1891 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1891?
- January 29, 1891 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
- January 31, 1891 – The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
- March 10, 1891 – Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
- March 17, 1891 – SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
- April 1, 1891 – The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
- May 5, 1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
- May 11, 1891 – The Ōtsu incident: Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Imperial Russia (later Nicholas II) suffers a critical head injury during a sword attack by Japanese policeman Tsuda Sanzō. He is rescued by Prince George of Greece and Denmark.
- May 15, 1891 – Pope Leo XIII defends workers’ rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum Novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
- May 16, 1891 – The International Electro-Technical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world’s first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electrical current (the most common form today).
- May 20, 1891 – History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison’s prototype kinetoscope.
- June 16, 1891 – John Abbott becomes Canada’s third Prime Minister.
- July 26, 1891 – France annexes Tahiti.
- August 16, 1891 – The Basilica of San Sebastian in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
- August 18, 1891 – Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
- August 24, 1891 – Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
- October 1, 1891 – In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.
- October 28, 1891 – The Mino-Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan’s history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.
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