1891
1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
Events January 1 - Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany January 20 - James Hogg becomes the first native Texan to be governor of that state. January 29 - Liliuokalani proclaimed Queen of Hawaii March 9 - 12 - Powerful storm off England's south coast; 14 ships sink March 17 - The British steamship SS Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar, killing 574. April 1 - The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago. May 1 - Nine killed and thirty wounded when troops fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of eight-hour workday in Fourmies, France. May 20 - First public display of Thomas Alva Edison's prototype kinetoscope (shown at Edison's Laboratory for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs). June 16 - John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister. June 21 - First long-distance transmission of Alternating current by the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado by Lucien and Paul Nunn. August 27 - France and Russia conclude defensive alliance. October 1 - In California, Stanford University opens its doors December 29 - Thomas Edison patents the radio Building of The Trans-Siberian Railroad begins (ends 1917) The Brahmin teacher and nationalist, Bal Bangadhar tilak, begins agitation for Indian home Rule Civil War in Chile Kicking Bear surrenders Earthquake in Japan kills 25.000 Famine in Russia Maria Sklodowska enters Sorbonne University New Scotland Yard becomes the HQ of London Metropolitan Police Swiss Army Knife Winter - James Naismith invents Basketball The Tobacco Protest occurs in Iran
Births January 8 - Walther Bothe, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954 (d. 1957) February 9 - Ronald Colman, actor (d. 1958) February 11 - J.W. Hearne Middlesex and England all-rounder (d. 1965). February 27 - David Sarnoff, broadcasting pioneer (d. 1971) March 10 - Sam Jaffe, actor (d. 1984) March 19 - Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974) March 24 - John Knittel, dramatist (d. 1970) March 29 - Yvan Goll, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1950) April 2 - Max Ernst, painter (d. 1976) April 13 - Nella Larsen, African American novelist (d. 1964) April 17 - George Adamski, UFO traveler (d. 1965) April 23 - Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer (d. 1953) May 15 - Mikhail Bulgakov, writer (d. 1940) May 16 - Richard Tauber, tenor (d. 1948) May 18 - Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (d. 1970) May 19 - Oswald Boelcke, World War I fighter ace (d. 1916) May 22 - Eddie Edwards, jazz musician (d. 1963) May 24 - William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar June 9 - Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter June 20 - John A. Costello, second Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1976) June 21 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (d. 1966) June 30 - Man Mountain Dean, professional wrestler (d. 1953) September 12 - Don Pedro Albizu Campos, advocate for Puerto Rican independence (d. 1965) September 14 - William F. Friedman, cryptanalyst September 16 - Karl Dönitz, President of Germany September 26 - Charles Munch), French conductor and violinist (d. 1968) October 24 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic November 14 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine, 1923 November 15 - Vincent Astor, American philanthropist (d. 1959) November 15 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshal December 26 - Henry Miller, writer
Deaths January 5 - Emma Abbott, American opera singer January 21 - Calixa Lavallée, composer March 15 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823) March 15 - Sir Joseph Bazalgette, British engineer April 7 - Phineas Taylor Barnum, American circus impresario May 8 - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, author and theosophist July 4 - Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. politicianAugust 12 - James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayistAugust 14 - Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States September 15 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author September 28 - Herman Melville, American novelist October 6 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist leader October 15 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, writer November 10 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (b. 1854)
Fictional events of the year
Sherlock Holmes is believed to have died in the Reichenbach fall with the "Napoleon of crime", Professor James Moriarty.
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