Year

England

United States

1889

• Sherman Anti-trust Act Passed

1890

•  Parnell -- O'Shea divorce case ends Parnell's influence; no Home Rule for Ireland.  (2/15 Karen)

• First underground railway in London (2/17 Lindsey)

• Housing of the Working Classes Act (2/17 Rob)

•  Jane Addams establishes Hull House (2/22 Kaitlin)

• Two hundred Sioux are killed by soldiers at Wounded Knee, South Dakota (2/15 Andrea)

1891

•  Thomas Edison patents a motion picture camera, the "kinetoscope," (2/24 Brandon)

1892

•  Homestead Steelworkers strike (3/1 Schrodt)

1893

• Independent Labour Party founded (Michelle 3/1)

• World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago

• Financial Panic of 1893 begins (3/3 Josie)

• Hawaii becomes a U. S. protectorate  (3/3 Shayna)

1894

•  Local Government Act (Kat 3/1)

•  Coxey's Army marches on Washington (3/29 Shayna)

1895

•  Trials of Oscar Wilde

•  Sears Roebuck Company opens catalog business (3/31 Lindsey)

1896

• Daily Mail begins publication (3/15 Josie)

• British reconquest of Sudan (96-98) (3/17 Schrodt)

• Plessy v. Ferguson (Andrea 4/4)

1897

• Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

• Second Colonial Conference in London (3/22 Kat)

• National Union of Women's Suffrage Society founded (3/24 Kaitlin)

•  William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience published(4/14 Karen)

1898

•  Anglo-German Agreement

• Sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana (4/21 Brandon)

• Spanish-American War begins

1899

• Boer war begins

• International Congress of Women meets in London

• Philippine insurrection begins

• Scott Joplin publishes "Maple Leaf Rag" (Michelle 4/26)

1900

• Labour Representation Committee founded

• Conquest of Orange free state and Transvaal

• Boxer Rising in China

• Amalgamation of United Presbyterian Church and Free Church in Scotland

•  Puerto Rico becomes U.S. territory

• Hurricane hits Galveston, TX