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1890 - Kaiser Wilhelm II gives Otto von Bismark the old heave-ho. Idaho and Wyoming become the 43rd and 44th U.S. States. Vincent van Gogh, greatest painter the world has ever seen, commits suicide. Corrugated cardboard is invented. Ho Chi Minh, Grouch Marx, Dwight Eisenhower and Jelly Roll Morton are born.
1889 - March 31
The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated
1887 - In one of the most serious miscariages of justice in US history, August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, Louis Lingg, Michael Schwab, and Samuel Fielden are hanged for inciting riot and murder in the Haymarket Riot, in which a bomb thrown by persons unknown killed eight policemen. No evidence was ever presented that any of them had anything to do with the bomb and one of them, Spies, was not present at the demonstration. They were, plain and simple, executed for organising the Haymarket rally and for being anarchists. All seven are pardoned by Illinois governor John Peter Altgeld six years later when they are dead and it is of no use to them.
1886 - Chicago - The Haymarket Riots
1887 - The Japanese company Yamaha is founded.
1888>>>>>>>>>>>nice one!
1886
Can't believe 1888 went by without a reference to Jack the Ripper!
The Year at a glance:
January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
January 29 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
February 14 - First trainload of oranges left Los Angeles via the transcontinental railroad.
March ? - Linfield F.C. is formed in Belfast
March 17 - Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed in Mississippi.
April 25 - Easter occurs on latest possible date (next in 1943)
May 1 - the start of the general strike in the United States which escalated into Haymarket Riot and eventually won the eight-hour workday in the U.S.
May 4 - Emil Berliner started working on inventing the gramophone.
May 8 - Pharmacist Dr. John Stith Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would be named "Coca-Cola."
May 10 - The Football Association approves N. L. Jackson's proposal that each player be awarded a cap for each international match in which he plays.
May 29 - Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise Coca-Cola (ad in the Atlanta Journal).
June 2 - U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the first and only president to wed in the executive mansion. She is 27 years his junior.
June 10 - Eruption of Mount Tarawera volcano in New Zealand, resulting in the deaths of over 150 people and the destruction of the famous Pink and White Terraces.
June 30 - Royal Holloway, University of London opened by Queen Victoria in Surrey United Kingdom.
July 25 ? Steve Brodie fakes a jump from the Brooklyn Bridge
June 13 - A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
August 4 ? William Ewart Gladstone fails to secure enough support for the Irish Home Rule in the British parliament
August 20 - A massive hurricane demolishes the town of Indianola, Texas
August 31 - Huge Earthquake hits South Carolina USA. Earthquake rods installed afterwards... Much Damage.
September 4 - Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his last band of warriors to General Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.
September 15 - First day of school in the newly founded Alhambra School District.
October 7 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba.
October 28 - In New York Harbor, US President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
November 30 - Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
1885
Jan 26 - Death of General Gordon in Khartoum, Soudan.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City on October 11, 1884, daughter of lovely Anna Hall and Elliott Roosevelt, younger brother of Theodore.
1883
Feb. 28. 1st US vaudeville theater opens (Boston)
May 6 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Speckled Band" (BG)
July 3 Franz Kafka born on Czech, author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika)
Aug. 1 Inland postal service begins in Great Britain
Aug 26 Krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions kills 36,000
1882
April 3 - Old West outlaw Jesse James, passing under the name of Howard, is shot in the back and killed in his own home by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward. Strangely, Bob Ford and his brother put on a stage play entitled "How I Killed Jesse James." It was not a success. Bob Ford lived to hear himself vilified as " The dirty little coward who shot Mr. Howard and laid poor Jesse in his grave." Ford was latter shot and killed himself for mouthing off to the wrong man while drunk.
1881:
Louis Pasteur discovers a vaccine for anthrax
January 25 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
April 28 - Billy the Kid escapes from New Mexico jail.
July 20 - Indian Wars: Sioux chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford in Montana.
October 26 - Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, USA.
November 19 - A meteorite struck earth near the village of Großliebenthal, a few kilometers southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
1880
February 2 - The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana.
May 13 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
July 1 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada.
July 16 - First woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada - Dr. Emily Howard Stowe.
August 30 - First complete railroad trip made from Houston to New Orleans on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad.
October - terrible winter storm in North America, the "Blizzard of 1880".
October 15 - Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
November - James Garfield defeats Winfield S. Hancock in the U.S. presidential election.
November 4 - The first cash register was patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio.
November 11 - Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly is hanged in Melbourne. Known as "The Knight in Rusty Armor" for the bullet-proof armor he had made for himself and his gang. Kelly was the only man strong enough to wear a full suit. They got him by shooting him in the unprotected legs.
December 20 - Action at Bronkhorstspruit, the first major action of the First Boer War.
1879................
....... Jan 8 - General Roberts occupies Kandahar
Jan 22 - Zulus trounce British at Isandhwala
June 26 - Khedive of Egypt deposed
Aug 28 - Cetewayo, king of Zulus, captured
Oct 12 - Roberts occupies Kabul
Dec 28 - Tay bridge disaster