
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1888 1889 1890 - 1891 - 1892 1893 1894 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century
|} 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ==Events== * January 1 - Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany * January 20 - James Hogg becomes the first native Texas to be governor of that state. * January 29 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii proclaimed Queen of Hawaii * March 3 - The International Copyright Act of 1891 was passed by the Fifty-first United States Congress of the United States of America * March 9 - March 12 - Powerful storm off England's south coast; 14 ships sink * March 17 - The British steamship SS ''Utopia'' sinks off the coast of Gibraltar, killing 574. * April 1 - The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago. * May 1 - Nine killed and thirty wounded when troops fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of eight-hour workday in Fourmies, France. * May 5 - The Music Hall in New York (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor. * May 20 - First public display of Thomas Alva Edison prototype kinetoscope (shown at Edison's Laboratory for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs). * June 16 - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott becomes Canada's third Prime Minister of Canada. * June 21 - First long-distance transmission of Alternating current by the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado by Lucien and Paul Nunn. * August 27 - France and Russia conclude defensive alliance. * October 1 - In California, Stanford University opens its doors * December 29 - Thomas Edison patents the radio * Building of The Trans-Siberian Railroad begins (ends 1917) * The Brahmin teacher and nationalist, Bal Bangadhar tilak, begins agitation for Indian home Rule * Civil War in Chile * Kicking Bear surrenders * Earthquake in Japan kills 25.000 * Famine in Russia * Maria Sklodowska-Curie enters Sorbonne University * New Scotland Yard becomes the HQ of London Metropolitan Police * Swiss Army Knife * Winter - James Naismith invents Basketball * The Tobacco Protest occurs in Iran ==Births== * January 8 - Walther Bothe, German physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics (d. 1957) * February 9 - Ronald Colman, English actor (d. 1958) * February 11 - Jack Hearne (John William Hearne) English cricketer (d. 1965). * February 27 - David Sarnoff, Russian-born broadcasting pioneer (d. 1971) * March 10 - Sam Jaffe (actor), American actor (d. 1984) * March 19 - Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974) * March 24 - John Knittel, dramatist (d. 1970) * March 29 - Yvan Goll, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1950) * April 2 - Max Ernst, German painter (d. 1976) * April 13 - Nella Larsen, American novelist (d. 1964) * April 17 - George Adamski, Polish-born UFO traveler (d. 1965) * April 23 - Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer (d. 1953) * May 15 - Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (d. 1940) * May 16 - Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (d. 1948) * May 18 - Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (d. 1970) * May 19 - Oswald Boelcke, German World War I pilot (d. 1916) * May 22 - Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (d. 1963) * May 23 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974) * May 24 - William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar (d. 1971) * June 9 - Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (d. 1964) * June 20 - John A. Costello, second Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1976) * June 21 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (d. 1966) * June 30 - Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (d. 1953) * July 5 - John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987) * September 12 - Don Pedro Albizu Campos, advocate of Puerto Rican independence (d. 1965) * September 14 - William F. Friedman, American cryptographer (d. 1969) * September 16 - Karl Dönitz, Reichspräsident (d. 1980) * September 26 - Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (d. 1968) * October 24 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic (d. 1961) * November 14 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine (d. 1941) * November 15 - Vincent Astor, American philanthropist (d. 1959) * November 15 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (d. 1944) * December 26 - Henry Miller, American writer (d. 1980) ==Deaths== * January 5 - Emma Abbott, American opera singer (b. 1849) * January 16 - Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836) * January 21 - Calixa Lavallée, Canadian composer (b. 1842) * March 15 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823) * March 15 - Joseph Bazalgette , English civil engineer (b. 1819) * April 7 - Phineas Taylor Barnum, American circus impresario (b. 1810) * May 8 - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Russian-born author and theosophist (b. 1831) * July 4 - Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States (b. 1809) *August 12 - James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (b. 1819) *August 14 - Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (b. 1803) * September 15 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812) * September 28 - Herman Melville, American novelist (b. 1819) * October 6 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist leader (b. 1846) * October 15 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer (b. 1837) * November 10 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (b. 1854) ==Fictional events of the year== Sherlock Holmes is believed to have died in the Reichenbach fall with the "Napoleon of crime", Professor James Moriarty. 1891 la:1891 os:1891 scn:1891
