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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 ...
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 Gay Nineties is an American nostalgic term and a periodization of the history of the United States referring to the decade of the 1890s.It is known in the United Kingdom as the Naughty Nineties, and refers there to the decade of supposedly decadent art of Aubrey Beardsley, the witty plays and trial of Oscar Wilde, society scandals and the beginning of the suffragette movement.
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 ...
Anglo-American cooperation fell to the lowest point since the 1890s. [ 124 ] [ 125 ] [ 126 ] However, the new prime minister Harold Macmillan (1957–1963) restored good terms with Eisenhower and President John F. Kennedy (1961–1963).
In the mid-1890s, notes Paul Campos of the University of Colorado Boulder, per-capita gross domestic product shrank from $6,400 to $5,500 (in 2017 dollars). As of the second quarter this year, it ...
March 3 – The first American football game in Ohio State University history is played in Delaware, Ohio against Ohio Wesleyan University; Ohio State wins 20–14. March 8 – North Dakota State University is founded in Fargo, North Dakota. March 27 – A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 people and injuring 200.
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1800 AD until 1899 AD. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related History of the British Isles.