1891 births

Events

January–March

* January 1
** Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany.
** A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence.
**Germany takes formal possession of its new African territories.
* January 2 – A. L. Drummond of New York is appointed Chief of the Treasury Secret Service.
* January 4 – The Earl of Zetland issues a declaration regarding the famine in the western counties of Ireland.
* January 5
**The Australian shearers' strike, that leads indirectly to the foundation of the Australian Labor Party, begins.
**A fight between the United States and Indians breaks out near Pine Ridge agency.
**Henry B. Brown, of Michigan, is sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
**A fight between railway strikers and police breaks out at Motherwell, Scotland.
* January 6 – Encounters continue, between strikers and the authorities at Glasgow.
* January 7
** General Miles' forces surround the natives in the Pine Ridge Reservation.
** Secretary Tracy relieves Commander Reiter of his ship, on account of the Barrundia Affair.
** The International Monetary Conference meets in Washington DC.
* January 8 – Lieutenant Casey of the United States Army is killed by native Americans, at Pine Ridge.
* January 9 – The great shoe strike in Rochester, New York is called off.
* January 10 – in France, the Irish Nationalist leaders hold a conference at Boulogne. The French government promptly takes loan.
* January 11
**3,000 natives approach Pine Ridge with a view to surrender.
** Mahoning Valley, Ohio, sixteen blast furnaces shut down, putting 10,000 men out of work.
**Railroads and coke companies forced to lower prices.
* January 12
**Canada brings suit before the United States Supreme Court in re-seizures of vessels in the Bering Sea.
**St. Mary's Cathedral dedicated in San Francisco.
* January 13 – In California, Leland Stanford (Rep.) re-elected Senator.
* January 14 – Conference of Native American chiefs with General Miles at Pine Ridge Reservation, the natives agree to surrender.
* January 15 – Scottish railway strikers attempt to wreck a train near Greenock, Scotland.
* January 16 – The Chilean Civil War of 1891 breaks out.
* January 17 – George Bancroft dies at Washington DC at age 91, all government buildings flying flags lower to half mast until after the funeral.
* January 19
**General Miles officially announces the end of the native outbreak and congratulates his troops.
**A British squadron ordered to Chile.
* January 20 – Jim Hogg becomes the first native Texan to be governor of that state.
* January 27–May 2 – The Jamaica International Exhibition is held.
* January 29 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii.
* January 31 – The Portuguese republican revolution breaks out, in the northern city of Porto.
* February – The Tobacco Protest begins in Iran.
* 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''.
* February 15 – Allmänna Idrottsklubben (AIK) sports club is founded in Stockholm, Sweden.
* February 21 – Springhill, Nova Scotia suffers a serious mining disaster.
* March 3 – The International Copyright Act of 1891 is passed, by the 51st United States Congress.
* 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.
* March 12 – Djurgårdens IF (DIF) sports club is founded in Stockholm.
* March 14 – In New Orleans