 Text search
 Related images
 HistoryWorld
 Link
 Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms. |
|  |
| | | | | | | |
|
| 1890 |
| | | Henrik Ibsen publishes his play Hedda Gabler, with its powerfully manipulative central character, a year before it is first produced (in Germany) | |
| |
|
| 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
|
|
|
| 1890 |
| | | Hundreds of Sioux Indians are killed by US troops in a massacre at Wounded Knee Creek | |
| |
|
| 1890 |
| | | Scottish anthropologist James Frazer publishes The Golden Bough, a massive compilation of contemporary knowledge about ritual and religious custom | |
| |
|
| 1890 |
| | | 9-year-old Daisy Ashford imagines an adult romance and high society in The Young Visiters | |
| |
|
| 1891 |
| | | Germany takes direct control of German East Africa as a protectorate | |
| |
|
| 1891 |
| | | Rhodes wins the right to adminster the region from the Zambezi up to Lake Tanganyika, forming present-day Zambia | |
| |
|
| 1891 |
| | | Work begins in the Urals and at Vladivostock, laying track which will eventually join up as the Trans-Siberian railway | |
| |
|
| 1891 |
| | | A new Populist Party, dedicated to democracy and welfare, begins a brief career of considerable political influence in the USA | |
| |
|
| 1891 |
| | | Canadian athlete James Naismith, at a YMCA college in Springfield, Massachusetts, invents basketball as an indoor winter game | |
| |
|
| | | | | |
| |