
- January 7
- Mine explosion kills 100 in Krebs, Oklahoma; blacks trying to help rescue white survivors are driven away with guns. [1]
- January 11
- William D McCoy of Indiana is appointed US minister to Liberia. [1]
- January 24
- Battle at Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack British missionaries. [1]
- January 30
- Captain Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out. [1]
- February 1
- Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion. (This begins the use of the "400" to describe the socially elite.) [1]
- February 2
- Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter (Baltimore, USA). [1]
- February 3
- Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin. [1]
- February 7
- In Verkhoyansk, Russia, an Asian record cold temperature of -90 degrees F is recorded. [54]
- February 24
- In Imperial Valley, California, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurs. At the old Carrizo station in San Diego County, all adobe buildings are destroyed. [53]
- February 29
- Britain and US sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea. [1]
- March 15
- First escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (New York City, New York), for the Reno Inclined Elevator. [1] [55.59]
- New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine). [1]
- April 12
- George C Blickensderfer patents portable typewriter. [1]
- April 15
- General Electric Company forms and is incorporated in New York. [1] [5]
- May 15
- Arthur Hodister, British ivory seller (Heart of Darkness), is murdered. [1]
- May 19
- Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer. [1]
- May 20
- George Sampson patents clothes dryer. [1]
- Triple Alliance between Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary forms. [1]
- May 22
- Dr Washington Sheffield invents toothpaste tube. [1]
- May 28
- Sierra Club is formed by John Muir in San Francisco, California, USA for conservation of nature. [1]
- June 18
- Macademia nuts are first planted in Hawaii. [1]
- July 6
- Striking steelworkers in Homestead, Pennsylvania, USA fire on scabs, killing 7. [1]
- July 7
- Andres Bonifacio establishes the revolutionary secret society Kataastaasan Kagalanggalang Katipunan, with aim being to liberate the Philippines from Spain. [548.100]
- July
- First conviction on evidence of fingerprints: Francisca Rojas, for killing her two children, trying to frame neighbor Velasquez, in Necochea, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. [55.73]
- October 18
- First commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-New York). [1]
- October 31
- Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. [5]
- November 8
- Grover Cleveland (Democrat) is elected President of the USA. [1]
- December 1
- Joseph Lippens, Belgian lieutenant in Congo, is murdered. [1]
- December 18
- The Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg holds the first performance of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker. [1] [5]
- December 20
- Pneumatic automobile tire is patented, in Syracuse, New York, USA. [1]
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