• Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1889. 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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  • The following is an overview of the events of 1889 in film, including a list of films released and notable births. Eastman Kodak is the first company to...
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  • Space: 1889 is a tabletop role-playing game of Victorian-era space-faring, created by Frank Chadwick and originally published by Game Designers' Workshop...
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    The Exposition Universelle of 1889 (French pronunciation: [ɛkspozisjɔ̃ ynivɛʁsɛl]), better known in English as the 1889 Paris Exposition, was a world's...
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    The 1889–1890 pandemic, often referred to as the "Asiatic flu" or "Russian flu", was a worldwide respiratory viral pandemic. It was the last great pandemic...
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    elections during 1888 or in 1889 before March 4. In these regular elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning March 4, 1889; ordered by state. All...
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  • The 1889–90 Football League was the second season of English league football, with Preston North End being crowned as the champions for the second successive...
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    Flood, sometimes referred to locally as Great Flood of 1889, occurred on Friday, May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, located...
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    with Texas. The second was the use of nickel-steel armor. Introduced in 1889, nickel steel was the first modern steel alloy armor and, with a figure of...
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    The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the first land run into the Unassigned Lands of the former western portion of the federal Indian Territory, which had...
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  • 1889 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships College championship College football national championship...
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    The Mauser Model 1889 is a bolt-action rifle of Belgian origin. It became known as the 1889 Belgian Mauser, 1890 Turkish Mauser, and 1891 Argentine Mauser...
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    in the Background 1889, Cypresses 1889, Cornfield with Cypresses (1889), Country road in Provence by Night (1890). In September 1889, he produced two further...
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  • The following are the baseball events of the year 1889 throughout the world. National League: New York Giants American Association: Brooklyn Bridegrooms...
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  • The year 1889 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Francis Galton publishes Natural Inheritance, a book which summarizes...
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  • is the list of Japanese municipalities by population, as of December 31, 1889. The list includes all the cities, as well as other municipalities with more...
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    1660 onwards each of Yorkshire's three ridings had its own lieutenant. In 1889 elected county councils were established under the Local Government Act 1888...
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  • caricatures (1890–1894) The following is from a list of caricatures published 1885–1889 by the British magazine Vanity Fair (1868–1914). Next List of Vanity Fair...
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    Events from the year 1889 in Canada. Monarch – Victoria Governor General – Frederick Stanley Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald Chief Justice – William...
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  • 6 October 1889 during the Boulanger affair. They resulted in a victory for the Republicans, and a thorough defeat for the Boulangists. 1889 French legislative...
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  • Events from the year 1889 in Ireland. June – Edward Carson becomes the youngest QC in Ireland (aged 35). 12 June – the Armagh rail disaster occurs near...
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    chess game between Emanuel Lasker and Johann Bauer played in Amsterdam in 1889 is one of the most famous on account of Lasker's sacrifice of both bishops...
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  • Pioneers of 1889, or simply 1889, is an outdoor bronze sculpture by artist Leonard McMurry and landscape architect Thomas Roberts, installed in Oklahoma...
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  • The year 1889 in art involved some significant events. February 2 – Sixth annual exhibition of Les XX opens in Brussels, including the first important...
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    Fußball-Club Viktoria 1889 Berlin Lichterfelde-Tempelhof e.V., commonly known as FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin or Viktoria Berlin, is a German association football...
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    games against other colleges played as early as 1882, but it was not until 1889 that the University of Iowa first officially recognized a varsity football...
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    Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (category 1889 deaths)
    Prince of Austria (Rudolf Franz Karl Josef; 21 August 1858 – 30 January 1889) was the only son and third child of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and...
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    Line. Constructed by Harland and Wolff, Majestic was launched on 29 June 1889 and was delivered to White Star in March 1890. White Star had sought to fund...
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    Sir Alexander Walker (1837 – 1889) was a Scottish industrialist who was the son of John ‘Johnnie’ Walker of the whisky brand. He inherited the company...
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    1880s (redirect from 1880–1889)
    Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1880, and ended on December 31, 1889. The period was characterized in general by economic growth and prosperity...
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