US and World History -- Year In Context
(In large part, dates are from  http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/dates)

1850's
1860's
1870's
1880's
1890's              90  91 92 9394 95 96  979899
1900's
1910's
1920's

1890

?? ?? 1890 First skyscraper in New York City was the World Building, 26 stories
10 02 1890 Boris Pasternak, author of "Dr. Zhivago", was born
22 02 1890 John Jacob Astor, the millionaire, died
02 07 1890 The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed
03 07 1890 Idaho became the 43rd state
10 07 1890 Wyoming becomes the 44th state
29 07 1890 Vincent Van Gogh, artist, died in Auvers, France
06 08 1890 Cy Young pitches first major league game
22 11 1890 Charles de Gaulle born
15 12 1890 Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest
29 12 1890 Massacre at Wounded Knee, SD

1891

18 03 1891 first use of Paris to London telephone line
24 08 1891 Movie camera patented
10 11 1891 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)

1892

?? ?? 1892 Ellis Island, New York, is opned as an immigrant station.
?? ?? 1892 Rudolf Diesel invents internal combustion engine that runs on oil
11 03 1892 1st public game of basketball
26 03 1892 Walt Whitman, poet, died
19 04 1892 Charles Duryea takes the 1st American-made auto out for a spin
17 08 1892 Mae West, actress, was born
18 10 1892 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago - New York)

1893

14 01 1893 English Labour Party founded
17 01 1893 the Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
19 06 1893 Lizzie Borden acquitted of killing her parents with an ax
06 07 1893 King George V of England and Victoria Mary of Teck are wed
28 10 1893 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky debuts his 6th Symphony, the "Pathetique" in St. Petersburg
26 12 1893 Mao Tse-tung, revolutionary, was born in Hunan Province

1894

13 03 1894 "Striptease" introduced, Paris
?? ?? 1894 In France, Dreyfus accused of spying for Germany. He is imprisoned in French Guyana.

1895

17 04 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
06 05 1895 Rudolph Valentino, the silent screen actor, was born
19 05 1895 Oscar Wilde released from Pentonville Prison
11 06 1895 1st auto race
21 09 1895 1st auto manufacturer opens -- Duryea Motor Wagon Company
24 09 1895 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)
19 11 1895 the pencil was invented
26 11 1895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed
27 11 1895 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize
28 11 1895 The first automobile race was held from Chicago to Waukegan through the snow; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner averaged 7 MPH
03 12 1895 Robert Louis Stevenson, author, died in Samoa

1896

?? ?? 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson establishes hated "separate but equal" provision
04 01 1896 Utah becomes the 45th state
23 04 1896 The vitascope system for projecting onto a screen
30 05 1896 first US auto accident
04 06 1896 Henry Ford takes a test drive of his car through the streets of Detroit
27 04 1896 Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon
08 07 1896 William Jennings Bryan makes his 'cross of gold' speech at the Democratic Convention in Chicago
04 09 1896 Apache leader Geronomino surrenders
01 10 1896 Yosemite becomes a National Park
08 10 1896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks
15 11 1896 Niagara Falls power plant startup

1897

22 05 1897 the official opening of the Blackwall tunnel under the Thames
16 08 1897 the Tate Gallery in London was opened
25 09 1897 William Faulkner, the author, was born

1898

15 02 1898 USS Maine blown up in harbor at Havana, Cuba
31 03 1898  Ten American painters break away from National Academy of Design and Society of American Artists and exhibit their work independently. The American Impressionist group became known as "The Ten"
24 04 1898 Spain declares war on the United States
25 04 1898 US declares war on Spain
10 06 1898 US Marines land at Cuba in Spanish-American War
12 06 1898 Philippines gains its independence from Spain
01 07 1898 Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
07 07 1898 Hawaii annexed to the US
18 10 1898 The American flag was raised in Puerto Rico shortly before Spain formally gave control to the U.S
21 11 1898 Rene Magritte, artist, was born
10 12 1898 a treaty was signed in Paris ending the Spanish-American War
21 12 1898 Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium

1899

24 01 1899 the rubber heel was patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan
09 09 1899 Alfred Dreyfus went on trial a second time for disclosing French secrets
13 09 1899 While in New York, Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality [1]

Notes:

1)

From : Erik Olsen
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002
 
[Your page states:]
14 09 1899 While in New York, Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality.

I believe it was 9/13 according to the new york times. I have not seen the
original article but am attempting to find it.

erik

Thanks,

 Erik Olsen
 Graduate Research Assistant
 Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
 3500 Transportation Research Plaza (0535)
 Blacksburg, VA 24061
 

From: Natasha
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002

What a trip! Hey, thanks Erik for the correction. I really appreciate it.

Natasha

updated 10/03/2003