Notable Historical Events - 1891
1891 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
French troops occupy Nioro, West-Sudan, 3000 killed |
Jan 1 |
King Pakketvaart sails to Neth Indies |
Jan 26 |
Oscar Wilde's "Duchess of Padua," premieres 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 |
The first attempt of a Portuguese republican revolution breakes out in the northern city of Porto. |
Feb 6 |
1st great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17) |
Feb 7 |
Great Blizzard of 1891 begins in England |
Feb 9 |
1st shipment of asparagus arrives in SF 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 capt Archinard occupy Diena West Sudan |
Feb 26 |
1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park |
Feb 26 |
Henrik Ibsens "Hedda Gabler," premieres in Oslo |
Feb 28 |
Oscar Grundén skates world record 500m (50.8 sec) |
Mar 3 |
Congress creates US Courts of Appeal |
Mar 3 |
Congress creates Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept) |
Mar 3 |
The Penalty Spot Kick rule in Association Football is conceived, but does not come into effect until the next season. |
Mar 10 |
Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching. |
Mar 17 |
British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574 |
Mar 18 |
Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone |
Mar 28 |
1st world weightlifting championship held |
Apr 1 |
London-Paris telephone connection opens |
Apr 1 |
Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti |
Apr 1 |
The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois. |
Apr 7 |
Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day |
Apr 11 |
8 year old Jewish tailor's daughter disappears in Greece, rumor spreads that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews |
Apr 23 |
Jews are expelled from Moscow Russia |
Apr 24 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Final Problem" |
Apr 25 |
Pres Benjamin Harrison visits SF |
May 1 |
Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Cleveland's League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3 |
May 5 |
Music Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in NY, Tchaikovsky as guest conductor |
May 6 |
Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike |
May 7 |
Battle in Bunyoro: Capt F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 killed |
May 11 |
The Otsu Scandal: While visiting Japan, Prince Nicholas (later Tsar Nicholas II) survives an assassination attempt |
May 12 |
Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo, Suriname |
May 13 |
17th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Kingman wins in 2:52.25 |
May 15 |
British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) forms |
May 15 |
Jules Massenet's opera "Griselde" premieres in Paris |
May 15 |
Operations begin at Philips & Co in Holland |
May 15 |
Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Rerum novarum |
May 16 |
George A Hormel & Co introduce Spam |
May 19 |
Rice Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered |
May 20 |
History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope. |
May 21 |
Boxers Peter Jackson & Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds |
May 22 |
1st motion picture shown to Natl Federation of Women's Clubs |
May 31 |
Work on trans-Siberian railway begins |
Jun 9 |
Painter Gauguin arrives in Papeete, Tahiti |
Jun 10 |
25th Belmont: Ed Garrison riding Foxford wins in 2:08.75 |
Jun 11 |
Puerto Rican flag adopted |
Jun 16 |
John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister. |
Jun 29 |
100°F (SF, CA) |
Jun 29 |
US National Forest Service organized |
Jun 29 |
Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation. |
Jul 5 |
Hail kills 6 horses in Rapid City, SD |
Jul 7 |
Travelers checks patents |
Jul 8 |
61°F, highest temp for July 1891, in Baltimore & Phila |
Jul 9 |
8th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Hillyard (6-2 6-1) |
Jul 9 |
15th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Wilfred Baddeley beats Joshua Pim (6-4 1-6 7-5 6-0) |
Jul 14 |
John T Smith patents corkboard |
Jul 26 |
Henry James' "American" premieres in London |
Jul 26 |
France annexes Tahiti. |
Jul 27 |
Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as governor of Suriname |
Aug 5 |
1st travelers checks issued (American Express) |
Aug 15 |
San Sebastian Church in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed. |
Aug 17 |
1st public bathhouse with showers opens in NYC (People's Bath) |
Aug 17 |
Electric self-starter for automobile patented |
Aug 18 |
Hurricane hits Martinique, about 700 die |
Aug 19 |
William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum |
Aug 21 |
Dutch Mackay government resigns |
Aug 24 |
Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera |
Sep 3 |
11th US Men's Tennis: Oliver S Campbell beats C Hobart (2-6 7-5 7-9 6-1 6-2) |
Sep 3 |
Cotton pickers organize union & stage strike in Texas |
Sep 3 |
John Stephens Durham named US minister to Haiti |
Sep 7 |
Captain Frederick Lugard's army reaches Kavalli, Equatoria |
Sep 11 |
The Jewish Colonization Association is established by Baron Maurice de Hirsch. |
Sep 14 |
"Empire State Express" train goes from NYC to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M |
Sep 18 |
Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief |
Sep 20 |
The first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. |
Oct 1 |
In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors. |
Oct 12 |
Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated |
Oct 18 |
1st international 6-day bicycle race in US (Madison Square Garden, NYC) begins |
Oct 20 |
1st International 6 day bike race (NY Madison Square Garden) begins |
Oct 25 |
1st International 6 day bike race (NY Madison Square Garden) ends |
Oct 28 |
Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300 |
Nov 10 |
1st Women's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston) |
Nov 10 |
Granville T Woods patents electric railway |
Nov 30 |
Pope Leo XIII's encyclical "Rerum novarum" published |
Dec 1 |
James Naismith creates the game of basketball |
Dec 2 |
52nd Congress (1891-93) convenes |
Dec 7 |
52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session |
Dec 15 |
James Naismith invents basketball (Canada) |
Dec 19 |
1st Negro Catholic priest ordained in US, Charles Uncles, Baltimore |
Dec 19 |
Canadian Rugby Union forms |
Dec 20 |
Strongman Louis Cyr withstands pull of 4 horses |
Dec 21 |
18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College) |
Dec 29 |
Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio) |
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