1889

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • 1886
  • 1887
  • 1888
  • 1889
  • 1890
  • 1891
  • 1892
1889 in various
Minguo calendar
23 before ROC
民前23年
Nanakshahi calendar421
Thai solar calendar2431–2432
Tibetan calendar阳土鼠年
(male Earth-Rat)
2015 or 1634 or 862
    — to —
阴土牛年
(female Earth-Ox)
2016 or 1635 or 863

1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1889th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 889th year of the 2nd millennium, the 89th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1889, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January–March

Rudolf & Maria at Mayerling
.
The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated on March 31, thus becoming the tallest structure in the world
  • tallest structure in the world
    by 130 m (430 ft). Contemporary critics regard it as aesthetically displeasing.

April–June

  • Georges Boulanger
    is forced to flee the country.
  • April 10 – The Hammarby Roddförening (later Hammarby IF) sports club is founded in Sweden.
Land Run

July–September

September 23: Nintendo founded as a playing card manufacturer

October–December

Date unknown

Panama, yellow fever
Capilano Bridge.

Births

January

February

Ernest Tyldesley

March

Oren E. Long

April

Charlie Chaplin
Adolf Hitler
Manuel Prado Ugarteche

May

Ouyang Yuqian
Igor Sikorsky

June

Beno Gutenberg

July

Jean Cocteau
Ante Pavelić

August

September

October

Carl von Ossietzky

November

Claude Rains
Jawaharlal Nehru

December

Robert Maestri

Date unknown

  • Nezihe Muhiddin, Turkish women's rights activist, suffragette, journalist, writer and political leader (d. 1958)

Deaths

January–June

Belle Starr
Youssef Bey Karam
Father Damien

July–December

James Prescott Joule
August Ahlqvist

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