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Events from the year 1891 in the United States. First Baptist Church in Lake City, Colorado , built in 1891 Santa Fe Railroad Depot, Orange, California in 1891 Adams Memorial by Augustus Saint-Gaudens , built in 1891, Washington, D.C.
1890 – National American Woman Suffrage Association founded; 1890 - Reporter Nelly Bly circles globe by train and steamship in 72 days; 1891 – Baltimore crisis; 1891 – James Naismith invents basketball; 1891 - Hamlin Garland publishes Main-Travelled Roads; 1892 – Homestead Strike; 1892 – General Electric Company founded
The incident is noteworthy as the engagement in military history in which the most Medals of Honor have been awarded in the military history of the United States. This was the last tribe to be invaded which broke the backbone of the American Indian Wars and the American Frontier. [9] In 1891 the Chilean Civil War was fought from January to ...
1891 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1891st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 891st year of the 2nd millennium, the 91st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1891, the ...
This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899.Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.
July 12 – Frederick Jackson Turner gives a lecture titled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" before the American Historical Association in Chicago. [2] July 22 – Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful", after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak, near Colorado Springs.
July 4 – Katharine Lee Bates' lyrics for "America the Beautiful" are first published. July 6 – Van Cortlandt Golf Course opens in The Bronx as the country's first and oldest public golf course. [1] August 19 – American frontier murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
1891 Dow process. The Dow process is the electrolytic method of bromine extraction from brine, and was Herbert Henry Dow's second revolutionary process for generating bromine commercially in 1891. [20] 1891 Tesla coil. A Tesla coil is a type of resonant transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla around 1891. Nikola Tesla used these coils to ...