1891

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s

Years: 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 - 1891 - 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896

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Events

• May 20 - first public display of Thomas Alva Edison's kinetoscope (see Film history).
• June 16 - John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
• June 21 - first long-distance transmission of Alternating current by the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado by Lucien and Paul Nunn.
• December 29 - Thomas Edison patents the radio

Births

• January 8 - Walter Bothe, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954 (+ 1957)
• February 11 - J W Hearne English cricket player.
• April 13 - Nella Larsen, African-American novelist.
• April 23 - Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer
• June 9 - Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter
• November 14 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine, 1923
• November 15 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshal
• December 26 - Henry Miller, writer

Deaths

• July 4 - Hannibal Hamlin, US politician.
• October 15 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, writer.
• November 10 - Arthur Rimbaud, poet