Transatlantic 1890s Calendar Assignments Resources

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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

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

1892

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  •  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

 Transatlantic 1890s Calendar Assignments Resources