1890s


Events and Trends

   * Motion pictures
   * Ragtime music
   * Early commercial production of automobiles.
   * Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius and US geologist T.C. Chamberlain
     independently come to the conclusion that burning fossil fuels might
     cause global warming due to CO2 emissions.
   * Second Boer War
   * Spanish-American War
   * Split in Irish nationalism over Irish leader Charles Stewart Parnell's
     affair with a fellow MP's wife, Kitty O'Shea.
   * Accession of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in the world's first ever
     filmed coronation.
   * The New Imperialism

World Leaders

   * Emperor Franz Josef (Austria-Hungary)
   * Emperor Wilhelm II (Germany)
   * Chancellor Leo von Caprivi (Germany)
   * King Umberto I (Italy)
   * Pope Leo XIII
   * Emperor Alexander III (Russia)
   * Emperor Nicholas II (Russia)
   * Queen Victoria (United Kingdom)
   * Prime Minister Lord Salisbury (United Kingdom)
   * Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone (United Kingdom)
   * Prime Minister Lord Rosebery (United Kingdom)
   * President Benjamin Harrison (United States)
   * President Grover Cleveland (United States)
   * President William McKinley (United States)