1890s Facts for Kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s – 1890s – 1900s 1910s 1920s
Years:	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

Events

May 19, 1890 – Ho Chi Minh, prime minister (1946–1955) and president (1955–1969) of North Vietnam
September 15, 1890 – Agatha Christie, English writer
October 2, 1890 – Groucho Marx, American comedian
October 14, 1890 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, president of the United States 1953–1961
November 22, 1890 – Charles de Gaulle, president of France 1958–1969
June 9, 1891 – Cole Porter, American musician
January 3, 1892 – J.R.R. Tolkien, English author
May 7, 1892 – Josip Broz Tito, president of Yugoslavia 1953–1980
December 26, 1893 – Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China

From left, clockwise: Union workers at a Carnegie Steel plant go on a strike later known as the Homestead Strike in 1892; Plessy v. Ferguson establishes the doctrine of racial segregation and leads to Jim Crow laws; USS Maine sinks in Havana Harbor in 1898 sparking the Spanish-American War; U.S. pays $20 million to get the Philippines from Spain in the Treaty of Paris; a cartoon mocks the Cross of Gold speech given by William Jennings Bryan who argues against the gold standard; Panic of 1893 instigates an economic depression which lasts for most of the 1890s; Thomas Edison invents the kinetograph, an early example of motion-picture technology; US Marines hoist a US flag during the land campaign of Cuba in the Spanish-American War.
A typical gold mining operation, on Bonanza Creek.
World's Columbian Exposition, 1893
1895 Benz Velo. Along with its contemporary Duryea Motor Wagon, those vehicles were considered the earliest standardized cars. The 1890s also saw further developments in the history of the automobile.
Panhard-Levassor (1890–1895). This model was the first automobile to circulate in Portugal
Charles Kayser of the Edison lab seated behind the Kinetograph. Portability was not among the camera's virtues.
First edition cover of The Time Machine (1895)
Oscar Wilde
Arthur Conan Doyle
Rudyard Kipling
H. G. Wells
Mark Twain
Lewis Carroll
Tchaikovsky
Johannes Brahms
Richard Strauss
Paul Dukas
Claude Debussy