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1889 (
MDCCCLXXXIX ) was a
common year starting on Tuesday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
common year starting on Sunday of the
Julian calendar , the 1889th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 889th year of the
2nd millennium , the 89th year of the
19th century , and the 10th and last year of the
1880s decade. As of the start of 1889, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
January 30 :
Rudolf &
Maria at
Mayerling .
January 30 –
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and his mistress
Baroness Mary Vetsera commit a
double suicide (or a murder-suicide) in the
Mayerling hunting lodge.
February 15 – The first issue of
La Solidaridad is published in Spain.
February 11 – The
Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted; the 1st
Diet of Japan convenes in
1890 .
February 22 –
President
Grover Cleveland
signs a bill admitting
North Dakota ,
South Dakota ,
Montana and
Washington as
U.S. states .
March 4 –
Benjamin Harrison is
sworn in , as the 23rd President of the United States.
March 9 –
Battle of Metemma :
Yohannes IV ,
Emperor of Ethiopia , is killed;
Sudanese forces, who have been almost defeated, rally and destroy the
Ethiopian army. Yohannes is probably the world's last ruler ever to die in battle; on
March 25
Menelik II proclaims himself as his successor.
March 11 – The
North Carolina Legislature issues a charter for the creation of
Elon College .
March 15 –
Samoan crisis : German and American warships keep each other at bay in a standoff in
Apia Harbor, ending when a
cyclone blows in and sinks them all.
March 22 – English
Association football team
Sheffield United F.C. is formed at the Adelphi Hotel,
Sheffield .
March 23 – Claiming to be the Promised Messiah and Mahdi,
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founds the
Ahmadiyya Muslim community in
Punjab Province (British India) .
The
Eiffel Tower is inaugurated on March 31, thus becoming the tallest structure in the world
April–June
April 22 :
Land Run
April 22 – At high noon in Oklahoma Territory, thousands rush to claim land in the
Land Rush of 1889 . Within hours the cities of
Oklahoma City and
Guthrie are formed, with populations of at least 10,000.
May –
1889–1890 pandemic of influenza first reported in the city of
Bukhara in the
Central Asian part of the Russian Empire.
[1]
May 2 –
Menelik II , Emperor of
Ethiopia , signs a treaty of amity with Italy, giving Italy control over what will become
Eritrea .
May 6 – The
Exposition Universelle opens in Paris, with the
Eiffel Tower as its entrance arch. The
Galerie des machines , at 111 m (364 ft), spans the longest interior space in the world at this time.
May 11 –
Wham Paymaster robbery : An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort in the Arizona Territory results in the theft of over $28,000, and the award of two
Medals of Honor .
May 28 – Rubber
tire company
Michelin is registered by
Édouard and
André Michelin in
Clermont-Ferrand ,
France .
May 31
June –
Vincent van Gogh paints
The Starry Night at
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence .
June 3 – The first long distance
electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at
Willamette Falls and downtown
Portland, Oregon .
June 6 – The
Great Seattle Fire ravages through the
downtown area without any fatalities.
June 12 – The
Armagh rail disaster near
Armagh in Ireland kills 80 people.
June 19 – A
Neapolitan baker named
Raffaele Esposito invents the
Pizza Margherita , named after the queen consort of Italy
Margherita of Savoy . This is the forerunner of the modern pizza.
June 26 –
Bangui is founded in the
French Congo .
June 28 – The annular
solar eclipse of June 28, 1889 is visible in Atlantic Ocean, Africa and Indian Ocean, and is the 47th solar eclipse of
Solar Saros 125 .
June 29 –
30 – First Inter-Parliamentary Conference held.
July–September
July 8
July 14 –
International Workers Congresses of Paris open, and establish the
Second International .
July 15 – The
Emperor of Brazil ,
Pedro II , survives an assassination attempt in
Rio de Janeiro .
July 31 –
Louise, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom, marries
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife .
