Historical Events in 1889
51 curated events dated to this year, and 282 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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1889
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Britannica Completes the Ninth Scholar Edition
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German Old Age and Disability Insurance Law Passed
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Mistranslation in the Treaty of Wuchale
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Appointment as Literary Critic for The Academy
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Appointment as Professor at Yale
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Death of Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Family Relocation to Canada
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Friendship with W.B. Yeats
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Ghost Dance Prophecy and Wounded Knee
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Henri Bergson Publishes 'Time and Free Will'
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Invention of Cordite by Abel and Dewar
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Lilienthal publishes Birdflight as the Basis of Aviation
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Publication of 'Asolando'
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Publication of 'Days and Nights'
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Publication of 'In Vinculis'
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Publication of 'Poems of Power'
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Publication of Il piacere
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Relocation to Chicago
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The Death of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Posthumous Poetic Legacy
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The Lifelong Devotion of W.B. Yeats to Maud Gonne
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Thomas Edison Opposes Alternating Current
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Attends Harvard University
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Death of Amelia Lee
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Enrollment at Magdalen College, Oxford
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Final Years and Return to England
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First AC Hydroelectric Plant at Willamette Falls
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Guerlain Launches Jicky with Vanillin
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Hawaiian 'Kumulipo' Creation Chant First Published
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Influenza Pandemic of 1889–1890 (Russian Flu)
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Johnstown Flood
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Marriage to Henry Coleridge
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Publication of 'The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems'
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The Century Dictionary Published
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The Invention of the Modern Pizza Margherita in Naples
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The Panama Canal Construction Defeated by Mosquito-Borne Yellow Fever
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Valéry publishes his first poem
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Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Established
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Armstrong Whitworth Maxim Gun Adoption
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British South Africa Company Charter
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Construction of the Eiffel Tower
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Death of Monro's father Edward William Monro
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Establishment of the London County Council
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Final Years and Continued Writing
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First Publication of 'Sylvie and Bruno'
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Recognition in Local Literary Circles
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Birth of First Child
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Final Years in London
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Invention of Cordite Smokeless Powder
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Marriage to Caroline Mary Ross
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Marriage to Margaret Edina Duckworth
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Publication of 'Katy's Summer in Italy'
Poets alive in 1889
282 poets
Poets in 1889
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