1890 AD to 1899 AD

1890 AD

Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh commits suicide on July 29, 1890 AD. Personal union of Luxembourg with the Kingdom of the Netherlands falls apart on the death of William III of the Netherlands on November 23, 1890 AD. The first subway is opened in London in 1890 AD. The Wounded Knee Massacre occurs on December 29, 1890 AD.

1891 AD

The Chilean Civil War of 1891 AD. Russian novelist Ivan Goncharov dies on September 27, 1891 AD. American writer Herman Melville dies on September 28, 1891 AD.

1892 AD

American poet Walt Whitman dies on March 26, 1892 AD. German inventor Ernst Werner von Siemens dies on December 6, 1892 AD.

1893 AD

French historian and philosopher Hippolyte Taine dies on March 5, 1893 AD. Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky dies on November 11, 1893 AD. Independent Labour Party is founded in the United Kingdom in 1893 AD.

1894 AD

German physicist Heinrich Hertz dies on January 1, 1894 AD. Belgian musical instrument designer and inventor of the saxophone, Adolphe Sax dies on February 4, 1894 AD. The Coxey's Army, a protest march of unemployed workers on Washington D.C. takes place on May 1, 1894 AD. French President Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated on June 24, 1894 AD. The First Sino-Japanese War 1894-1895 AD. Nicholas II succeeds his deceased father Alexander III as Russian Tsar on November 11, 1894 AD. Captain Alfred Dreyfus is convicted for treason on December 22, 1894 AD. Japanese physician and bacteriologist Kitasato Shibasaburo discovers the bacterium causing bubonic plague in 1894 AD.

1895 AD

The Treaty of Shimonoseki signed on April 17, 1895 AD, ends the First Sino-Japanese War. German philosopher and co-author of The Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engels dies on August 5, 1895 AD. French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur dies on September 28, 1895 AD. German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovers x-rays on November 8, 1895 AD. The Cuban War of Independence 1895-1898 AD.

1896 AD

The Jameson Raid on Paul Kruger's Transvaal Republic on January 2, 1896 AD, fails. The first modern Olympic Games are held in Greece from April 6 to April 15, 1896 AD. French physicist Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity in 1896 AD. The Philippine Revolution 1896-1898 AD. Madagascar is annexed by France in 1896 AD.

1897 AD

Inauguration of William McKinley as the 25th President of the United States on March 4, 1897 AD. German composer Johannes Brahms dies on April 3, 1897 AD. The First Zionist Congress is held in Basel in August 1897 AD.

1898 AD

English writer Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) dies on January 14, 1898 AD. British statesman William Ewart Gladstone dies on May 19, 1898 AD. The Spanish-American War breaks out in April 1898 AD. The British decisively defeat the Madhi forces in the Battle of Omdurman on September 2, 1898 AD. Elizabeth of Austria (Sisi) is assassinated on September 10, 1898 AD. Chinese Empress Dowager Cixi stops the Hundred Day's Reform initiated by Guangxu Emperor on September 21, 1898 AD. Pierre and Marie Curie discover polonium and radium in 1898 AD. The Treaty of Paris signed on December 10, 1898 AD, ends the Spanish-American War.

1899 AD

Austrian composer Johann Strauss II dies on June 3, 1899 AD. The First Hague Convention is signed on July 27, 1899 AD. The Second Boer War 1899-1902 AD.