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What Happened In History Year 1891

Historical Events for the Year 1891

  • 29th January » Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.
  • 31st January » History of Portugal (1834–1910) or History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republicanism called republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
  • 10th March » Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
  • 17th March » SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson 1886 6 in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
  • 1st April » The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago known as Chicago, Illinois.
  • 5th May » The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky or Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
  • 11th May » The Ōtsu incident: Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Imperial Russia (later Nicholas II) suffers a critical head injury during a sword attack by Japanese policeman Tsuda Sanzō. He is rescued by Prince George of Greece and Denmark.
  • 26th July » France annexes Tahiti.
  • 16th August » The Basilica of San Sebastian, Manila called Basilica of San Sebastian in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
  • 18th August » 1891 Martinique hurricane known as Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
  • 24th August » Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
  • 1st October » In California, Stanford University opens its doors.
  • 22nd December » Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.

Famous Birthdays in 1891

  • 1st January » Sampurnanand, Indian politician (d. 1969)
  • 2nd January » Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (d. 1990)
  • 4th January » Edward Brooker, Australian politician, 31st Premier of Tasmania (d. 1948)
  • 7th January » Zora Neale Hurston, American anthropologist and author (d. 1960)
  • 8th January » Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
  • 8th January » Storm Jameson, English journalist and author (d. 1986)
  • 8th January » Bronislava Nijinska, Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 1972)
  • 9th January » August Gailit, Estonian author (d. 1960)
  • 10th January » Heinrich Behmann, German mathematician (d. 1970)
  • 15th January » Ray Chapman, American baseball player (d. 1920)
  • 15th January » Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet (d. 1938)
  • 20th January » Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-American violinist (d. 1967)
  • 22nd January » Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher and politician (d. 1937)
  • 24th January » Walter Model, German field marshal (d. 1945)
  • 26th January » Frank Costello, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1973)
  • 26th January » August Froehlich, German priest and martyr (d. 1942)
  • 26th January » Wilder Penfield, American-Canadian neurosurgeon (d. 1976)
  • 27th January » Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian journalist and author (d. 1967)
  • 28th January » Bill Doak, American baseball player (d. 1954)
  • 29th January » Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina (d. 1975)
  • 29th January » R. Norris Williams, Swiss-American tennis player (d. 1968)
  • 4th February » M. A. Ayyangar, Indian politician, 2nd Speaker of the Lok Sabha (d. 1978)
  • 4th February » Jüri Lossmann, Estonian runner (d. 1984)
  • 7th February » Ann Little, American actress (d. 1984)
  • 9th February » Ronald Colman, English actor (d. 1958)
  • 11th February » J. W. Hearne English cricketer (d. 1965)
  • 13th February » Kate Roberts (author) called Kate Roberts, Welsh author (d. 1985)
  • 13th February » Grant Wood, American painter (d. 1942)
  • 15th February » Dino Borgioli, Italian tenor (d. 1960)
  • 16th February » Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist (d. 1967)
  • 17th February » Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician (d. 1965)
  • 22nd February » Vlas Chubar, Russian politician (d. 1939)
  • 23rd February » Harold Horder, Australian rugby player (d. 1978)
  • 27th February » David Sarnoff, Belarusian-American businessman and journalist, founded RCA (d. 1971)
  • 3rd March » Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens (d. 1949)
  • 3rd March » Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer (d. 1982)
  • 4th March » Dazzy Vance, American baseball player (d. 1961)
  • 4th March » Lois W., American activist, co-founder of Al-Anon (d. 1988)
  • 8th March » Sam Jaffe, American actor (d. 1984)
  • 9th March » José P. Laurel, Filipino politician, 3rd President of the Philippines (d. 1959)
  • 10th March » Sam Jaffe, American actor and engineer (d. 1984)
  • 11th March » Gertrud Wolle, German actress (d. 1952)
  • 12th March » George W. Mason, American businessman (d. 1954)
  • 18th March » Alice Cullen (politician) e.g Alice Cullen, Scottish politician (d. 1969)
  • 19th March » Earl Warren, American politician and jurist, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974)
  • 21st March » Jonathan Hale, Canadian-American actor (d. 1966)
