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4 March: Forth Bridge is opened. 4 January – first edition of the Daily Graphic, the first British 'picture paper'. [1]11 January – the British government delivers an ultimatum to Portugal forcing the retreat of Portuguese military forces from land between Portuguese colonies of Mozambique and Angola.
The 1890s (pronounced "eighteen-nineties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1890, and ended on December 31, 1899. In American popular culture, the decade would later be nostalgically referred to as the "gay nineties" ("gay" meaning carefree or cheerful). In the British Empire, the 1890s epitomised the late ...
The great depression of British agriculture occurred during the late nineteenth century and is usually dated from 1873 to 1896. [1] Contemporaneous with the global Long Depression, Britain's agricultural depression was caused by the dramatic fall in grain prices that followed the opening up of the American prairies to cultivation in the 1870s and the advent of cheap transportation with the ...
Articles and events specifically related to the decade 1890s in the United Kingdom. Subcategories This category has the following 25 subcategories, out of 25 total.
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1890s disestablishments in the British Empire (13 C) 1890s establishments in the British Empire (36 C, 2 P) 0–9. 1890 in the British Empire (17 C)
There was no catastrophic epidemic or famine in England or Scotland in the nineteenth century—it was the first century in which a major epidemic did not occur throughout the whole country, and deaths per 1000 of population per year in England and Wales fell from 21.9 from 1848 to 1854 to 17 in 1901 (cf, for instance, 5.4 in 1971). [6]
1890s; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. / 1890 disestablishments in England (9 P) ...