September 14th 1891 – The first penalty kick is awarded in a football (soccer) match; John Heath scores it for the Wolverhampton Wanderers.

September 19th 1891 - "The Merchant of Venice" was performed for the first time at Manchester.

October 1st 1891 – Stanford University opens its doors in California.

October 28th 1891 – The Mino–Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.

January 1st 1892 – Ellis Island opens to begin processing immigrants into the United States.

January 1st 1892 – Ellis Island opens to begin processing immigrants into the United States.

Interesting. O0

January 15th 1892 - In Springfield, MA, the rules of "basketball" by James Naismith were printed in the "Triangle" newspaper.

March 15th 1892 – Liverpool Football Club is founded

April 15th 1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.

May 5th 1892 - The U.S. Congress extended the Geary Chinese Exclusion Act for 10 more years. The act required Chinese in the U.S. to be registered or face deportation.

June 30th 1892 – The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

July 4th 1892 - The first double-decked streetcar service was inaugurated in San Diego, CA.

July 4th 1892 – Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.

August 10th 1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.

September 22nd 1892 – Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle and the TV serial Lost.

September 26th 1892 - John Philip Sousa and his band played the "Liberty Bell March" in Plainfield, NJ.

September 28th 1892 - The first night time football game in the U.S. took place under electric lights. The game was between the Mansfield State Normal School and the Wyoming Seminary.

October 8th 1892 - Sergei Rachmaninoff performed "Prelude in C-sharp Minor" publicly for the first time in Moscow.

November 3rd 1892 - The first automatic telephone went into service at LaPorte, IN. The device was invented by Almon Strowger.

November 8th 1892 - Grover Cleveland (Democrat) is elected President of the USA.

November 12th 1892 - Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pittsburgh Athletic Club, 4-0 in football.

May 1st 1893 – The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.

October 3rd 1893 - The motor-driven vacuum cleaner was patented by J.S. Thurman.

November 1st 1893 - An Act of Congress declares bi-metallism (gold and silver as money) to be the policy of the United States.

November 7th 1893 – Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.

December 15th 1893 - Anton Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 in E-minor, Opus 95, "From the New World," was performed in New York City during a "public rehearsal" at Carnegie Hall. The official world premier was the next day.

My favourite non-Beethoven symphony.

December 23rd 1893 – The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.

May 11th 1894: Approximately 4,000 Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.

May 22nd 1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.

June 15th 1894 - Philadelphia Phillies beat Cincinnati Reds, 21-8.

July 2nd 1894 - US government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers.

August 25th 1894 – Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.

August 31st 1894 - Philadelphia Phillies' Billy Hamilton steals 7 bases.

September 15th 1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.

September 17th 1894 – Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.

November 1st 1894 - "Billboard Advertising" was published for the first time. It later became known as "Billboard."

November 1st 1894 – Thomas Edison films American sharpshooter Annie Oakley, which is instrumental in her hiring by Buffalo Bill for his Wild West Show.

December 22nd 1894: Claude Debussy's first orchestral masterpiece "Prélude à l'apres-midi d'un faune" premieres in Paris.

Also on that day: United States Golf Association forms in New York.

January 12th 1895 - The first performance of King Arthur took place at the Lyceum Theatre, London.

January 13th 1895 – First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.

January 15th 1895 - Albert Trott takes  a bowling record 8-43 on cricket Test debut for England against Australia.

January 22nd 1895 - The National Association of Manufacturers was organized in Cincinnati, Ohio

January 30th 1895 - With the US Treasury gold reserve at $22 million, about 11 days from bankruptcy, President Grover Cleveland makes a deal with financier J.P. Morgan, to sell a US bond issue at 3.75 percent interest to the Rothschilds and others in London, with Morgan being given a free hand to run the country for a month.

January 30th 1895 - With the US Treasury gold reserve at $22 million, about 11 days from bankruptcy, President Grover Cleveland makes a deal with financier J.P. Morgan, to sell a US bond issue at 3.75 percent interest to the Rothschilds and others in London, with Morgan being given a free hand to run the country for a month.
Holy cow...he literally sold the country to that guy? :o

Holy cow...he literally sold the country to that guy? :o
Can you imagine that happening today?

February 4th 1895 - The Van Buren Street Bridge opened in Chicago, IL.

February 9th 1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.

February 24th 1895 – Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.

March 19th 1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.

March 19th 1895 - The Los Angeles Railway was established to provide streetcar service.

March 19th 1895 – Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.

March 25th 1895 - Italian troops invaded Abyssinia (Ethiopia).

April 3rd 1895 – The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.

April 8th 1895 – In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.

April 15th 1895 - Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 pounds (record).

April 21st 1895 - Woodville Latham and his sons demonstrated their Panopticon. It was the first movie projector developed in the United States.

April 23rd 1895 - Russia, France, and Germany forced Japan to return the Liaodong peninsula to China.

April 24th 1895 – Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".

May 7th 1895 – In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.

May 25th 1895 – Playwright, poet, novelist and aesthete Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.

May 25th 1895 - James P. Lee first published "Gold in America -- A Practical Manual."

May 25th 1895 – The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president.

June 1st 1895 - In Paris, France, the first recorded automobile theft occurred. The Peugeot of Baron de Zuylen de Nyevelt was stolen by his mechanic.

June 11th 1895 - Charles E. Duryea received the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.

August 31st 1895 - First pro football game (quarterback John Brallier is paid $10 and won 12-0).

August 31st 1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.

September 7th 1895 – The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.

September 18th 1895 – The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.

October 8th 1895 – Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.

October 21st 1895 – The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.

October 22nd 1895 – In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100 ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33 ft) to the road below.

November 5th 1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.

November 8th 1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.

December 10, 1895: The Laramie Daily Boomerang publishes E. T. Payton’s letter, “State Insane Asylum,” detailing abuses being perpetrated there.

January 4th 1896 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.

March 1st 1896: Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.

April 15th 1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.

May 18th 1896 - The U.S. Supreme court upheld the "separate but equal" policy in the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision. The ruling was overturned 58 years later with Brown vs. Board of Education.

June 2nd 1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.

April 30th 1897: J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.

September 1st 1897 – The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.

January 13th 1898 - Emile Zola publishes his open letter "J'accuse!" accusing the French government of framing Alfred Dreyfus for sabotage.

January 13th 1898 - Emile Zola publishes his open letter "J'accuse!" accusing the French government of framing Alfred Dreyfus for sabotage.
To continue on the theme...

February 7th 1898 – Dreyfus affair: Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse…! 

To continue on the theme...

February 7th 1898 – Dreyfus affair: Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse…! 

Oh! :o

June 12th 1898 – Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.

June 13th 1898 – Yukon Territory was formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.

June 22nd 1898 – Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps began landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles (26 km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings.

July 3rd 1898 – A Spanish squadron, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is defeated by an American squadron under William T. Sampson in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.

July 7th 1898 – US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.

August 12th 1898 – The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ‘Iolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States where it is formally recognized as Hawaii.

February 22nd 1899 – Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.

March 6th 1899 – Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.

December 2nd 1899 – Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, known as the "Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.

January 2nd 1900 – Chicago Canal (now called the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal) opens.

January 5th 1900 – Irish nationalist leader John Edward Redmond calls for revolt against British rule.

January 6th 1900 – Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.

January 14th 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's Tosca opens in Rome.

February 9th 1900 – The Davis Cup competition is established.

February 18th 1900 – Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg. :o :\'(