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The 1st Full Decade of Cinema & Sherlock Holmes-1890 -1899

The 1st Full Decade of Cinema & Sherlock Holmes-1890 -1899

Last updated on: June 3, 2025 at 3:28 am by Mark Wilson

The 1st Full Decade of Cinema & Sherlock Holmes-1890 -1899 2025-06-03T03:28:52-05:00 Mark Wilson

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1889 The Year Of Tolkien’s Wife |
A List Of Famous And Not So Famous People Who Were Born And Who Died In 1889

The 1890’s is the decade that ends the 19th century and precedes the 20th century. It was the first full decade that gave us cinema, the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Coke-a-Cola, The Story of a Soul, The Lizzie Borden murders, several new states that were added to the United States, the Boxer Rebellion and more. If you like history and want to get a quick birds eye view of a unique period of history come and

enter into the 1890’s

where…

Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
was president of the United States
March 4, 1889 -–March 4, 1893

Pope # 256 Leo XIII (March 2, 1810 – July 20, 1903)
was the supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church
Papal Reign from February 20, 1878 – July 20, 1903
(25 years, 150 days)

Now we enter the Gay Nineties

1890

Picture This

c. 1890 –James Tissot The Magi Journeying Brooklyn Museum New York City

1890 – The Mystery of Sleep Noon – Rest from Work by Vincent van Gogh (after Millet) Noon, rest from work – Van Gogh – Sleep – Wikipedia

Walking on Water, by Ivan Aivazovsky (1890)

Christ in Gethsemane (1890)

News of the World

January 2 – Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer in the White House.
February 18 – The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) is founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
May 2 – President Benjamin Harrison signs the Oklahoma Organic Act, under which Oklahoma Territory is organized, a prerequisite for later statehood.
June 1 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith‘s tabulating machine to tabulate census returns using punched card input, a landmark in the history of computing hardware. Hollerith’s company eventually becomes IBM. The 1890 United States census determines the US population to be 62,979,766, an increase of 25.5 percent relative to the 1880 census.
July 3 – Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
July 10 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
September 25 — President Wilford Woodruff of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issues the 1890 Manifesto ending the official practice of polygamy.
October 1 – The Yosemite National Park is established in California.

Arrivals

Robert Ripley, (February 22, 1890 – May 27, 1949)American cartoonist, publisher, and businessman, founded Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
Charles Frederick Urschel (March 7, 1890 – September 26, 1970) was an American oil business tycoon and kidnap victim of George “Machine Gun” Kelly.Urschel eventually helped solve the crime himself by carefully noting every piece of evidence of his whereabouts during his captivity despite being blindfolded, and leaving fingerprints on every surface he could reach. After being released after the ransom was delivered, Urschel was able to supply ample information for the FBI to solve the crime
Stan Laurel (June 16, 1890 – February 23, 1965)
H. P. Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) Horror Writer
Dame Agatha Christie (September 15, 1890 –January 12, 1976) Best Selling Mystery Author
Groucho Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977)
Eddie Rickenbacker (October 8, 1890 – July 23, 1973) was an American fighter pilot in World War I and a Medal of Honor recipient.[1][2] With 26 aerial victories, he was the most successful and most decorated United States flying ace of the war. He was also a racing driver, an automotive designer, and a long-time head of Eastern Air Lines.
Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson (October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as Sister Aimee or Sister, was a Canadian Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, famous for founding the Foursquare Church.
St. Maria Goretti (October 16, 1890 – July 6, 1902: Aged 11)

Departures

Carlo Collodi (November 24, 1826 – October 26, 1890),
Henri Nestlé (August 10, 1814 – July 7, 1890)
Vincent van Gogh,(March 30, 1853 – July 29, 1890)
John Henry Newman (February 21, 1801 –August 11, 1890)
Michael Joseph McGivney (August 12, 1852 – August 14, 1890)
Louis Le Prince (August 28, 1841 – disappeared September 16, 1890,declared dead 16 September 1897)
Sitting Bull (c. 1837 – December 15, 1890)

Hey A Movie

London’s Trafalgar Square is an 1890 British short silent actuality film, shot by inventors and film pioneers Wordsworth Donisthorpe and William Carr Crofts at approximately 10 frames per second with an oval or circular frame on celuloid film using their ‘kinesigraph’ camera, showing traffic at Trafalgar Square in London. The surviving ten frames of film are the earliest known motion picture of the city. London’s Trafalgar Square | W. Donisthorpe & W. C. Crofts | 1890 (youtube.com)

Publications Hot of the Press

July 13, 1890 – Ambrose Bierce‘s short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge“, one of his best known works, is first published, in The San Francisco Examiner.
July–August – Bram Stoker holidays with his family at Whitby on the north-east coast of England and from the library there reads William Wilkinson’s An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, all of which feed into his composition of Dracula
Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Firm of Girdlestone
- The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes book-length story originally published as The Sign of the Four in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine dated February)
Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine dated July)

Good Sports

November 29, 1890— The first Army–Navy Game is played. Navy wins 24–0.
Formation of the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques (USFSA), the principal governing body of football in France until 1919 when it is superseded by the Fédération Française de Football (FFF).

Sanctifying Time

Saint John Damascene is proclaimed Doctor of the Church
Catholicae Ecclesiae – On Slavery in the Missions, by Pope Leo XIII, 20 November 1890

The Sound of Music and Other Cultural Milestones

January 15, 1890 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky‘s The Sleeping Beauty (ballet) premieres at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.
January–June period, 1890 – George W. Johnson becomes the first African American to record phonograph cylinders, in New York.
Star of the East (1890) originally named “Stern über Bethlehem” is a popular Christmas carol.

1891

Picture This

Christ watches over the Apostles (1891)

Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!) (1891) was the first of many jungle scenes for which Rousseau is best known.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)
The Goose Girl (1891)

News of the World

January 29 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii.
March 9–12 – The Great Blizzard of 1891 in the south and west of England leads to extensive snow drifts and powerful storms off the south coast, with 14 ships sunk, and approximately 220 deaths attributed to the weather conditions.
May – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claims to be the Promised Messiah (the second coming of Jesus) and the Mahdi awaited in Islam.
June 21 – The first long-distance transmission of alternating current is made, from the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado, by Lucien and Paul Nunn.
December 22 – Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.