Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
Years: 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 - 1895 - 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
See also: Events
- January 5 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island
- February 14 - First showing of Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest (St. James' Theatre in London).
- April 6 - Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.
- April 14 - a major earthquake severely damages Ljubljana, Slovenia
- May 25 - Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "sodomy and gross indecency" and sentenced to serve two years in a London prison.
- November 8 - Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposes a space elevator
- Last major earthquake in the New Madrid Fault Zone
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births
- January 1 - J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director
- January 20 - George Burns, actor, comedian († 1996)
- January 24 - Eugen Roth[?], lyricist and narrator (+ 1976)
- February 2 - George Halas[?], American football player, coach, co-founder of the National Football League (+ 1983)
- February 6 - Babe Ruth, Baseball Hall of Famer (+ 1948)
- February 8 - King Vidor, director (+ 1982)
- February 11 - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky[?], composer.
- February 14 - Max Horkheimer, philosopher and sociologist (+ 1973)
- February 21 - Henrik Carl Peter Dam Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (+ 1976)
- March 3 - Matthew Ridgway[?], Supreme Allied Commander[?] of NATO, United States Army Chief of Staff[?]
- March 17 - Shemp Howard[?], actor ("The Three Stooges") (+ 1955)
- March 29 - Ernst Jünger[?], author (+ 1998)
- March 30 - Nikolai Bulganin[?], Premier of the Soviet Union[?] (+ 1975)
- April 1 - Alberta Hunter[?], singer (+ 1984)
- April 9 - Mance Lipscomb, popular singer.
- April 26 - Nathaniel Kleitman[?], sleep researcher (+ 1999)
- May 6 - Rodolfo Valentino, Italian actor
- May 8 - Fulton J. Sheen, bishop, television personality (+ 1979)
- May 9 - Richard Bathelmess[?], actor (+ 1963)
- July 12 - Buckminster Fuller, American architect.
- September 11 - Vinoba Bhave
- September 28 - Louis Pasteur, French chemist
- October 4 - Buster Keaton, American actor and film director
- November 16 - Paul Hindemith, German composer
- December 14 - King George VI of the United Kingdom
- Wilhelm Gustloff, Swiss Nazi party leader.
Deaths
- February 20 - Frederick Douglass, ex-slave and author.
- March 2 - Berthe Morisot, Impressionist Painter
- May 19 - Jose Marti, Cuban independence leader
- June 29 - Sir Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist
- November 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, author, playwright
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