1891

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1888 1889 1890 - 1891 - 1892 1893 1894 \n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* January 1 – Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany\n* January 20 - James Hogg becomes the first native Texan to be governor of that state.\n* January 29 - Liliuokalani proclaimed Queen of Hawaii\n* March 9 – 12 – Powerful storm off England’s south coast; 14 ships sink\n* March 17 - The British steamship SS Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar, killing 574.\n* April 1 - The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.\n* May 1 - Nine killed and thirty wounded when troops fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of eight-hour workday in Fourmies, France.\n* May 20 - First public display of Thomas Alva Edison's prototype kinetoscope (shown at Edison's Laboratory for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs).\n* June 16 - John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.\n* June 21 - First long-distance transmission of Alternating current by the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado by Lucien and Paul Nunn.\n* August 27 - France and Russia conclude defensive alliance.\n* October 1 - In California, Stanford University opens its doors\n* December 29 - Thomas Edison patents the radio \n* Building of The Trans-Siberian Railroad begins (ends 1917)\n* The Brahmin teacher and nationalist, Bal Bangadhar tilak, begins agitation for Indian home Rule\n* Civil War in Chile\n* Kicking Bear surrenders\n* Earthquake in Japan kills 25.000\n* Famine in Russia\n* Maria Sklodowska enters Sorbonne University\n* New Scotland Yard becomes the HQ of London Metropolitan Police\n* Swiss Army Knife\n* Winter - James Naismith invents Basketball\n* The Tobacco Protest occurs in Iran

Births

\n* January 8 - Walther Bothe, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954 (d. 1957)\n* February 9 - Ronald Colman, actor (d. 1958)\n* February 11 - J W Hearne English cricket player.\n* February 27 - David Sarnoff, broadcasting pioneer (d. 1971)\n* March 10 - Sam Jaffe, actor (d. 1984)\n* March 19 - Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974)\n* March 24 - John Knittel, dramatist (d. 1970)\n* March 29 - Yvan Goll, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1950)\n* April 2 - Max Ernst, painter (d. 1976)\n* April 13 - Nella Larsen, African-American novelist.\n* April 17 - George Adamski, UFO traveler\n* April 23 - Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer\n* May 15 - Mikhail Bulgakov, writer (d. 1940)\n* May 16 - Richard Tauber, tenor (d. 1948)\n* May 18 - Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (d. 1970)\n* May 19 - Oswald Boelcke, World War I fighter ace (d. 1916)\n* May 22 - Eddie Edwards, jazz musician (d. 1963)\n* May 24 - William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar\n* June 9 - Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter\n* June 20 - John A. Costello, second Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1976)\n* June 30 - Man Mountain Dean, professional wrestler (d. 1953)\n* September 12 - Don Pedro Albizu Campos, advocate for Puerto Rican independence (d. 1965)\n* September 14 - William F. Friedman, cryptanalyst\n* October 24 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic\n* November 14 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine, 1923\n* November 15 - Vincent Astor, American philanthropist (d. 1959)\n* November 15 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshal \n* December 26 - Henry Miller, writer

Deaths

\n* January 5 - Emma Abbott, american opera singer\n* January 21 - Calixa Lavallée, composer\n*March 3 – Leonard Jerome, American entrepreneur, grandfather of Sir Winston Churchill\n* April 7 - Phineas Taylor Barnum, circus impresario\n* July 4 - Hannibal Hamlin, US politician.\n*August 14 - Sarah Childress Polk, former First Lady of the United States.\n* September 15 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author of Oblomov.\n* September 28 - Herman Melville, American novelist.\n* October 6 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish Nationalist leader.\n* October 15 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, writer.\n* November 10 - Arthur Rimbaud, poet \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nzh-cn:1891年