1890s

From the left, in the sense of the needles of the watch: the workers of the union at a plant of Carnegie Steel Company strike later known as Homestead Strike in 1892; The Plessy case against Ferguson establishes the doctrine of racial segregation and leads to the laws of Jim Crow; the USS Maine sinks in the port of Havana in 1898 that provoked the Hispanic-American War;

The 1890s were a decade beginning on January 1, 1890, and ending on December 31, 1899; are sometimes referred to as the "Mauve decade" -because the aniline dye invented by William Henry Perkin allowed the widespread use of that color in fashion-. This decade was also part of the American Golden Age and the British Victorian Age.

It is a period of clear predominance of the Anglo-Saxon countries (United States and United Kingdom). The first obtained possessions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans after defeating the Spanish empire and the second demonstrated its superiority in diplomatic conflicts over France, Portugal and China.

Events

Political map of the world in 1898, showing the colonial powers of the time.

• In Vienna, the doctor Sigmund Freud creates psychoanalysis.
• In Arabia, the 3000-mile race is supposed to run, which is won by Frank Hopkins.
• Armand Peugeot builds a 4-wheel petrol car, after acquiring the Gottlieb-Daimler engine license.
• The agent that causes tuberculosis is discovered, the Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
• The Revolution is triggered that forces Chilean President José Manuel Balmaceda Fernández to resign.
• 1890: British Ultimatum from 1890 to Portugal.
• 1894: The first but-Japanese war begins, which will end in 1895 with Japanese victory.
• 1895: The Cuban Independence War begins, which will end the American occupation of the island in 1898.
• 1896: First film recording of a high pontiff, Pope Leo XIII
• 1896: Ethiopia defeats Italy in the Battle of Adua (First Italian-Ethiopic War)
• 1897: Turkey defeats Greece in the Greek-Turkish War (1897).
• 1898: The Fachoda Incident almost provokes a war between the United Kingdom and France. Finally the French retire.
• 1898: Explosion of the USS Maine. USA. U.S.
• 1898: USA The U.S. defeats Spain in the Hispanic-American war and gets Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines and Guaján.
• 1898: The United Kingdom increases its territory in Hong Kong at the expense of China.
• 1898: Hawaiian annexation to the US. U.S.
• 1899: After the expulsion of the Spaniards, the Philippine-American War began, which ended in 1902 with American victory.
• 1899: German-Spanish Treaty (1899) in which Spain derives from its possessions in the Pacific and the disappearance of the Spanish Empire in Asia and Oceania.
• 1899: The War of the Thousand Days in Colombia begins.
• 1899: The Second War of the Boer begins, which will end in 1902 with the English victory and with the massive use of concentration camps for them.
• 1899:Exhibition_Universal_de_Paris_(1889)

Scientific and technical advances

• Electrical
• Tesla Coil
• X-ray
• Beginning of the cinema with the Brothers Lumière in 1895.
• Radiocommunication development
• Mercury steam lamp (public lighting).
• Bujía