Historical figures in 1889
The atlas holds 39 people and 59 moments here, in 1889. The most recorded lives are Rudyard Kipling, Pedro II of Brazil and Friedrich Nietzsche. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Scientists.
Notable people
Octave Mirbeau
in 1889
1 moment here
French novelist, playwright, journalist, pamphleteer, and art critic. Mirbeau’s documented life moved between Normandy, Paris, Brittany, the French…
Oscar Wilde
in 1889
1 moment here
Irish author, poet, playwright, critic, and leading figure in late nineteenth-century aestheticism.…
Pedro II of Brazil
in 1889
5 moments here
Pedro II (1825–1891) was the second and final emperor of Brazil, reigning from 1831 until the 1889 coup that abolished the monarchy.…
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
in 1889
1 moment here
Russian Romantic composer whose career ranged from civil-service work and conservatory teaching in Saint Petersburg and Moscow to international…
Queen Victoria
in 1889
1 moment here
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 1819–1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death, and…
Rosa Luxemburg
in 1889
1 moment here
Polish-born, naturalised-German Marxist theorist, socialist organiser, anti-war activist, and revolutionary.…
Rubén Darío
in 1889
1 moment here
Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, known as Rubén Darío, was a central initiator of Spanish-language Modernismo.…
Rudyard Kipling
in 1889
8 moments here
English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. Born in Bombay, Kipling spent his childhood in India and England, worked as a journalist…
Sigmund Freud
in 1889
1 moment here
Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis. This chronology traces documented locations from his Moravian birthplace and Viennese education…
Srinivasa Ramanujan
in 1889
1 moment here
Indian mathematician whose documented life moved between Tamil Nadu, southern India, England, and back to India.…
Thomas Edison
in 1889
1 moment here
American inventor and industrialist whose laboratories developed and commercialized technologies in telegraphy, recorded sound, electric lighting and…
Vincent van Gogh
in 1889
2 moments here
Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose documented movements trace a path from a Brabant childhood through work and religious study in the…
Vladimir Lenin
in 1889
2 moments here
Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik leader, political theorist, and founding head of government of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.…
Warren G. Harding
in 1889
1 moment here
Warren G. Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923.…
Willem Einthoven
in 1889
1 moment here
Dutch physician and physiologist whose work on the string galvanometer made clinical electrocardiography practical.…
Moments
- 1889 Moved to Samara Vladimir Lenin
- 1889 Atlantic arrival at Liverpool Rudyard Kipling
- 1889 Studies at Perkins Institution Helen Keller
- 1889 Birth in Allahabad Jawaharlal Nehru
- 1889 At Petrópolis during the coup Pedro II of Brazil
- 1889 Confinement after deposition Pedro II of Brazil
- 1889 Departure into exile Pedro II of Brazil
- 1889 Return to the City Palace during the coup Pedro II of Brazil
- 1889 Returns to private legal work in New York Grover Cleveland