Major Events
- Mar 18 German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck resigns after 19 years after a disagreement with German Emperor Wilhelm II
- Aug 6 At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the 1st person to be executed by electric chair
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1890 in Sport
- Jun 27 Canadian boxer George Dixon becomes first black world champion when he stops English bantamweight champion Edwin "Nunc" Wallace in 18 rounds in London, England
Did You Know?
The President of the Latter-day Saints Wilford Woodruff issues a manifesto advising members that the teaching and practice of polygamy should be abandoned
Alfred Jodl
Ho Chi Minh
Colonel Sanders
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Elpidio Quirino
Charles de Gaulle
Stan Laurel
Groucho Marx
Maurice McLoughlin
Joe Malone
Casey StengelMore People Born in 1890
Fun Fact About 1890
Journalist Nellie Bly beats the fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg around the world by 8 days (72 days)
Christopher Latham Sholes
Henri Nestlé
Vincent van Gogh
Dion Boucicault
Sitting Bull
Heinrich SchliemannMore 1890 Deaths
Articles About 1890
Famous Weddings in 1890
- Jan 2 Physicist J. J. Thomson (33) weds Rose Elisabeth Paget
- Apr 14 Painter Pierre Auguste Renoir (49) weds Aline Victorine Charigot
- Jul 12 Welsh-American explorer Henry Morton Stanley (59) marries English artist Dorothy Tennant (46) at Westminster Abbey
Claude Monet
Giuseppe Verdi
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Benjamin Harrison
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
Wilhelm II