1891 in the United States

1891 in the United States
Decades:	1870s 1880s – 1890s – 1900s 1910s
Years:	1888 1889 1890 – 1891 – 1892 1893 1894
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Events from the year 1891 in the United States.

Incumbents

• President: Benjamin Harrison (Republican)
• Vice President: Levi P. Morton (Republican)
• Chief Justice: Melville Fuller
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Thomas Brackett Reed (R-Maine) (until March 4), Charles Frederick Crisp (D-Georgia) (starting December 8)
• Congress: 51st (until March 4), 52nd (starting March 4)

Events

• January 20 – Jim Hogg becomes the first native Texan to be governor of that state.
• January 29 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii.
• March 3 – The International Copyright Act of 1891 is passed by the Fifty-first United States Congress.
• March 14 – In New Orleans, a lynch mob storms the Old Parish Prison and lynches 11 Italians who had been found not guilty of the murder of Police Chief David Hennessy.
• April 1 – The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago.
• May 5 – The Music Hall in New York (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with maestro Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
• June 21 – First long-distance transmission of alternating current by the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado by Lucien and Paul Nunn.
• October 1 – In California, Stanford University opens its doors.

Undated

• Seattle University is established.
• Garza Revolution in Texas and Mexico from 1891 to 1893.

Ongoing

• Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)
• Gay Nineties (1890–1899)
• Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)

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External links

• Media related to 1891 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons