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| 1889 |
| | | A collapsing dam sends 40 feet of water through Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing more than 2000 people | |
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| 1889 |
| | | The tone poem Don Juan, by the 25-year-old Richard Strauss, has a passionately mixed response at its premiere in Weimar | |
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| 1889 |
| | | US reformer Jane Addams sets up Hull House as a neighbourhood social centre in a deprived area of Chicago | |
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| 1889 |
| | | France and Britain agree colonial boundaries for Senegal and Gambia in west Africa | |
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| 1889 |
| | | The French Panama Canal company goes into liquidation with work still in progress | |
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| 1889 |
| | | The first conference of American nations, in Washington, D.C., launches the Commercial Bureau of the American Republics (later called the Pan-American Union) | |
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| 1889 |
| | | English musicologist George Grove completes publication of his four-volume Dictionary of Music and Musicians | |
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| 1889 |
| | | A coup removes emperor Pedro II from his throne in Brazil, putting in his place a military dictatorship | |
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| 1889 |
| | | The US industrialist Andrew Carnegie argues in The Gospel of Wealth that 'the man who dies rich dies disgraced' | |
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| 1889 |
| | | Austrian composer Gustav Mahler conducts the premiere in Budapest of his first symphony, described as a 'symphonic poem' | |
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| 1889 |
| | | In the treaty of Uccialli, Menelik II cedes the Ethiopian province of Eritrea to Italy | |
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| 1889 |
| | | Charles Steward Parnell is cited as co-respondent in a divorce case brought against Kitty O'Shea | |
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| 1889 |
| | | The Fabian Society publishes Essays in Socialisman influential volume of essays edited by Bernard Shaw | |
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| 1890 |
| | | Sleeping Beauty, with choreography by Petipa to music by Tchaikovsky, has its premiere in St Petersburg | |
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| 1890 |
| | | A vast cantilever bridge, spanning a mile of water, carries the railway across the Firth of Forth in Scotland | |
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| 1890 |
| | | In How the Other Half Lives David Riis alerts middle-class New Yorkers to the appalling slum conditions in lower Manhattan | |
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| 1890 |
| | | The new young German emperor, Wilhelm II, dismisses the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck | |
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| 1890 |
| | | Cecil Rhodes sends colonists to settle the newly won colony of Rhodesia | |
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| 1890 |
| | | The Sherman Antitrust Act begins a strong US tradition of protecting the free market | |
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| 1890 |
| | | The Manitoba Schools Question reflects the first major clash in independent Canada between French and British interests | |
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| 1890 |
| | | Zanzibar, under its Arab sultan, is declared a British protectorate | |
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| 1890 |
| | | Poems is the first of six collections of Emily Dickinson's poetry, found among her papers on her death and published posthumously | |
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| 1890 |
| | | Henrik Ibsen publishes his play Hedda Gabler, with its powerfully manipulative central character, a year before it is first produced (in Germany) | |
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| 1890 |
| | | The world's first electric underground railway passes under the Thames, linking the City of London and Stockwell | |
|  | A carriage on the first 'tube'
London's Transport Museum
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| 1890 |
| | | Hundreds of Sioux Indians are killed by US troops in a massacre at Wounded Knee Creek | |
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| 1890 |
| | | Scottish anthropologist James Frazer publishes The Golden Bough, a massive compilation of contemporary knowledge about ritual and religious custom | |
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| 1890 |
| | | 9-year-old Daisy Ashford imagines an adult romance and high society in The Young Visiters | |
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| 1891 |
| | | Germany takes direct control of German East Africa as a protectorate | |
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| 1891 |
| | | Rhodes wins the right to adminster the region from the Zambezi up to Lake Tanganyika, forming present-day Zambia | |
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| 1891 |
| | | Work begins in the Urals and at Vladivostock, laying track which will eventually join up as the Trans-Siberian railway | |
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| 1891 |
| | | A new Populist Party, dedicated to democracy and welfare, begins a brief career of considerable political influence in the USA | |
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| 1891 |
| | | Canadian athlete James Naismith, at a YMCA college in Springfield, Massachusetts, invents basketball as an indoor winter game | |
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