1890 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1890?
- January 1, 1890 – The Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, is first held.
- 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 Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1710 ft long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII.
- April 7, 1890 – Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
- 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 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 the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Juárez Celman’s resignation.
- August 6, 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
- September 12, 1890 – Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
- September 24, 1890 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
- October 1, 1890 – Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
- November 4, 1890 – City & 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 become his heir.
- November 29, 1890 – The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan and the first Diet convenes.
- December 22, 1890 – Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kingsport and Kentville, Nova Scotia.
- December 29, 1890 – United States soldiers kill more than 200 Oglala Lakota people with four Hotchkiss guns in the Wounded Knee Massacre.
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