What Happened in 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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

'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... Read more

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... Read more

'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.... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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.... Read more