1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the "Mauve Decade," because William Henry Perkin's aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the "Gay Nineties", under the then-current usage of the word "gay" which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no connotation of homosexuality as in current-day usage. 1890s - Events and trends. 18 ...

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1890s - World leaders. Prime Minister John Sparrow David Thompson (Canada) Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier (Canada) Emperor Franz Josef (Austria-Hungary) Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany) Chancellor Leo von Caprivi (Germany) King Umberto I (Italy) Pope Leo XIII Czar Alexander III (Russia) Czar Nicholas II (Russia) Queen Victoria (United Kingdom) Prime Minister Lord Salisbury (United Kingdom) Prime Minister Willia ...

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Timeline of labor unions in the United States - 1890. 25 July 1890 New York garment workers won the right to unionize after a seven-month strike. They secured agreements for a closed shop, and firing of all scabs. Timeline of labor unions in the United States - 1892. 6 July 1892 Homestead Strike Pinkerton Guards, trying to pave the way for the introduction of scabs, opened fire on striking Carnegie mill steel- workers in Homestead, Pennsylvania. In the ensu ...

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The 1890 Manifesto, sometimes simply called The Manifesto, was a historical statement which officially renounced the practice of polygamy in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church; see also "Mormon"). Signed on by LDS President Wilford Woodruff in September of 1890, the Manifesto was a dramatic turning point in LDS Church history. The Manifesto applied non-retroactively. Therefore, Latter-day Saints already polygamously married were "grandfathered in," but the Church was to ...

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1890s - Technology. Early commercial production of automobiles. 1890s - Science. Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity Discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius and US geologist Thomas Crowder Chamberlain independently come to the conclusion that burning fossil fuels might cause global war ...

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The County Championship is the domestic first class cricket competition in the United Kingdom, mainly in England. All but one of teams are named after, and were originally representative of, English counties (the exception being Glamorgan, which is a Welsh county.) County Championship - History. The official County Championship began in 1890, before which unofficial championships were contested. The unofficial championships were decided not by any numerical method but rather by popular acclaim. The f ...

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Scotland was, until 1975, divided into counties for the purposes of local government and other government functions such as the lieutenancy. The counties originated prior to the Union with England, and continued as both administrative and ceremonial units until their abolition in 1975 by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, when they were replaced with regions and districts and the areas for Lieutenancy. The counties remained in use in adapted form as postal counties until 1996; now their main use is traditional. Some of t ...

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Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (Виктор Михайлович Васнецов) (May 15 (N.S.), 1848—1926) was a Russian artist who specialized in mythological and historical subjects. He is considered a key figure of the revivalist movement in Russian art. Viktor Vasnetsov - Biography. Viktor Vasnetsov - Childhood 1848-1858. Viktor Vasnetsov was born in a remote village of Vyatka guberniya in 1848. His father Mikhail Vasilievich Vasnetsov was a village priest. He was a wel ...

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Arthur Machen (March 3, 1863 – December 15th, 1947) was a leading Welsh-born author of the 1890s. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction. He also is well known for a leading role in creating the myth of the Angels of Mons. Arthur Machen - Biography. Arthur Machen - Early years. He was born Arthur Llewelyn Jones, in Caerleon in Monmouthshire. His father John Edward Jones became Vicar of the tiny church of Llandewi Fach, near Caerleo ...

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Bremerton is a city located in Kitsap County, Washington, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 37,259. It is home to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the Bremerton Annex of Naval Base Kitsap. Bremerton is connected to downtown Seattle by a 60-minute ferry ride, which carries both vehicles and walk-on passengers. Bremerton Washington - Geography. Bremerton is located at 47°34'12" North, 122°39'9" West (47.570017, -122.652625)GR1. It is located on the Kits ...

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For the former National Basketball Association player, see Andrew Lang (basketball). Andrew Lang Born in Selkirk, Scotland (March 31, 1844 - July 20, 1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters. He was a poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. Andrew Lang - Education. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first class in the ...

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1890 - Unknown dates. Scotland Yard moves to the Embankment. The corrugated cardboard box is invented by Robert Gair. U.S. Census - Herman Hollerith devises a method using punch cards (like Jacquard's loom) to tabulate census data by machine. (see also History of computing hardware). Hollerith's company eventually becomes IBM. The bustle goes out of fashion. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was passed by the US Congress The Sherman Silver Purchase Act was passed by the ...

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1890 - January-March. January 1 - Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (d. 1966) January 4 - Victor Lustig, Bohemian-born con artist (d. 1947) January 9 - Kurt Tucholsky, German-born journalist and satirist (d. 1935) January 9 - Karel Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1938) January 19 - Élise Rivet, French Roman Catholic nun and war heroine (d. 1945) February 10 - Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1960) February 14 - Nina Hamnett, ...

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Fashionable women's clothing styles shed some of the extravagances of previous decades (so that skirts were neither crinolined as in the 1850s, nor protrudingly bustled in back as in the late 1860s and mid-1880s, nor tight as in the late 1870s), but corseting continued unmitigated, or even slightly increased in severity. Early 1890s dresses consisted of a tight bodice with the skirt gathered at the waist and falling more naturally ov ...

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The dispute began on 15 August 1890 when the Mercantile Marine Officers' Association directed its members to give 24 hours' notice to their employers after negotiations broke down with the Steamship Owners' Association of Victoria over longstanding pay and conditions claims. Industrial action quickly spread to seamen, wharf labourers, then gas stockers. Coal miners from Newcastle, Broken Hill, and even New Zealand were locked out after refusing to dig coal for non-unio ...

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While police had been used in strikes before 1890, the military had not been used. During the strike military units were extensively used in New South Wales and Victoria. Armed troops were deployed in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle and a number of other ports around Australia. In Melbourne the announcement that a public meeting was going to be held on the 31 August 1890 to support the Maritime strikers sent the Victorian government into panic mode. On the eve of the meeting one thousand military volunteers were addressed by Colonel Tom ...

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1890 in rail transport - August events. August 18 - The Kansas City Suburban Belt Railroad, a predecessor of Kansas City Southern Railway, begins operations between Kansas City and Argentine. August 19 - Pennsylvania Railroad subsidiary Ohio Valley Railway reorganized as the Pittsburg, Ohio Valley and Cincinnati Railroad. 1890 in rail transport - November events. November 26 - The Mito Railway, in ...

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1890 in rail transport - August births. August 16 - C. P. Couch, president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1939-1941 (d. 1955). ...

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