1891

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Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s
Years:	1888 1889 1890 - 1891 - 1892 1893 1894

1891 in topic:
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Events of 1891

January 1 - Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany.
January 20 - Jim Hogg becomes the first native Texan to be governor of that state.
January 29 - Liliuokalani proclaimed Queen of Hawaii.
January 31 - The Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
February 14 - In the FA Cup Quarter Final, a goal is deliberately stopped by handball on the goal line. An Indirect free kick is awarded, since the Penalty kick was proposed that year but not implemented. This event probably changed public opinion on the penalty kick, which was seen as 'an Irishman's motion' before. (See William McCrum.)
February 15 - AIK founded.
February 21 - Springhill, Nova Scotia mining disaster.
March 3 - The International Copyright Act of 1891 is passed by the 51st Congress of the U.S.
March 9-12 - Powerful storm off England's south coast; 14 ships sunk.
March 14 - In New Orleans, lynch mob storms the Old Parish Prison and lynches eleven Italians arrested but found innocent for the murder of Police Chief David Hennessey.
March 15 Jesse W. Reno patents the first escalator (at Coney Beach)
March 17 - The British steamship SS Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar, killing 574.

April 1 - The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago.
May - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claims to be the Promised Messiah(The second coming of Jesus) and the Mahdi awaited in Islam.
May 1 - Nine killed and thirty wounded when troops fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of eight-hour workday in Fourmies, France.
May 5 - The Music Hall in New York (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with maestro Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
May 11 - Otsu Scandal.
May 15 - Pope Leo XIII issues the encyclical "Rerum Novarum" resulting in the creation of many Christian Democrat Parties throughout Europe.
May 20 - First public display of Thomas Alva Edison's prototype kinetoscope (shown at Edison's Laboratory for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs).
May 31 NS (=May 19 OS) - In area of Kuperovskaya fold in Vladivostok city ceremony of grand laying of the Trans-Siberian Railroad was carried out and a service on this occasion was held. Heir of throne, czeravecih Nikolai Alexandrovich (future emperor Nikolai II) took part in this ceremony.
June 16 - John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
June 21 - First long-distance transmission of alternating current by the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado by Lucien and Paul Nunn.

August 27 - France and Russia conclude defensive alliance.
September 14 - The first penalty kick is awarded in a football (soccer) match: John Heath scores it for Wolverhampton Wanderers.
September 28 - The C.A. Peñarol is founded in Montevideo under the name of CURCC (Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club)

October 1 - In California, Stanford University opens its doors.
October 27 - An 8.0 earthquake strikes the village of Utsuzumi in rural Gifu, Japan, killing over 7,000 across the region and creating a 3-meter-tall surface fault that is still visible.

The Brahmin teacher and nationalist, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, begins agitation for Indian home Rule.
Civil War occurs in Chile.
Maria Skłodowska (later Marie Curie) enters Sorbonne University.
New Scotland Yard becomes the HQ of London Metropolitan Police.
Swiss Army Knife is developed.
Eugène Dubois makes the first discovery of Homo erectus fossils in Dutch colony of Java.
Winter - James Naismith invents basketball.
The Tobacco Protest occurs in Iran.
Oba Ovonramwen seizes the throne of Benin.
Auckland University Students' Association is founded.
Seattle University is established.
Australian Labor Party is founded.
Nikola Tesla invents the Tesla coil.
15.6 million people live in cities of 20,000 or more in England and Wales. Cities of 20,000 or more account for 54% of the total English population.