1890, year

1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter E) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Julian calendar, the 1890 th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 890th year of the 2nd millennium, the 90th year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1890, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1918.

Events on earth

In Michigan, the wooden steamer Mackinaw burns in a fire on the Black River The British steamship Duburg is wrecked in the South China Sea: 400 lives are lost Kaiser Wilhelm II dismisses Otto von Bismarck. The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to tabulate census returns using punched card input, a landmark in the history of computing hardware. Hollerith's company eventually becomes IBM. The first deep level London Underground (Tube) Railway, the City and South London Railway, opens officially.

The Sixty two rebels that formed from the abductees taken by the Freons in 1870 manage to steal a spaceship and vanish to an unknown fate