Major Events
- Jan 1 French troops occupy Nioro, West-Sudan, 3000 killed
- Jan 26 Oscar Wilde's tragic play "Duchess of Padua" premieres at the Broadway Theater in NYC
- Jan 27 Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania
- Jan 29 Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch
- Jan 31 First attempt of a republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto, Portugal
- Feb 6 1st great train robbery by the Dalton Gang: Southern Pacific #17, near Alila (now Earlimart), California
- Feb 9 1st shipment of asparagus arrives in San Francisco from Sacramento
- Feb 15 AIK is founded at Biblioteksgatan 8 in Stockholm by Isidor Behrens.
- Feb 18 Capt Archinard's army fights with Nyamina of Niger in West-Sudan
- Feb 24 French troops under Captain Archinard occupy Diena West Sudan
- More 1891 Events
1891 in Film & TV
- May 20 1st public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope to members of the National Federation of Women's Club
1891 in Music
- May 5 Music Hall (now Carnegie Hall) opens in New York City, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as guest conductor of the New York Music Society Orchestra
1891 in Sport
- Mar 28 1st world weightlifting championship won by Edward Lawrence in London, England
- Dec 21 First game of basketball, based on rules created by James Naismith, played by 18 students in Springfield, Massachusetts
José P. Laurel
Bugs Moran
Karl Dönitz
James Chadwick
Frederick Banting
Erwin Rommel
Ronald Colman
Fanny Brice
Sergei Prokofiev
Cole Porter
R. Norris Williams
Elizabeth Ryan
Cy DennenyMore People Born in 1891
George Bancroft
William Tecumseh Sherman
P. T. Barnum
John A. Macdonald
Herman Melville
Arthur RimbaudMore 1891 Deaths
Famous Weddings in 1891
- Mar 21 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia it started with an accusation of pig-stealing & lasted 20 years
- Mar 24 56th UK Prime Minister Bonar Law (32) weds Annie Robley at West Free Church in Helensburgh, Scotland
- Jul 8 Future US President Warren G. Harding (25) weds American newspaper publisher and divorcée Florence Kling DeWolfe (30) in Marion, Ohio, until his death in 1923
Claude Monet
Giuseppe Verdi
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Benjamin Harrison
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
Wilhelm II