1891

This airticle is aboot the year 1891.

Millennium:	2nt millennium
Centuries:	18t century – 19t century – 20t century
Decades:	1860s  1870s  1880s  – 1890s –  1900s  1910s  1920s
Years:	1888 1889 1890 – 1891 – 1892 1893 1894

1891 is a year o the Gregorian calendar.

Events

• 1st January : Nioro is took af bi the colonel Louis Archinard efter that Ahmadou (an Ahmadou's airmy) gangs awa' in Macina an Jenne. (In Mali an Niger).

• February: the Netherlands and the Unitit Kinrick separe their possessions in the West Dutch Indies.

• Eugène Dubois maks the first discovery o Homo erectus fossils in the Dutch colony o Java. (See Anthropology).

• 18 avril : Jules Cambon is Governor o Algeria (til 1897). He applies a mair-liberal policy, wi the thocht o a speed economic development.

• June 16 – John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.

• 31t July : Unitit Kinrick say that territories atween Zambeeze an Congo river are belongin tae thaim.

• On 28 September is Herman Melville born. He is the author o Moby-Dick.

Herman Melville, author.

See awso

• Category:1891 births
• Category:1891 daiths
• Years o the XIXt an XXt Centuries
• The next year on calendar is 1892, the precedent is 1890