1891

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( 1890s: )     1891

“One wintry afternoon in February 1891, three men were engaged in earnest conversation in London. From that conversation were to flow consequences of the greatest importance to the British Empire and to the world as a whole. For these men were organizing a secret society that was for more than fifty years to be one of the most important forces in the formulation and execution of British imperial and foreign policy.”

Events

January–March

• January 1 – Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany.
• January 5 – The Australian shearers' strike, that leads indirectly to the foundation of the Australian Labor Party, begins.
• January 29 –– Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii (the last ruler before the US annexation).
• March 3 – The International Copyright Act of 1891 is passed, by the 51st United States Congress.
• March 14 – In New Orleans, a lynch mob storms the Old Parish Prison, and lynches 11 Italians arrested but found innocent of the murder of Police Chief David Hennessy.
• March 18 – The London–Paris telephone system officially opens.
• April 1 – The London–Paris telephone system is opened to the general public.
• April 5 – Census in the United Kingdom: 15.6 million people live in cities of 20,000 or more in England and Wales, and cities of 20,000 or more account for 54% of the total English population.
• May 11 – Ōtsu incident: Tsesarevich Nikolay Alexandrovich (the future Czar Nicholas II) of Russia survives an assassination attempt, while visiting Japan.
• May 31 N.S. (May 19 O.S.) – In the Kuperovskaya district of Vladivostok, a grand ceremonial inauguration of construction work on the Trans-Siberian Railway is carried out by the Tsesarevich Nikolay Alexandrovich, and a religious service held.
• June 21 – The first long-distance transmission of alternating current is made, by the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado, by Lucien and Paul Nunn.
• July 10 – Erik Gustaf Boström becomes Prime Minister of Sweden.
• August 27 – France and Russia conclude a defensive alliance.
• September 29 – Thyssen, as predecessor of Thyssen Krupp, a conglomerate in worldwide, founded in Duisburg, Germany.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author
UK/Deep state	“One wintry afternoon in February 1891, three men were engaged in earnest conversation in London. From that conversation were to flow consequences of the greatest importance to the British Empire and to the world as a whole. For these men were organizing a secret society that was for more than fifty years to be one of the most important forces in the formulation and execution of British imperial and foreign policy.”	Carroll Quigley

 

Events

Event	Start	End
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915
Victorian era	1840	1901

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Robert Koch Institute			German federal agency charged with preventing disease outbreaks
University of Gothenburg		Public	A strong tradition of research innovation
Hotchkiss School			US Establishment boarding school.
North Greenville University			Religious Southern Baptist institution
Central Washington University		Public	Small regional Washington State university
George Fox University		Military ranks	Founded by Quakers, still a center for Quaker thought.
Moritz College of Law			The law school of Ohio State University,
University of London/Goldsmiths			Constituent college of the University of London specialising in the arts, design, humanities, and social sciences
New York Law School

 

A Group that was Wound Up

Group	Image	Type
Russell & Company		Commercial

 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Summary	Description
Granville Leveson-Gower	11 May 1815	31 March 1891	London		British Secretary of State who improved relations with the United States
Alphonso Taft	5 November 1810	21 May 1891	US San Diego Cambridge Analytica	Politician	an American jurist, diplomat and politician

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Boris Morros	1 January 1891		8 January 1963	Spook Producer
Prodromos Bodosakis-Athanasiadis	1891	Turkey Poros	1979	Spook Deep politician Businessperson	Greek self-made businessman with top politicians in his pocket
Louis A. Johnson	10 January 1891	United States Virginia Roanoke	24 April 1966	Lawyer
John Masterman	12 January 1891		6 June 1977	Spook Athlete
Walter Monckton	17 January 1891		9 January 1965		UK/Minister of Defence 1955-56
Frank Costello	26 January 1891		18 February 1973	Crime boss
Antonio Segni	2 February 1891	Italy Sassari Sardinia	1 December 1972	Spook Politician
Raffaele Cafiero	12 February 1891	Italy Melfi	10 July 1959	Politician	Italian monarchist politician who attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s
Gus Wortham	18 February 1891		1 September 1976
Earl Warren	19 March 1891	United States Los Angeles California	9 July 1974		US chief justice. Blackmailed to go along with The Cabal's Warren Commision cover up of the JFK assassination
Paul Hoffman	26 April 1891	United States Illinois Western Springs	8 October 1974	Deep state functionary Businessperson	Five time early Bilderberger, UNDP administrator
Henry Morgenthau Jr	11 May 1891	New York United States	6 February 1967	Financier
Roger Auboin	15 May 1891	Paris	16 October 1974	Central banker	Managing director of the Bank for International Settlements between 1938 and 1958.
Sid Richardson	25 May 1891	Texas Athens	30 September 1959	Businessperson
Anders Jahre	28 May 1891		26 February 1982	Shipping magnate Deep state actor	Norwegian shipping magnate who owned the hotel where the 1982 Bilderberg was held.
Guy Tugwell	10 July 1891	New York Sinclairville	21 July 1979	Economist
Lewis Rosenstiel	21 July 1891	Ohio Cincinnati	21 January 1976	Criminal Sexual blackmail Businessperson	Gangster, businessman, philanthropist and sexual blackmailer.
Wickliffe Draper	9 August 1891	Massachusetts Hopedale	1972	Eugenics
Frido von Senger und Etterlin	4 September 1891		9 January 1963	Soldier	General in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II, who helped rebuild the German army after the war. Attended Königswinter conferences and the 1959 Bilderberg.
Carl Burckhardt	10 September 1891	Switzerland Basel	3 March 1974	Diplomat Historian	President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (1945–48), where he assisted Germans wanted for war crimes escape to South America. September 1955 and 1956 Bilderberg meetings.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger	12 September 1891		11 December 1968
Rafael Trujillo	24 October 1891	Dominican Republic San Cristóbal	30 May 1961	Soldier	President of the Dominican Republic - assassinated with weapons supplied by the CIA
Marjorie Maxse	26 October 1891		3 May 1975	Spook
Desmond Morton	13 November 1891	London Hyde Park Gate	31 July 1971	Spook Deep politician	An almost unknown and yet crucial British spymaster in the first half of the 20th century.
W. Averell Harriman	15 November 1891	New York United States	26 July 1986	Financier
Edward Bernays	22 November 1891	Vienna Austria-Hungary	9 March 1995	Propagandist	Nephew of Sigmund Freud and the father of 20th century propaganda techniques.
Pierre Ryckmans	23 November 1891	Belgium Antwerp	18 February 1959	Civil servant	Governor-General of Belgian Congo for 12 years
Antoine Pinay	30 December 1891	France Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise Rhône	13 December 1994	Politician Deep politician	Multi-Bilderberg French deep politician, chairman and eponymous head of the Pinay Cercle

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