Important Historical Events of the year 1890, Year 1890 in History

List of 1890 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1890

What happened in the year 1890?

Date Event
January 1, 1890 Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.
January 22, 1890 The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
January 25, 1890 Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
March 4, 1890 The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 8,094 feet (2,467 m) long, is opened by the Duke of Rothesay, later King Edward VII.
March 20, 1890 Chancellor of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor Wilhelm II.
April 14, 1890 The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
June 1, 1890 The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
July 1, 1890 Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
July 2, 1890 The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
July 3, 1890 Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
July 10, 1890 Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
July 26, 1890 In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman's resignation.
July 27, 1890 Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
August 6, 1890 At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
August 7, 1890 Anna Månsdotter, found guilty of the 1889 Yngsjö murder, became the last woman to be executed in Sweden.[18]
September 12, 1890 Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
September 24, 1890 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
September 25, 1890 The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
October 1, 1890 Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
October 11, 1890 In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
October 12, 1890 Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed.
October 26, 1890 Malleco Viaduct in Chile, at the time "the highest railroad bridge in the world", is inaugurated by President José Manuel Balmaceda.
November 4, 1890 City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
November 23, 1890 King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.
November 29, 1890 The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.
December 15, 1890 Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
December 22, 1890 Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.
December 29, 1890 On Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.
December 30, 1890 Following the Wounded Knee Massacre, the United States Army and Lakota warriors face off in the Drexel Mission Fight.