Timeline: 1890-1899

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Songs

	After the Ball by Charles K. Harris (1892)
	Won't You Be My Sweetheart? by H. C. Verner (1893)
	Thy Beaming Eyes by Edward MacDowell (1894)
	Forgotten by Eugene Cowles (1894)
	King Cotton March by John Philip Sousa (1895)
	A Hot Time in the Old Town by Theodore M. Metz (1896)
	Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa (1898)
	Original Rags by Scott Joplin (1899) (Example of the first ragtime sheet music)
	Hello! Ma Baby by Joseph E. Howard (1899)
	Smoky Mokes; Cake Walk and Two-step by Abe Holzmann (1899)

Sherman Anti-Trust Act passed by Congress (1890)

Yosemite National Park created (1890)

Grover Cleveland inaugurated US President (1893)

Ellis Island immigrant receiving station established (1892)

William McKinley inaugurated US President (1897)

Kaiser Wilhem of Germany forces Prince von Bismark to resign as prime minister (1890)

Spanish-American War (1898)

Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)

American Tobacco Company founded by James B. Duke (1890)

Shell Oil Company (1892)

General Electric Company (1892)

Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (1898)

Union Carbide Company (1898)

Carnegie Steel Company (1898)

Dry cell battery ("Ever Ready" by the National Carbon Company) (1890)

Skyscraper - Wainright building by Louis Henry Sullivan in St. Louis (1890)

American Express Travelers Cheque (1891)

Kinetoscope (early motion picture projector) by Thomas Edison (1891)

Book Matches (1892)

Hershey Chocolate Bar (1894)

X-rays (1895)

Cathode-ray tube (1897)

Jell-O (1897)

Vincent van Gogh dies in Auvers, France (1890)

Sigmund Freud founds Psychoanalysis (1895)

Poems by Emily Dickinson published (1890)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by A. Conan Doyle (1892)

Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

Basketball invented by James Naismith (1891)

Stanley Cup first awarded (1893)

First modern Olympics (1896)