August 3 –
Mahdist War :
Battle of Toski –
Egyptian and British troops are victorious.
August 4 –
The Great Fire of
Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.
August 6 – The
Savoy Hotel in London opens.
[3]
August 10 – At the
Vienna
Hofburg , the grand opening ceremony is held for the
Imperial Natural History Museum (
German : K.k. Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum ), begun in 1871; from August 13 to the end of December, the museum counts 175,000 visitors.
August 14 –
September 15 –
London Dock Strike : Dockers
strike for a minimum wage of sixpence an hour (The dockers' tanner ), which they eventually receive (a landmark in the development of
New Unionism in Britain).
[4]
August 26 – The
Prevention of Cruelty to, and Protection of, Children Act , commonly known as the Children's Charter , is passed in the United Kingdom; for the first time it imposes criminal penalties to deter
child abuse .
[5]
August 30 – The
Royal Mail Mount Pleasant Sorting Office officially opens in London.
August – The Jewish settlement of
Moisés Ville is founded in
Argentina .
September 10 – Albert Honoré Charles Grimaldi becomes
Albert I, Prince of Monaco .
September 17 – Civil War veteran
Charles Jefferson Wright founds
New York Military Academy , with 75 students on 30 acres (120,000 m2 ) of land in
Cornwall, New York .
September 23 :
Nintendo founded as a
playing card manufacturer
October–December
October 2 – In Washington, D.C., the first
International Conference of American States begins.
October 6
October 12 –
Gustaf Åkerhielm , previously Swedish Foreign Minister, replaces
Gillis Bildt as
Prime Minister of Sweden .
October 24 – Sir
Henry Parkes , Premier of
New South Wales , delivers the
Tenterfield Oration , calling for the
Federation of Australia .
October 29 – The
British South Africa Company receives a Royal Charter.
[2]
November – The first free elections are held in
Costa Rica .
November 2
November 8 –
Montana is admitted as the 41st
U.S. state .
November 11 –
Washington is admitted as the 42nd
U.S. state .
November 14 – Inspired by
Jules Verne , pioneer American woman journalist
Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins an attempt to beat travel around the world in less than 80 days (Bly finishes the journey in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes).
November 15 – Field Marshal
Deodoro da Fonseca organizes a military
coup , which deposes Emperor
Pedro II of Brazil and abolishes the Brazilian
monarchy . Deodoro da Fonseca proclaims Brazil a republic, and forms a provisional government.
November 17 – The
Brazilian Imperial Family is forced into exile in France.
November 19 – The modern-day
flag of Brazil is adopted by the Provisional Government of the Republic.
November 20
November 23 – The first
jukebox goes into operation, at the Palais Royale Saloon in
San Francisco .
November 27 –
Clemson University is founded in
Clemson, South Carolina .
December 1 – The
1889–1890 pandemic of influenza first peaks, in
Saint Petersburg , Russia.
December 14 – Wofford and Furman play the first intercollegiate football game, in the state of South Carolina.
December 23 – The Spanish football team
Recreativo de Huelva is formed (the oldest club in Spain by the 21st century).
December 28 – The first
interurban
tram-train to emerge in the United States is the Newark and Granville Street Railway in Ohio.
[7]
Date unknown
Panama ,
yellow fever
Capilano Bridge .
Births
January
February
Ernest Tyldesley
February 2 –
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny , French general, posthumous
Marshal of France (d.
1952 )
February 3 –
Risto Ryti ,
Prime Minister and
President of Finland (d.
1956 )
February 5 –
Ernest Tyldesley , English cricketer (d.
1962 )
February 7 –
Harry Nyquist , Swedish-American contributor to
information theory (d.
1976 )
February 16 –
Hawthorne C. Gray , American balloonist (d.
1927 )
February 19 –
Ernest Marsden , British physicist (d.
1970 )
February 21 –
Pieter Voltelyn Graham van der Byl , South African politician (d.
1975 )
February 22
February 23 –
Victor Fleming , American motion picture director (d.
