January 16

Chilean Civil War breakes out. between forces supporting Congress and forces supporting the sitting President, José Manuel Balmaceda. The war saw the confronting of the Chilean Army against the Chilean Navy, that had sided the president and the congress respectively. This conflict ended with the defeat of the Chilean Army and the presidential forces and President Balmaceda committing suicide as a consequence.

January 29

Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii

1891 Morgan Dollar The Morgan Dollar is named after its designer, George T. Morgan, who designed the obverse and reverse of the coin. Morgan used Philadelphia school teacher Anna Willess Williams to pose for Lady Liberty.

January 31

The Portuguese  republican revolution  breaks out in the northern city of Porto

March 14

In New Orleans, a lynch mob  storms the Old Parish Prison and lynches 11 Italians arrested but found innocent of the murder of Police Chief David Hennessy

1891 $1 bill

March 17  

The British steamship SS Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar, killing 574.

April 7  

P. T. Barnum, American showman  dies

Helmuth von Moltke Prussian field marshal in the Franco-Prussian War dies

May 1  

Troops fire on a workers' May Day demonstration in support of the 8-hour workday in Fourmies, France, killing 9 and wounding 30.

May 5

The Music Hall in New York (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with maestro Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.

May 11

Otsu Incident: Czarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich of Russia survives an assassination attempt while visiting Japan.Before opening ceremonies in Vladivostok  marking the start of construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, Tsarevich Nicholas made an official visit to Japan. icholas was returning to Kyoto after a day trip to Lake Biwa in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture. He was attacked by Tsuda Sanzo (1855–1891), one of his escort policemen, who swung at the Tsarevich's face with a saber. The quick action of his cousin, Prince George of Greece and Denmark, who parried the second blow with his cane, saved his life. Tsuda then attempted to flee, but two rickshaw  drivers in Nicholas's entourage chased him down and pulled him to the ground. Nicholas was left with a 9 centimeter long scar on the right side of his forehead, but his wound was not life-threatening.this may have influenced his decisions in the process up to and during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905.

1891 basebal team

May 20

Thomas Alva Edison's prototype kinetoscope  is first displayed at Edison's Laboratory, for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs.

June 21

First long-distance transmission of alternating current by the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado by Lucien and Paul Nunn.

October 27

An 8.0 earthquake strikes the village of Utsuzumi in rural Gifu, Japan, killing over 7,000 across the region and creating a 3-meter-tall surface fault that is still visible.

September 28

Herman Melville, American novelist dies

1891 Strand Magazine

December 5

Pedro II, Brazilian deposed emperor

Commercial production of automobiles began in 1891 and was at an early stage. The first company formed exclusively to build automobiles was Panhard et Levassor in France, which also introduced the first four-cylinder engine. Otto Lilienthal Anklam, Province of Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia creates his Derwitzer Glider, a glider aircraft. It became "the first successful manned aircraft in the world, covering flight distances of up to about 80 feet near Derwitz/Krielow in Brandenburg. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published the first Sherlock Holmes in Strand Magazine in 1891.Thomas Hardy published Tess of the d'Urbervilles in 1891. the American president in 1891 was Benjamin Harrison . The president of Mexico was  Porfirio Díaz .wikipedia