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Technology
Early commercial production of automobiles.
Science
Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity
Discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen
Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius and US geologist Thomas Crowder Chamberlain independently come to the conclusion that burning fossil fuels might cause global warming due to carbon dioxide emissions
War, peace and politics
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
The New Imperialism
Culture, religion
Motion pictures
Ragtime music
Accession of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in the world's first ever filmed coronation
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People
World Leaders
Prime Minister John Sparrow David Thompson (Canada)
Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier (Canada)
Emperor Franz Josef (Austria-Hungary)
Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany)
Chancellor Leo von Caprivi (Germany)
King Umberto I (Italy)
Pope Leo XIII
Czar Alexander III (Russia)
Czar 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)
Important People
Thomas A. Edison
Entertainers
Adelina Patti
George W. Johnson
Justin Smith
Jonathan Booth
Books about the 1890s
The Mauve Decade, by Thomas Beer (1926)
See Also
Gay Nineties
Category:1890s
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