  • 24th March » Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Russian physicist (d. 1951)
  • 27th March » A. P. Elkin, Australian anthropologist and priest (d. 1979)
  • 27th March » Vallance Jupp, English cricketer (d. 1960)
  • 27th March » Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian author and playwright (d. 1974)
  • 29th March » Yvan Goll, French-German poet (d. 1950)
  • 29th March » Alfred Neubauer, Czech race car driver and manager (d. 1980)
  • 31st March » Victor Varconi, Hungarian-American actor (d. 1976)
  • 2nd April » Jack Buchanan, Scottish actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 1957)
  • 2nd April » Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, and poet (d. 1976)
  • 7th April » Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman, founded the Lego Group (d. 1958)
  • 10th April » Frank Barson, English footballer and coach (d. 1968)
  • 13th April » Maurice Buckley, Australian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1921)
  • 13th April » Nella Larsen, American author (d. 1964)
  • 13th April » Robert Scholl, German accountant and politician (d. 1973)
  • 14th April » B. R. Ambedkar, Indian jurist and politician (d. 1956)
  • 14th April » Otto Lasanen, Finnish wrestler (d. 1958)
  • 16th April » Dorothy P. Lathrop, American author and illustrator (d. 1980)
  • 17th April » George Adamski, Polish-American ufologist and author (d. 1965)
  • 19th April » Françoise Rosay, French actress and singer (d. 1974)
  • 22nd April » Laura Gilpin, American photographer (d. 1979)
  • 22nd April » Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (d. 1965)
  • 22nd April » Harold Jeffreys, English mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (d. 1989)
  • 22nd April » Sacco and Vanzetti e.g Nicola Sacco, Italian-American criminal (d. 1927)
  • 23rd April » Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1953)
  • 3rd May » Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet and critic (d. 1969)
  • 7th May » Harry McShane, Scottish engineer and activist (d. 1988)
  • 10th May » Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (d. 1934)
  • 15th May » Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian author and playwright (d. 1940)
  • 15th May » Fritz Feigl, Austrian-Brazilian chemist and academic (d. 1971)
  • 16th May » Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor and actor (d. 1948)
  • 17th May » Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife (d. 1959)
  • 17th May » Napoleon Zervas, Greek general (d. 1957)
  • 18th May » Rudolf Carnap, German-American philosopher (d. 1970)
  • 19th May » Oswald Boelcke, German captain and pilot (d. 1916)
  • 22nd May » Eddie Edwards (musician) or Eddie Edwards, American baseball player and trombonist (Original Dixieland Jazz Band) (d. 1963)
  • 23rd May » Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish author and poet, Nobel Prize in Literature known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
  • 24th May » William F. Albright, American archeologist, philologist, and scholar (d. 1971)
  • 27th May » Claude Champagne, Canadian violinist, pianist, and composer (d. 1965)
  • 27th May » Jaan Kärner, Estonian poet and writer (d. 1958)
  • 2nd June » Thurman Arnold, American lawyer and judge (d. 1969)
  • 2nd June » Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (d. 1945)
  • 6th June » Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, Indian author (d. 1986)
  • 9th June » Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (d. 1964)
  • 10th June » Al Dubin, American songwriter (d. 1945)
  • 18th June » Mae Busch, Australian-American actress (d. 1946)
  • 20th June » Giannina Arangi-Lombardi, Italian soprano (d. 1951)
  • 20th June » John A. Costello, Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd Taoiseach named Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1976)
  • 21st June » Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect and engineer, co-designed the Pirelli Tower and Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption (d. 1979)
  • 21st June » Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (d. 1966)
  • 28th June » Esther Forbes, American historian and author (d. 1968)
  • 28th June » Carl Panzram, American serial killer (d. 1930)
  • 28th June » Carl Andrew Spaatz, American general (d. 1974)
  • 30th June » Man Mountain Dean, American wrestler (d. 1953)
  • 30th June » Ed Lewis (wrestler) e.g Ed Lewis, American wrestler (d. 1966)
  • 5th July » John Howard Northrop, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
  • 5th July » Tin Ujević, Croatian poet (d. 1955)
  • 7th July » Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Japanese general (d. 1945)
  • 7th July » Virginia Rappe, American model and actress (d. 1921)
  • 21st July » Julius Saaristo, Finnish javelin thrower (d. 1969)
  • 27th July » Jacob van der Hoeden, Dutch-Israeli veterinarian and academic (d. 1968)
  • 28th July » Ron Oxenham, Australian cricketer (d. 1939)
  • 29th July » Bernhard Zondek, German-Israeli gynecologist and academic (d. 1966)
