Centuries: Year in Review 19th Century (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 1900
Events
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposes a space elevator
Births
- January 1 - J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director
- February 11 - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer.
- April 9 - Mance Lipscomb, popular singer.
- July 12 - Buckminster Fuller, American architect.
- Wilhelm Gustloff, Swiss Nazi party leader.
Deaths
- Frederick Douglass, ex-slave and author.