1890

Events from the year 1890 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Benjamin Harrison (R-IN)
* Vice President: Levi P. Morton (R-NY)
* Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (IL)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Thomas Brackett Reed (R-ME)
* Congress: 51st
==Events==
===January - June===
* January 1 – In Michigan, the wooden steamer Mackinaw burns in a fire on the Black River.
* January 2 – Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer in the White House.
* January 3 – George W. Johnson becomes the first African American to record phonograph cylinders, in New York.
* January 22 – The United Mine Workers is founded.
* January 25 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
* February 24 – Chicago is selected to host the Columbian Exposition.
* March 2 – The Cherry Creek Campaign occurs in Arizona Territory begins.
* March 3 – The first American football game in Ohio State University history is played in Delaware, Ohio against Ohio Wesleyan University; Ohio State wins 20–14.
* March 7 – The Cherry Creek Campaign occurs in Arizona Territory ends.
* March 8 – North Dakota State University is founded in Fargo, North Dakota.
* March 27 – A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 people and injuring 200.
* March 28 – Washington State University is founded in Pullman, Washington.
* May 1 – National American Woman Suffrage Association established.
* May 2 – Oklahoma Territory is organized.
* May 31 – The 5-story skylight Cleveland Arcade opens in Cleveland, Ohio.
* June 1 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to record census returns using punched card input, a landmark in the history of computing hardware. Hollerith's company eventually becomes IBM.
* June 12 – In Michigan, the wooden steamer Ryan is lost near Thunder Bay Island.
* June 20 – The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde published by Philadelphia-based Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.
===July - December===
* July 2 – The Sherman Antitrust Act becomes United States law.
* July 3 – Idaho admitted becomes the 43rd U.S. state.
* July 10 – Wyoming admitted becomes the 44th U.S. state.
* July 13 – In Minnesota, storms result in the Sea Wing disaster on Lake Pepin killing 98.
* August 6 – At Auburn Prison in New York, William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed in the electric chair.
* August 10 – In Boston, Irish-born poet John Boyle O'Reilly dies suddenly, aged 46. The death triggers a mass outpouring of grief and tributes across the country and the world.
* September 1 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Wilford Woodruff issues the "1890 Manifesto" officially advising against any future polygamy in the Church.
* September 25 – Sequoia National Park created.
* October 1 – Yosemite National Park created.
* October 11 – In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
* October 13
** The Delta Chi Fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
** In Michigan, the schooner J. F. Warner is lost at Thunder Bay.
* November 29 – In West Point, New York, the United States Navy defeats the United States Army 24-0 in the first Army-Navy football game.
* December 24 – The Oklahoma territorial legislature establishes three institutions of higher learning University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, and University of Central Oklahoma.
* December 29 – Wounded Knee Massacre: Near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment tries to disarm a Native American camp and shooting starts. 153 Lakota Sioux and 25 troops are killed; about 150 flee the scene.
==Sport==
* September 30 – The Brooklyn Bridegrooms clinch the National League pennant.
==Memoriam==
* January 2 – George Henry Boker, poet and playwright (aged 66; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* January 28 – Prudence Crandall, educationist (aged 86; Elk Falls, KS, USA)
* February 22 – John Jacob Astor III, businessman (aged 67; New York City, NY, USA)
* March 2 – James E. English, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1875 to 1876 (aged 77; New Haven, CT, USA)
* March 19 – John S. Hager, U.S. Senator from California from 1873 to 1875 (aged 72; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* April 1 – David Wilber, politician (aged 69; Oneota, NY, USA)
* April 13 – Samuel J. Randall, politician (aged 61; Washington, DC, USA)
* April 19 – James Pollock, politician (aged 79; Lock Haven, PA, USA)
* April 30 – Marcus Thrane, author, journalist, and the leader of the first labor movement in Norway (aged 72; Eau Claire, WI, USA)
* May 3 – James B. Beck, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1877 to 1890 (aged 68; Washington, DC, USA)
* May 15 – Edward Doane, Protestant missionary in Micronesia (aged 69; Honolulu, HI Kingdom)
* June 11
** George Edward Brett, publisher (aged 61; New York City, NY, USA)
** Hugh Buchanan, politician from Georgia (aged 66; Newnan, GA, USA)
* June 30 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer (aged 71; Newport, RI, USA)
* July 9 – Clinton B. Fisk, philanthropist and temperance activist (aged 61; New York City, NY, USA)
* July 10 – Thomas C. McCreery, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1868 to 1871 (aged 73; Owensboro, KY, USA)
* July 13 – John C. Frémont, soldier, explorer and U.S. Senator from California from 1850 to 1851 (aged 77; New York City, NY, USA)
* August 6 – William Kemmler, murderer, first person executed in the electric chair (aged 30; Auburn, NY, USA)
* August 10 – John Boyle O'Reilly, poet, novelist, journalist and transportee (aged 46; Hull, MA, USA)
* September 8 – Isaac P. Christiancy, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1875 to 1879 (aged 78; Lansing, MI, USA)
* September 30 – Frederick H. Billings, lawyer and financier (aged 67; Woodstock, VT, USA)
* October 7 – John Hill Hewitt, songwriter (aged 89; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* October 8 – James W. Deaderick, Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1876 to 1886 (aged 77; Jonesborough, TN, USA)
* October 20 – Alfred B. Mullett, architect (aged 56; Washington, DC, USA)
* November 1 – Ann Leah Underhill, one of the Fox sisters, fraudulent medium (aged 77; New York City, NY, USA)
* December 15 – Sitting Bull, Native American chief (aged 59; Grand River, SD, USA)
==External links==
* 1890 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 12