1949 )
February 25 –
Homer S. Ferguson , American politician (d.
1982 )
March
Oren E. Long
April
Charlie Chaplin
Adolf Hitler
Manuel Prado Ugarteche
April 4
April 7 –
Gabriela Mistral , Chilean writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1957 )
[10]
April 8 –
Adrian Boult , English conductor (d.
1983 )
April 11 –
Nick LaRocca , American musician (d.
1961 )
April 14 –
Arnold J. Toynbee , British historian (d.
1975 )
April 15
April 16 –
Charlie Chaplin , English actor, film director (d.
1977 )
April 20
April 21
April 23 –
Karel Doorman , Dutch admiral (d.
1942 )
April 26 –
Ludwig Wittgenstein , Austrian-born philosopher (d.
1951 )
April 28
April 30 –
Fritz Pfeffer , German-Dutch housemate of
Anne Frank (d.
1944 )
May
Ouyang Yuqian
Igor Sikorsky
June
Beno Gutenberg
July
Jean Cocteau
Ante Pavelić
July 5 –
Jean Cocteau , French writer (d.
1963 )
[13]
July 6 –
Takeo Itō , Japanese general (d.
1965 )
July 7 –
Shiro Kawase , Japanese admiral (d.
1946 )
July 8 –
Eugene Pallette , American actor (d.
1954 )
July 14 –
Ante Pavelić , Croatian
fascist dictator (d.
1959 )
July 15 –
Marjorie Rambeau , American actress (d.
1970 )
July 17 –
Erle Stanley Gardner , American author (d.
1970 )
[14]
July 18 –
Kōichi Kido , Japanese politician (d.
1977 )
July 22 –
Tony Jannus , American aviator, aircraft designer (d.
1916 )
July 24 –
Murray Kinnell , English actor (d.
1954 )
August
August 5 –
Conrad Aiken , American writer (d.
1973 )
[15]
August 6 –
George Kenney , World War II United States Army Air Forces general (d.
1977 )
August 10 –
Norman Scott , American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (d.
1942 )
August 11 –
Ronald Fairbairn , Scottish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (d.
1964 )
August 15 –
Marthe Richard , French prostitute, spy and politician (d.
1982 )
August 21 –
Sir Richard O'Connor , British general (d.
1981 )
August 25 –
Ioan Dumitrache , Romanian general (d.
1977 )
August 29 –
Alfredo Obviar , Filipino
Roman Catholic bishop and Servant of God (d.
1978 )
September
October
Carl von Ossietzky
November
Claude Rains
Jawaharlal Nehru
November 1 –
Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker , Canadian-born peace activist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1982 )
November 10 –
Claude Rains , English-born American actor (d.
1967 )
November 12 –
DeWitt Wallace , American magazine publisher (
Reader's Digest ) (d.
1981 )
November 14
November 15 – King
Manuel II of Portugal (d.
1932 )
November 16 –
George S. Kaufman , American playwright (d.
1961 )
November 18 –
Zoltán Tildy ,
President of Hungary (d.
1961 )
November 19 –
Clifton Webb , American actor, dancer and singer (d.
1966 )
November 20 –
Edwin Hubble , American astronomer (d.
1953 )
November 23 –
Alexander Patch , American general (d.
1945 )
November 25 –
George McMillin , American admiral, last
Naval Governor of Guam (d.
1983 )
November 30
December
Robert Maestri
Date unknown
Nezihe Muhiddin , Turkish women's rights activist, suffragette, journalist, writer and political leader (d.
1958 )
Deaths
January–June
Belle Starr
Youssef Bey Karam
Father Damien
January 13 –
Solomon Bundy , American politician (b.
1823 )
January 22 –
Carlo Pellegrini , Italian caricaturist (b. 1839)
January 30
February 3 –
Belle Starr , American outlaw (b.
1848 )
February 13 –
João Maurício Vanderlei , Brazilian magistrate and politician (b.
