1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar).
Events
- January 2 - Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the U.S. White House.
- January 9 - Phi Beta Sigma fraternity founded
- January 25 - The United Mine Workers of America is founded.
- January 25 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
- March 1 - Léon Bourgeois succeeds Ernest Constans as French Minister of the Interior
- March 4 - The longest bridge in Britain, the Forth Bridge (1,710 ft) in Scotland is opened.
- March 20 - Wilhelm II of Germany fires Otto von Bismarck
- March 27 - A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 people and injuring 200.
- May 12 - The first ever official County Championship match begins. Yorkshire beat Gloucestershire by eight wickets at Bristol. George Ulyett scores the first century in the competition.
- June 1 - The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
- July 1 - Britain receives Zanzibar from Germany in exchange of Heligoland
- July 2 - The Sherman Anti-Trust Act and Sherman Silver Purchase Act become United States law.
- July 3 - Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
- July 10 - Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
- July 27 - Vincent van Gogh shoots himself in the chest and dies two days later
- August 6 - At Auburn Prison in New York, the first execution by electric chair is performed (murderer William Kemmler was the subject).
- October 8 - First flight of Clement's Ader airplane "Eole" In Satory, France. In Greek mythology, Eole is the god of the winds.
- October 11 - In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
- October 13 - The Delta Chi Fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithica, New York.
- November 23 - King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and his daughter Princess Wilhelmina became Queen, Luxembourg only wanted to accept a male heir and broke her personal union with and became fully independent from The Netherlands.
- November 29 - The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan and the first Diet convenes.
- November 29 - In West Point, New York, the United States Navy defeats the United States Army 24 to 0 in the first Army-Navy football game.
- December 29 - The United States Seventh Cavalry massacres over 400 men, women and children at Wounded Knee, South Dakota (see Wounded Knee Massacre).
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Births
January
February
March
- March 3 - Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (d. 1939)
- March 9 - (new style) Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986)
- March 11 - Vannevar Bush, American engineer, inventor, and politician (d. 1974)
- March 20 - Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (d. 1957)
- March 20 - Lauritz Melchior, Danish-American tenor (d. 1973)
- March 28 - Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (d. 1967)
- March 31 - William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
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September
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December
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Deaths
- January 18 - King Amadeus I of Spain (b. 1845)
- February 22 - John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. 1822)
- February 22 - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (b. 1834)
- April 11 - Joseph Carey Merrick, English oddity (b. 1862)
- June 30 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer (b. 1819)
- July 15 - Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (b. 1819)
- July 29 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853)
- August 11 - John Henry Newman, English Roman Catholic Cardinal (b. 1801)
- October 4 - Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
- October 26 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (b. 1826)
- November 3 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
- November 8 - César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1822)
- November 23 - King William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817)
- November 24 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (b. 1816)
- December 26 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (b. 1822)
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