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List of 1891 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1891

What happened in the year 1891?

Date Event
January 29, 1891 Liliʻuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
January 31, 1891 History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
March 3, 1891 Shoshone National Forest is established as the first national forest in the US and world.
March 10, 1891 Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
March 17, 1891 SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
April 23, 1891 Chilean Civil War: The ironclad Blanco Encalada is sunk at Caldera Bay by torpedo boats.[3]
May 5, 1891 The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
May 15, 1891 Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
May 16, 1891 The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opened in Frankfurt, Germany, featuring the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).
May 20, 1891 History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
July 26, 1891 France annexes Tahiti.
August 16, 1891 The Basilica of San Sebastian, Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
August 18, 1891 A major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
September 22, 1891 The first hydropower plant of Finland was commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa.[1]
October 1, 1891 Stanford University opens its doors in California, United States.
October 28, 1891 The Mino–Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, occurs.
December 22, 1891 Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.