February 14 – In the
FA Cup quarter final in English
Association football, a goal is deliberately stopped by handball on the
goal line. An
indirect free kick is awarded, since the
penalty kick, proposed the previous year by
William McCrum, has not yet been implemented. This event probably changes public opinion on the penalty kick, seen previously as an Irishman's motion.
March 9–
12 – The
Great Blizzard of 1891 in the south and west of England leads to extensive snow drifts and powerful storms off the south coast, with 14 ships sunk, and approximately 220 deaths attributed to the weather conditions.[3]
March 17 – The British steamship
SS Utopia, carrying Italian migrants to New York, sinks in the inner harbor of
Gibraltar after collision with the battleship
HMS Anson, killing 564.[4]
March 18 – The London–Paris telephone system officially opens.[5]
May 5 – The Music Hall in New York (later known as
Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with
Peter Tchaikovsky as guest conductor.[9]
May 20 –
Thomas Edison's prototype
kinetoscope is first displayed at Edison's Laboratory, for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs.
May 31 N.S. (
May 19 O.S.) – In the Kuperovskaya district of
Vladivostok, a grand ceremonial inauguration of construction work on the
Trans-Siberian Railway is carried out by the Tsesarevich Nikolay Alexandrovich, and a religious service held.
July 30 – The Springboks
rugby union team of South Africa play their first international test match against the Lions team of the British Isles, and lose by 4–0.
August 27 – France and Russia conclude a defensive alliance.
^Carroll, Sean B. (2009). Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species. London: Quercus. pp. 90–91.
ISBN978-1-84916-072-8.
^Bellamy, Richard (1993). Gramsci and the Italian state. Manchester, UK New York: Manchester University Press Distributed by St. Martin's Press. p. xiv.
ISBN9780719033421.
^Magill, Frank (1999). Dictionary of world biography. London: Routledge. p. 4045.
ISBN9781579580483.
^David Steinberg (August 1965). "Jose P. Laurel: A "Collaborator" Misunderstood". The Journal of Asian Studies. 24 (4). Cambridge University Press: 651–665.
doi:
10.2307/2051111.
JSTOR2051111.
S2CID159495188.
^"Strongheart's Lineage"(PDF). Sin-Wit-Ki. 11 (3). Yakima, Washington: Yakama Nation Fish and Wildlife Resource Management Program: 12. Fall–Winter 2006. Archived from
the original(PDF) on August 21, 2014. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
^"JOSÉ MARÍA IGLESIAS" (in Spanish). Presidencia de la Republica de Mexico. Archived from
the original on May 30, 2019. Retrieved May 30, 2019.
Sources
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February 14 – In the
FA Cup quarter final in English
Association football, a goal is deliberately stopped by handball on the
goal line. An
indirect free kick is awarded, since the
penalty kick, proposed the previous year by
William McCrum, has not yet been implemented. This event probably changes public opinion on the penalty kick, seen previously as an Irishman's motion.
March 9–
12 – The
Great Blizzard of 1891 in the south and west of England leads to extensive snow drifts and powerful storms off the south coast, with 14 ships sunk, and approximately 220 deaths attributed to the weather conditions.[3]
March 17 – The British steamship
SS Utopia, carrying Italian migrants to New York, sinks in the inner harbor of
Gibraltar after collision with the battleship
HMS Anson, killing 564.[4]
March 18 – The London–Paris telephone system officially opens.[5]
May 5 – The Music Hall in New York (later known as
Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with
Peter Tchaikovsky as guest conductor.[9]
May 20 –
Thomas Edison's prototype
kinetoscope is first displayed at Edison's Laboratory, for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs.
May 31 N.S. (
May 19 O.S.) – In the Kuperovskaya district of
Vladivostok, a grand ceremonial inauguration of construction work on the
Trans-Siberian Railway is carried out by the Tsesarevich Nikolay Alexandrovich, and a religious service held.
July 30 – The Springboks
rugby union team of South Africa play their first international test match against the Lions team of the British Isles, and lose by 4–0.
August 27 – France and Russia conclude a defensive alliance.
^Carroll, Sean B. (2009). Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species. London: Quercus. pp. 90–91.
ISBN978-1-84916-072-8.
^Bellamy, Richard (1993). Gramsci and the Italian state. Manchester, UK New York: Manchester University Press Distributed by St. Martin's Press. p. xiv.
ISBN9780719033421.
^Magill, Frank (1999). Dictionary of world biography. London: Routledge. p. 4045.
ISBN9781579580483.
^David Steinberg (August 1965). "Jose P. Laurel: A "Collaborator" Misunderstood". The Journal of Asian Studies. 24 (4). Cambridge University Press: 651–665.
doi:
10.2307/2051111.
JSTOR2051111.
S2CID159495188.
^"Strongheart's Lineage"(PDF). Sin-Wit-Ki. 11 (3). Yakima, Washington: Yakama Nation Fish and Wildlife Resource Management Program: 12. Fall–Winter 2006. Archived from
the original(PDF) on August 21, 2014. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
^"JOSÉ MARÍA IGLESIAS" (in Spanish). Presidencia de la Republica de Mexico. Archived from
the original on May 30, 2019. Retrieved May 30, 2019.
Sources
Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1891: Embracing Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry (1892); highly detailed compilation of facts and primary documents; worldwide coverage. not online.