page_title: 1890
section_title: October–December
hierarchical_section_title: 1890 / Events / October–December
caption_attribution_description: English: Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, USA Entrance gate to cemetary, location of Hotchkiss gun used during Wounded Knee Massacre and later mass grave for victims.
context_page_description: 1890 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1890th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 890th year of the 2nd millennium, the 90th year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1890, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: October 9 – The first brief flight of Clément Ader's steam-powered fixed-wing aircraft Ader Éole takes place in Satory, France. It flies uncontrolled approximately 50 m (160 ft) at a height of 20 cm (7.9 in), the first take-off of a powered airplane solely under its own power.
  October 11 – In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
  October 12 – In Uddevalla, the Uddevalla Suffrage Association is founded, with a formal founding event on November 2 a month later.
  October 13
  In Michigan, the schooner J.F. Warner is lost at Thunder Bay.
  The Delta Chi fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
  November 4 – The first deep level London Underground (Tube) Railway, the City and South London Railway, opens officially.
  November 21 – Edward King, Anglican bishop of Lincoln, is convicted of using ritualistic practices.
  November 23 – King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir, and his daughter Princess Wilhelmina becomes Queen, causing the end of the personal union of thrones with Luxembourg (which requires a male heir) so that Adolphe, Duke of Nassau becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
  November 29
  The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and its first Diet convenes.
  At West Point, New York, the United States Navy defeats the United States Army 24–0 in the first Army–Navy Game of college football.
  November – Scotland Yard, headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, moves to a building on London's Victoria Embankment, as New Scotland Yard.
  December 15 – Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed by police on Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
  December 27 – The British steamship Shanghai burns in the East China Sea off the coast of Anhui Province; 101 lives are lost.
  December 29 – Wounded Knee Massacre: At Wounded Knee, South Dakota, a Native American camp, the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment tries to disperse the non-violent "Ghost-Dance" which was promised to usher in a new era of power and freedom to Native Americans but is feared as a potential rallying tool for violent rebellion by some in the U.S. government. Shooting begins, and 153 Lakota Sioux and 25 troops are killed; about 150 flee the scene. This is the last tribe to be defeated and confined to a reservation as well as the beginning of the decline of both the American Indian Wars and the American frontier.
caption: December 29: Wounded Knee
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