1890s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s

Years: 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899

• Motion pictures
• Ragtime music
• Early commercial production of automobiles.
• US scientist P.C. Chamberlain and Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius independently come to the conclusion that burning fossil fuels might cause global warming due to CO2 emissions.
• Second Boer War
• Spanish-American War
• Split in Irish nationalism over Irish leader Charles Stewart Parnell's affair with a fellow MP's wife, Kitty O'Shea[?].
• Accession of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in the world's first ever filmed coronation.

World Leaders

• Emperor Franz Josef (Austria-Hungary)
• Emperor Wilhelm II (Germany)
• Chancellor Leo von Caprivi (Germany)
• King Umberto I (Italy)
• Pope Leo XIII
• Emperor Alexander III (Russia)
• Emperor Nicholas II (Russia)
• Queen Victoria (United Kingdom)
• Prime Minister Lord Salisbury (United Kingdom)
• Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone (United Kingdom)
• Prime Minister Lord Rosebery (United Kingdom)
• President Benjamin Harrison (United States)
• President Grover Cleveland (United States)
• President William McKinley (United States)