  • 1st August » Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
  • 2nd August » Arthur Bliss, English composer and conductor (d. 1975)
  • 2nd August » Viktor Zhirmunsky, Russian linguist and historian (d. 1971)
  • 4th August » Margit Makay, Hungarian actress (d. 1989)
  • 6th August » William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English field marshal, 13th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1970)
  • 8th August » Adolf Busch, German violinist and composer (d. 1952)
  • 11th August » Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian architect and educator (d. 1962)
  • 12th August » C. E. M. Joad, English philosopher and academic (d. 1953)
  • 21st August » Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rician soldier (d. 2007)
  • 22nd August » Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-Italian sculptor (d. 1973)
  • 25th August » David Shimoni, Belarusian-Israeli poet and translator (d. 1956)
  • 26th August » Acharya Chatursen Shastri, Indian author (d. 1960)
  • 28th August » Benno Schotz, Estonian-Scottish sculptor and engineer (d. 1984)
  • 29th August » Marquis James, American journalist and author (d. 1955)
  • 4th September » Fritz Todt, German engineer and politician (d. 1942)
  • 6th September » John Charles Thomas, American actor and singer (d. 1960)
  • 11th September » William Thomas Walsh, American historian, author, and educator (d. 1949)
  • 12th September » Pedro Albizu Campos, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician (d. 1965)
  • 12th September » Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher (d. 1968)
  • 13th September » Max Pruss, German captain (d. 1960)
  • 14th September » Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1983)
  • 16th September » Karl Dönitz, German admiral and politician, List of German presidents known as President of Germany (d. 1980)
  • 16th September » Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (d. 1972)
  • 22nd September » Hans Albers, German actor and singer (d. 1960)
  • 26th September » Charles Münch, French violinist and conductor (d. 1968)
  • 28th September » Myrtle Gonzalez, American actress (d. 1918)
  • 6th October » Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet and educator (d. 1946)
  • 12th October » Edith Stein, Polish nun, philosopher, and saint (d. 1942)
  • 13th October » Irene Rich, American actress (d. 1988)
  • 20th October » Samuel Flagg Bemis, American historian and author (d. 1973)
  • 20th October » James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
  • 22nd October » Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (d. 1988)
  • 24th October » Rafael Trujillo, Dominican soldier and politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic (d. 1961)
  • 24th October » Brenda Ueland, American journalist, author, and educator (d. 1985)
  • 25th October » Charles Coughlin, Canadian-American priest and radio host (d. 1979)
  • 28th October » Ormer Locklear, American pilot (d. 1920)
  • 29th October » Fanny Brice, American actress and singer (d. 1951)
  • 2nd November » David Townsend (art director) or David Townsend, American art director and set decorator (d. 1935)
  • 10th November » Carl Stalling, American pianist and composer (d. 1972)
  • 11th November » Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player and manager (d. 1954)
  • 14th November » Frederick Banting, Canadian physician and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
  • 15th November » W. Averell Harriman, American politician, 48th Governor of New York (d. 1986)
  • 15th November » Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (d. 1944)
  • 25th November » Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Makuuchi Yokozuna or Yokozuna (d. 1941)
  • 26th November » Scott Bradley, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1977)
  • 28th November » Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino journalist, jurist, and politician (d. 1949)
  • 2nd December » Otto Dix, German painter and illustrator (d. 1969)
  • 2nd December » Charles H. Wesley, American historian and author (d. 1987)
  • 3rd December » Thomas Farrell (general) known as Thomas Farrell, American general (d. 1967)
  • 5th December » Paul Kogerman, Estonian chemist and academic (d. 1951)
  • 9th December » Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet and critic (d. 1917)
  • 10th December » Nelly Sachs, German-Swedish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
  • 19th December » Juhan Kallaste, Estonian cleric and actor (d. 1999)
  • 19th December » Edward Bernard Raczyński called Edward Bernard Raczynski, former Polish government-in-exile Presidents named President-in-exile of Poland (d. 1993)
  • 21st December » John William McCormack, American lawyer and politician, 53rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1980)
  • 24th December » Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, Russian illustrator (d. 1970)
  • 25th December » Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-Australian cricketer (d. 1980)
  • 26th December » Henry Miller, American author and painter (d. 1980)