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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1888 1889 1890 - 1891 - 1892 1893 1894 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century
|} 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ==Events== * January 1 - Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany * January 20 - James Hogg becomes the first native Texas to be governor of that state. * January 29 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii proclaimed Queen of Hawaii * March 3 - The International Copyright Act of 1891 was passed by the Fifty-first United States Congress of the United States of America * March 9 - March 12 - Powerful storm off England's south coast; 14 ships sink * March 17 - The British steamship SS ''Utopia'' sinks off the coast of Gibraltar, killing 574. * April 1 - The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago. * May 1 - Nine killed and thirty wounded when troops fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of eight-hour workday in Fourmies, France. * May 5 - The Music Hall in New York (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor. * May 20 - First public display of Thomas Alva Edison prototype kinetoscope (shown at Edison's Laboratory for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs). * June 16 - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott becomes Canada's third Prime Minister of Canada. * June 21 - First long-distance transmission of Alternating current by the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado by Lucien and Paul Nunn. * August 27 - France and Russia conclude defensive alliance. * October 1 - In California, Stanford University opens its doors * December 29 - Thomas Edison patents the radio * Building of The Trans-Siberian Railroad begins (ends 1917) * The Brahmin teacher and nationalist, Bal Bangadhar tilak, begins agitation for Indian home Rule * Civil War in Chile * Kicking Bear surrenders * Earthquake in Japan kills 25.000 * Famine in Russia * Maria Sklodowska-Curie enters Sorbonne University * New Scotland Yard becomes the HQ of London Metropolitan Police * Swiss Army Knife * Winter - James Naismith invents Basketball * The Tobacco Protest occurs in Iran ==Births== * January 8 - Walther Bothe, German physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics (d. 1957) * February 9 - Ronald Colman, English actor (d. 1958) * February 11 - Jack Hearne (John William Hearne) English cricketer (d. 1965). * February 27 - David Sarnoff, Russian-born broadcasting pioneer (d. 1971) * March 10 - Sam Jaffe (actor), American actor (d. 1984) * March 19 - Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974) * March 24 - John Knittel, dramatist (d. 1970) * March 29 - Yvan Goll, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1950) * April 2 - Max Ernst, German painter (d. 1976) * April 13 - Nella Larsen, American novelist (d. 1964) * April 17 - George Adamski, Polish-born UFO traveler (d. 1965) * April 23 - Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer (d. 1953) * May 15 - Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (d. 1940) * May 16 - Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (d. 1948) * May 18 - Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (d. 1970) * May 19 - Oswald Boelcke, German World War I pilot (d. 1916) * May 22 - Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (d. 1963) * May 23 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974) * May 24 - William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar (d. 1971) * June 9 - Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (d. 1964) * June 20 - John A. Costello, second Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1976) * June 21 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (d. 1966) * June 30 - Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (d. 1953) * July 5 - John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987) * September 12 - Don Pedro Albizu Campos, advocate of Puerto Rican independence (d. 1965) * September 14 - William F. Friedman, American cryptographer (d. 1969) * September 16 - Karl Dönitz, Reichspräsident (d. 1980) * September 26 - Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (d. 1968) * October 24 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic (d. 1961) * November 14 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine (d. 1941) * November 15 - Vincent Astor, American philanthropist (d. 1959) * November 15 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (d. 1944) * December 26 - Henry Miller, American writer (d. 1980) ==Deaths== * January 5 - Emma Abbott, American opera singer (b. 1849) * January 16 - Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836) * January 21 - Calixa Lavallée, Canadian composer (b. 1842) * March 15 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823) * March 15 - Joseph Bazalgette , English civil engineer (b. 1819) * April 7 - Phineas Taylor Barnum, American circus impresario (b. 1810) * May 8 - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Russian-born author and theosophist (b. 1831) * July 4 - Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States (b. 1809) *August 12 - James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (b. 1819) *August 14 - Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (b. 1803) * September 15 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812) * September 28 - Herman Melville, American novelist (b. 1819) * October 6 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist leader (b. 1846) * October 15 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer (b. 1837) * November 10 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (b. 1854) ==Fictional events of the year== Sherlock Holmes is believed to have died in the Reichenbach fall with the "Napoleon of crime", Professor James Moriarty. 1891 la:1891 os:1891 scn:1891
1891
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