1815 )
March 5 –
Mary Louise Booth , American editor-in-chief of
Harper's Bazaar (b.
1831 )
March 8 –
John Ericsson , Swedish inventor, engineer (b.
1803 )
March 9 – Emperor
Yohannes IV of Ethiopia (b.
1837 )
March 13 –
Felice Varesi , French-born Italian baritone (b.
1813 )
March 22 –
Stanley Matthews , American jurist and politician (b.
1824 )
March 24 –
The Leatherman , possibly French-Canadian vagabond in the U.S. (b. c.
1839 )
April 6 –
Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (b.
1797 )
April 7 –
Youssef Bey Karam ,
Lebanese nationalist leader (b.
1823 )
[19]
April 9 –
Michel Eugène Chevreul , French chemist (b.
1786 )
April 12 –
Robert Dunsmuir , Scottish-born Canadian industrialist and politician (b.
1825 )
April 15 –
Father Damien , Belgian
Roman Catholic priest, missionary to
Hawaiians with
leprosy and saint (b.
1840 )
April 21 –
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada , Mexican jurist, 27th
President of Mexico (b.
1823 )
[20]
April 25 –
Mary Dominus , American settler of Hawaii (b.
1803 )
May 9 –
William S. Harney , U.S. Army general (b.
1800 )
May 10 –
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin , Russian satirist (b.
1826 )
May 14 –
Volney E. Howard , American politician (b.
1809 )
May 28 –
Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren , American translator and anti-suffragist (b.
1825 )
June 8 –
Gerard Manley Hopkins , English poet (b.
1844 )
[21]
June 10 –
Abraham Hochmuth , Hungarian rabbi (b.
1816 )
June 15 –
Mihai Eminescu , Romanian poet (b.
1850 )
June 25 –
Lucy Webb Hayes ,
First Lady of the United States (b.
1831 )
July–December
James Prescott Joule
August Ahlqvist
July 4 –
Susan Catherine Koerner Wright , mother of the
Wright Brothers (b.
1831 )
July 7 –
Giovanni Bottesini , Italian conductor, composer and virtuoso
double bass player (b.
1821 )
[22]
July 10 –
Julia Gardiner Tyler ,
First Lady of the United States (b.
1820 )
August 2 –
Eduardo Gutiérrez , Argentinian author (b.
1851 )
August 19 –
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam , French writer (b.
1838 )
[23]
September 23 –
Wilkie Collins , British novelist (b.
1824 )
[24]
September 24 –
Charles Leroux , American balloonist, parachutist (b.
1856 )
September 29 –
Louis Faidherbe , French general and colonial administrator (b.
1818 )
October 10 –
Adolf von Henselt , German pianist and composer (b.
1814 )
[25]
October 11 –
James Prescott Joule , English physicist (b.
1818 )
October 17 –
Rodrigo Augusto da Silva , Brazilian Senator, author of the
Golden Law (b.
1833 )
October 19 – King
Luís I of Portugal (b.
1838 )
October 25 –
Émile Augier , French dramatist (b.
1820 )
[26]
November 16 –
Sergei Bobokhov , Russian revolutionary, who committed suicide as a protest against the flogging of woman comrade in Siberia. (b.
1858 )
November 18 –
William Allingham , Irish author (b.
1824 )
[27]
November 20 –
August Ahlqvist , Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the
Finno-Ugric languages , author, and literary critic (b.
1826 )
[28]
November 24 –
George H. Pendleton , American politician (b.
1825 )
December 6 –
Jefferson Davis ,
President of the Confederate States of America (b.
1808 )
[29]
December 12 –
Robert Browning , English poet (b.
1812 )
[30]
December 28 –
Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies ,
Empress consort of Brazil (b.
1822 )
December 29
December 30 –
Sir Henry Yule , Scottish orientalist (b.
1820 )
December 31 –
Ion Creangă , Romanian writer (b.
1837 or
1839 )
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Further reading and year books
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