Famous Deaths in History for 1891

  • 4th January » Antoine Labelle, Canadian priest (b. 1833)
  • 5th January » Emma Abbott, American soprano (b. 1849)
  • 16th January » Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836)
  • 17th January » George Bancroft, American historian and politician, 17th United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1800)
  • 20th January » Kalākaua of Hawaii (b. 1836)
  • 21st January » Calixa Lavallée, Canadian-American composer (b. 1842)
  • 26th January » Nikolaus Otto, German engineer, invented the Internal combustion engine (b. 1833)
  • 9th February » Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (b. 1819)
  • 10th February » Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
  • 14th February » William Tecumseh Sherman, American general (b. 1820)
  • 21st February » James Timberlake, American lieutenant and police officer (b. 1846)
  • 28th February » George Hearst, American businessman and politician (b. 1820)
  • 15th March » Joseph Bazalgette, English engineer (b. 1819)
  • 15th March » Théodore de Banville, French poet (b. 1823)
  • 29th March » Georges Seurat, French painter (b. 1859)
  • 2nd April » Albert Pike, American lawyer and general (b. 1809)
  • 7th April » P. T. Barnum, American businessman, co-founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (b. 1810)
  • 24th April » Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German field marshal (b. 1800)
  • 25th April » Nathaniel Woodard, English priest and educator (b. 1811)
  • 30th April » Joseph Leidy, American paleontologist and author (b. 1823)
  • 8th May » Helena Blavatsky, Russian author (b. 1831)
  • 11th May » A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820)
  • 16th May » Ion C. Brătianu, Romanian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1821)
  • 6th June » John A. Macdonald, Scottish-Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
  • 23rd June » Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist and academic (b. 1804)
  • 23rd June » Samuel Newitt Wood, American lawyer and politician (b. 1825)
  • 4th July » Hannibal Hamlin, American politician, 15th Vice President of the United States (b. 1809)
  • 24th July » Hermann Raster, German-American journalist and politician (b. 1827)
  • 12th August » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
  • 14th August » Sarah Childress Polk, American wife of James K. Polk, 12th First Lady of the United States (b. 1803)
  • 22nd August » Jan Neruda, Czech journalist, author, and poet (b. 1834)
  • 27th August » Samuel C. Pomeroy, American businessman and politician (b. 1816)
  • 28th August » Robert Caldwell, English missionary and linguist (b. 1814)
  • 29th August » Pierre Lallement, French businessman, invented the bicycle (b. 1843)
  • 7th September » Lorenzo Sawyer, American lawyer and judge (b. 1820)
  • 9th September » Jules Grévy, French politician, 4th President of the French Republic (b. 1813)
  • 14th September » Johannes Bosboom, Dutch painter (b. 1817)
  • 27th September » Ivan Goncharov, Russian author and critic (b. 1812)
  • 28th September » Herman Melville, American author and poet (b. 1819)
  • 30th September » Georges Ernest Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)
  • 3rd October » Édouard Lucas, French mathematician (b. 1842)
  • 6th October » Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
  • 15th October » Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, English author (b. 1837)
  • 22nd October » Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist and physician (b. 1846)
  • 3rd November » Louis Lucien Bonaparte, English-Italian philologist and politician (b. 1813)
  • 10th November » Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (b. 1854)
  • 5th December » Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
  • 29th December » Leopold Kronecker, Polish-German mathematician and academic (b. 1823)
  • 31st December » Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Nigerian bishop and linguist (b. 1809)

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