PEACH

History

1889

Population: 1.50 Billion*

Business: McCormic and Company founded
Entertainment: J.M. Barrie, Bjornson, Andre Gide, Gerhart Hauptman, Jerome K Jerome, Maurice Maeterlinck, WB Yeats, Bertha von Suttner, Mark Twain (Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court), RL Stevenson, Anatole France, Hermann Sudermann, Henri Bergson, TH Huxley
Van Gogh paints "Landscape with Cypress Tree", Rodin sculpts The Thinker
Music includes Cesar Franck, Richard Strauss composes "Don Juan", Gilbert and Sullivan create
Medicine: Insulin discovered
Worldwide cholera outbreak to 1892
Influenza epidemic to 1890 kills millions worldwide
Science: GV Schiaparelli discovers rotations of Mercury and Venus
Frederick Abel invents cordite
Von Mehring and Minkowski prove insulin secreted by pancreas
Punch card system created by H Hollerith
Technology: First gasoline-driven tractor built
Deaths: Painter Jules Dupre, Poet Robert Browning, PAM de Villiers de L'Isle Adam, Playwright Ludwig Anzengruber, Leper worker Father Damien on Molokai, Poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, Outlaw Belle Starr, Austrian Crown Prince Archduke Rudolf commits suicide at his hunting lodge at Mayerling

Abyssinia: Johannes IV Emperor dies – succeeded by Menelik II
Treaty of Uxxialli – Italy gains protectorate over Ethiopia
Eritrea: Italy establishes first colony
Senegal: King tries to buy Annie Oakley to hunt lions
Somaliland: Italy takes land
South Africa: Cecil Rhodes granted British Royal Charter
Swaziland: Chief Abushiri, Swahili leader is executed

Austria: Crown Prince Archduke Rudolf commits suicide at his hunting lodge at Mayerling
End of Milan IV of Serbia
Milan Obrenovich abdicates from Serbian throne in favor of his son
France: Eiffel Tower opened in Paris World's Fair
Panama scandal – collapse of French Panama Canal Company – de Lesseps and associates tried for corruption
Annie Oakley performs at Expo - reportedly King of France tries to hire her for army
Georges Boulanger plots against third Republic and flees
First May Day celebration in Paris
Mysterious case of Englishwomen from India checking into the Paris expo with her mother and when she regurned all denied existence of the mother – and the room was redecorated – either girl was insane, or mother had plague and it was hidden and covered up to prevent problem with the expo – with extent of redecorating, probably the first
Germany: Reportedly Prince Wilhelm of Germany supposedly participates in a Wild West act in Paris
Germany establishes insurance for all working men
Great Britain: British create official cubic inch
Britain guarantees dominance of Royal Navy
London Dock strike
London County Council formed
Barnum and Bailey's Circus opens in Olympia London
Russia:

Samoa: Malietoa Laupepa king of Samoa recognized by Britain
US and Germany who serves as joint supervisors
Minor skirmish between Great Britain, Germany and US at Samoa called off due to typhoon
Vanatu: Franceville becomes independent – later governed by France and Britain as part of New Hebrides – now part of Vanatu