1891 Timeline

1891 Carnegie Hall Built
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th S...
1891 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' is Published
In this story, the main character is introduced by Lady Windermere to Mr Septimus R. Podgers , a chiromantist, who reads his palm and tells him that it is in his future that he will be a ...
1891 Nikola Tesla Patents the Tesla Coil
A Tesla coil is a type of resonant transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla around 1891. It is used to produce high voltage, low current, high frequency alternating current electricit...
1891 Oscar Wilde Meets Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
In the summer of 1891, Oscar met Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas, the third son of the Marquis of Queensberry. Bosie was well acquainted with Oscar's novel “Dorian Gray” and was an undergradu...
1891 Jan 7 Zora Neale Hurston Is Born
Novelist, folklorist, dramatist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891, in Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated black town in the United States. The dia...
1891 Jan 26 Nikolaus Otto dies
Nikolaus Otto worked as a traveling salesman until he became fascinated by his era's breakthroughs in gas and steam engines, especially Étienne Lenoir's development of an engine fueled by...
1891 Jan 26 'The Duchess of Padua' Opens in New York
Wilde finishes his second play, the five-act poetic drama The Duchess of Padua, and sends it off to an American manager who had contracted for it. But it is rejected both by the manager a...
1891 Apr 7 P. T. Barnum Dies
One of the requests made by Mr. Barnum was that, when all hope was gone, sedatives which would make his passage to the next world more peaceful be administered. About 4 o'clock this morni...
1891 Jun 12 Mohandes Gandhi Returns to India from London After Passing the Bar
A great shock lay in store for him when he landed at Bombay. His mother had died while he was in England. It was only natural that he should have been anxious to justify the hopes of his ...
1891 Jul 30 Nikola Tesla becomes a citizen of the United States
On 30 July 1891, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States at the age of 35. Tesla established his 35 South Fifth Avenue laboratory in New York in the same year. Later, Tesla e...
1891 Aug 13 Ethel Carow Roosevelt Is Born
Ethel Carow Roosevelt was born in Oyster Bay, New York to Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow. From an early age, young Ethel Carow showed practical leadership qualities. Her father...
1891 Oct 14 Sarah Winnemucca, Whose Paiute Indian Name Is Thocmetony Or Shell Flower, Dies
Sarah Winnemucca, whose Paiute* Indian name was Thocmetony or Shell Flower, died at her sister's home in Henry's Lake, Nevada on October 14, 1891. Winnemucca was the first Native American...