1890

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Kaiser Wilhelm II dismisses Otto von Bismarck.
year 1890

Events

January–March

• January 1 - The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony, in the Horn of Africa.
  • The United Mine Workers of America is founded.
• February 9 – The Weather Bureau is established, within the United States Department of Agriculture.
• March 1 - Léon Bourgeois succeeds Jean Antoine Ernest Constans, as French Minister of the Interior.
• March 20 – Kaiser Wilhelm II dismisses Otto von Bismarck.

April–June

• April 14 – At the First International Conference of American States, in Washington D.C., The Commercial Bureau of the American Republics is founded.
• May 1 – A coordinated series of mass rallies and one-day strikes is held throughout many cities and mining towns, in Europe and North America, to demand an eight-hour workday.

• June 16 – Royal Dutch Petroleum, as predecessor of Royal Dutch Shell, a major energy product and sales on worldwide, that founded in Netherlands.

July–September

• July 1
  • Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty: Britain cedes the Heligoland islands (in the German Bight) to Germany, in return for protectorates over Wituland and the Sultanate of Zanzibar (the islands of Pemba and Unguja) in east Africa.
  • 1890 Japanese general election: In the first general election for the House of Representatives of Japan, about 5% of the adult male population elect a lower house of the Diet of Japan, in accordance with the new Meiji Constitution of 1889.
• August – Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Alexander III meet at Narva.
• September 12 – Salisbury, Rhodesia is founded.

October–December

• November 23 – King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir, and his daughter Princess Wilhelmina becomes Queen, causing the end of the personal union of thrones with Luxembourg (which requires a male heir) so that Adolphe, Duke of Nassau becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
• November 29
  • The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and its first Diet convenes.
• December 29 – Wounded Knee Massacre: At Wounded Knee, South Dakota, a Native American camp, the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment tries to disperse the non-violent "Ghost-Dance" which was promised to usher in a new era of power and freedom to Native Americans but is feared as a potential rallying tool for violent rebellion by some in the U.S. government. Shooting begins, and 153 Lakota Sioux and 25 troops are killed; about 150 flee the scene. This is the last tribe to be defeated and confined to a reservation as well as the beginning of the decline of both the American Indian Wars and the American frontier.

Date unknown

• William II of Prussia opposes Bismarck's attempt to renew the law outlawing the Social Democratic Party.
• American geostrategist Alfred Thayer Mahan publishes his influential book The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783.
• Francis Galton announces a statistical demonstration of the uniqueness and classifiability of individual human fingerprints.

 

Events

Event	Start	End
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915
Victorian era	1840	1901

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
University of Tasmania		Public Sandstone university	Focus on maritime and Antarctic studies
Secret Elite		Secret Society	An early 20th century UK deep state. The pseudonym was coined by Jim Macgregor and Gerry Docherty for their 2013 book Hidden History to describe the people who effectively controlled UK foreign policy from about 1890 into the decade following World War I
University of Greenwich		Public	The second-oldest polytechnic in the United Kingdom
Allianz
University of Central Oklahoma		University	Third largest university in Oklahoma
University of Lausanne		University	French-speaking Swiss university
University of Chicago		Private nondenominational coeducational	One of the most important private universities in the USA
University of Oklahoma		Research Public	Public university in Oklahoma
University of North Texas		Flagship state university Land-grant university	Texas university
Taft School		Military ranks School	New England private boarding school.

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Cola Parker	1890		28 June 1962	Lawyer Financier Businessperson	US businessman and John Birch Society leader who attended the 1st and 4th Bilderbergs
Stewart Menzies	30 January 1890	London	29 May 1968	Spook
Claro M. Recto	8 February 1890	Tiaong Tayabas Captaincy General of the Philippines	2 October 1960	Politician	Filipino politician possibly killed by the CIA
Vyacheslav Molotov	9 March 1890	Kukarka Russia/Tsarist Russia	8 November 1986
Frank Murphy	13 April 1890	United States Michigan Harbor Beach	19 July 1949	Politician
Maurice Duplessis	20 April 1890	Canada Quebec Trois-Rivières	7 September 1959	Politician	Premier of Quebec. Died of heart attack, just like his two party successors.
Ho Chi Minh	19 May 1890		2 September 1969	Politician
Ronald Campbell	7 June 1890		22 April 1983	Diplomat	UK diplomat
Ferdinand Eberstadt	19 June 1890		11 November 1969	Lawyer Financier Deep state operative	Instrumental in the creation of the National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency
Charles E. Wilson	18 July 1890	US Ohio Minerva	26 September 1961	Engineer Businessperson
Harry Hopkins	17 August 1890	US Iowa Sioux City	29 January 1946	Social worker Gambler Deep state operative	DSO who ran the Lend-lease project on behalf of the Roosevelt administration.
Richard Casey	29 August 1890	Queensland Brisbane	17 June 1976	Spook Deep politician	Australian who founded ASIS
Marriner Eccles	9 September 1890	United States Utah Logan	18 December 1977	Economist Central banker
Dwight Eisenhower	14 October 1890	United States Texas Denison	28 March 1969	Soldier Politician	Former five-star general, supreme commander of NATO, Eisenhower was the US President who notably warned that "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence... by the military–industrial complex."
George Seldes	16 November 1890		2 July 1995	Journalist Editor
Joseph Dodge	18 November 1890	United States Michigan Detroit	2 December 1964	Financier Economist	US financier and economic advisor who worked on the financial restructuring of Germany after World War II. Attended the 3rd and 4th Bilderbergs
Charles de Gaulle	22 November 1890	France Lille	9 November 1970	Soldier Politician Deep politician	President of France 1959-1969 “In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.”
James Clement Dunn	27 December 1890	United States Newark New Jersey	10 April 1979	Diplomat

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