1891
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| File:The Anglo-American Establishment.jpg “One wintry afternoon in February 1891, three men were engaged in earnest conversation in London. From that conversation were to flow consequences of the greatest importance to the British Empire and to the world as a whole. For these men were organizing a secret society that was for more than fifty years to be one of the most important forces in the formulation and execution of British imperial and foreign policy.” |
Events
January–March
- January 1 – Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany.
- January 5 – The Australian shearers' strike, that leads indirectly to the foundation of the Australian Labor Party, begins.
- January 29 –– Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii (the last ruler before the US annexation).
- March 3 – The International Copyright Act of 1891 is passed, by the 51st United States Congress.
- March 14 – In New Orleans, a lynch mob storms the Old Parish Prison, and lynches 11 Italians arrested but found innocent of the murder of Police Chief David Hennessy.
- March 18 – The London–Paris telephone system officially opens.
- April 1 – The London–Paris telephone system is opened to the general public.
- April 5 – Census in the United Kingdom: 15.6 million people live in cities of 20,000 or more in England and Wales, and cities of 20,000 or more account for 54% of the total English population.
- May 11 – Ōtsu incident: Tsesarevich Nikolay Alexandrovich (the future Czar Nicholas II) of Russia survives an assassination attempt, while visiting Japan.
- May 31 N.S. (May 19 O.S.) – In the Kuperovskaya district of Vladivostok, a grand ceremonial inauguration of construction work on the Trans-Siberian Railway is carried out by the Tsesarevich Nikolay Alexandrovich, and a religious service held.
- June 21 – The first long-distance transmission of alternating current is made, by the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado, by Lucien and Paul Nunn.
- July 10 – Erik Gustaf Boström becomes Prime Minister of Sweden.
- August 27 – France and Russia conclude a defensive alliance.
- September 29 – Thyssen, as predecessor of Thyssen Krupp, a conglomerate in worldwide, founded in Duisburg, Germany.