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Amérique. 24 février : promulgation de la constitution du Brésil. 7 janvier, Chili : la décision du président du Chili José Manuel Balmaceda de gouverner sans les députés après que la majorité libérale du Parlement s'est divisée sur le choix de son successeur déclenche une révolte menée par des parlementaires soutenus par la ...
Cette page concerne l'année 1891 du calendrier grégorien. Événements. 1 er janvier : prise de Nioro par le colonel Louis Archinard après le départ d’Ahmadou qui se replie au Macina et à Djenné [1]. 28 février : création de l'Office du travail par un décret du Conseil supérieur du travail [2].
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January–March
1. January 1 1.1. A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence. 1.2. Germanytakes formal possession of its new African territories. 2. January 4 – The Earl of Zetlandissues a declaration regarding the famine in the western counties of Ireland. 3. January 5 3.1. The Australian shearers' strike, that leads indirectly to the foundation of the Australian Labor Party, begins. 3.2. A fight between the United Statesand Indians breaks out near Pine Ridge...
April–June
1. April 1 1.1. The Wrigley Companyis founded in Chicago. 1.2. The London–Paris telephone system is opened to the general public. 2. 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 Englishpopulation. 3. April 12 – The first official game in the Association football league of Argentina (1891 Argentine Primera División) is held in Caballito, Buenos Aires. 4. April 23 – Ch...
July–September
1. July 30 – The Springboks rugby unionteam of South Africa play their first international test match against the Lions team of the British Isles, and lose by 4–0. 2. August 27– France and Russia conclude a defensive alliance. 3. September 14 – The first penalty kick is awarded in a football match; John Heath scores it for the Wolverhampton Wanderers. 4. September 18 – The Chilean Civil War of 1891ends. 5. September 22 – The first hydropower plant of Finland was commissioned along the Tammerk...
January–March
1. January 1 – Charles Bickford, American actor (d. 1967) 2. January 7 – Zora Neale Hurston, African-American writer, anthropologist, ethnographer (d. 1960) 3. January 8 – Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1957) 4. January 13 – Miguel Pro, Mexican Jesuit priest, martyr and blessed (d. 1927) 5. January 15 – Ray Chapman, American baseball player (d. 1920) 6. January 22 6.1. Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer, politician (d. 1937) 6.2. Bruno Loerzer, German aviat...
April–June
1. April 2 – Max Ernst, German painter (d. 1976) 2. April 5 – Laura Vicuña, Chilean Roman Catholic holy figure and blessed (d. 1904) 3. April 7 3.1. Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish founder of The Lego Group (d. 1958) 3.2. Minoru Ōta, Japanese admiral (d. 1945) 4. April 13 – Nella Larsen, American novelist (d. 1964) 5. April 14 – B. R. Ambedkar, Indian jurist and politician (d. 1956) 6. April 15 – Wallace Reid, American actor (d. 1923) 7. April 17 – George Adamski, Polish-born alleged UFO travel...
July–September
1. July 5 – John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987) 2. July 7 – Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Imperial Japanese Army general (d. 1945) 3. July 12 – Jetta Goudal, Dutch-American actress (d. 1985) 4. July 18 – Gene Lockhart, Canadian-American actor, singer, and playwright (d. 1957) 5. July 21 – Elmer Ripley, American basketball coach (d. 1982) 6. July 28 – Joe E. Brown, American actor, comedian (d. 1973) 7. July 29 – Bernhard Zondek, German-born Israeli gynecologist, dev...
January–June
1. January 4 – Charles Keene, English artist and illustrator (b. 1823) 2. January 5 – Emma Abbott, American opera singer (b. 1849) 3. January 11 3.1. Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French city planner (b. 1809) 3.2. Carl Johan Thyselius, Swedish politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1811) 4. January 15 – John Wellborn Root, American architect (b. 1850) 5. January 16 – Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836) 6. January 20 – Kalākaua, last reigning King of Hawaii (b. 1836) 7. January 21 7.1. C...
July–December
1. July 1 – Mihail Kogălniceanu, 3rd Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1817) 2. July 4 – Hannibal Hamlin, 15th Vice President of the United States (b. 1809) 3. July 20 – Sir Frederick Weld, 6th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1823) 4. July 24 – Hermann Raster, German-born Forty-Eighter, editor-in-chief of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung (b. 1827) 5. August 12 – James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (b. 1819) 6. August 14 – Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (b. 1803) 7...
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1. Anna Sprengel, German countess (alleged death)
Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1891: Embracing Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Financ...
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1891 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1891st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 891st year of the 2nd millennium, the 91st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1891, the ...
1891 in France. Events from the year 1891 in France . Incumbents. President: Marie François Sadi Carnot. President of the Council of Ministers: Charles de Freycinet. Events. 1 May – Fusillade de Fourmies, nine killed and thirty wounded when troops fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of eight-hour workday in Fourmies. [1]
