1891
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
Years: 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 - 1891 - 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896
Events
- May 20 - first public display of Thomas Alva Edison's kinetoscope (see Film history).
- June 16 - John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
- June 21 - first long-distance transmission of Alternating current by the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado by Lucien and Paul Nunn.
Births
- February 11 - J W Hearne English cricket player.
- April 13 - Nella Larsen, African-American novelist.
- April 23 - Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer
- June 9 - Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter
- November 14 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine, 1923
- November 15 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshal
- December 26 - Henry Miller, writer
Deaths
- July 4 - Hannibal Hamlin, US politician.
- October 15 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, writer.