In 1889, Russian-born engineer Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky developed the first three-phase transformer at the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (" General Electricity Company ") in Germany.

* Active in 1883 – 1889, the Bald Knobbers ( or " Baldknobbers ") were masked men who retaliated against invading marauders and drove out outlaws in Taney County.

Reginald (" Reggie ") Edgar Walker ( 16 March 1889 – 5 November 1951 ) was a South African athlete and the 1908 Olympic champion in the 100 metres.

* Eindringen des Kapitalismus in ein Bauerndorf, Martin der Mann, 1889 (" Introduction of Capitalism into a Village of Farmers ", " Martin the Man ")

It is also known as Allacodon ( partly ); Cimolomys ( partly ); Halodon ( Marsh 1889 ); Nanomys (" small mouse ") ( Marsh 1889 ); nomyops ( Marsh 1892 ); Ptilodus ( partly ).

In March 1889, a second caveat was filed, in which the proposed motion picture device was given a name, Kinetoscope, derived from the Greek roots kineto-(" movement ") and scopos (" to view ").

On April 22, over 100, 000 settlers and cattlemen ( known as " boomers ") lined up at the border, and with the army's guns and bugles giving the signal, began a mad dash into the newly opened land to stake their claims ( Land Run of 1889 ).

Janssen also founded two congregations of Religious Sisters: The Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters ( members known as " Sister Servants of the Holy Spirit ") on December 8, 1889, and the Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters (" Sister Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration ") on September 8, 1896.

* Moisei Leibovits Ruhymovych ( 1889 – 1939 ), Bundist in 1904-1913, Minister (" People's Commissar ") for military affairs of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic ( 1917 – 1918 ) and Minister (" People's Commissar ") for Defense Industry of the USSR ( 1936 – 1937 )

The Empire of Brazil an anomaly in Latin America as a large, successful and stable monarchy until 1889, when the República Velha (" Old Republic ") was founded.

* Kant's Begründung der Aesthetik, Berlin, 1889 (" Kant's Foundations of Aesthetics ")

He received a patent for his invention of the paper matchbook ( which he called " flexibles ") in 1889, but the idea did not catch on right away.

Oskar Albinus (" Albin ") Stenroos ( February 25, 1889, Vehmaa – April 30, 1971 ) was a Finnish athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Other species since discovered include C. grandis (" grand chambered lizard ") in 1877, C. lentus in 1889, and C. lewisi ( originally described as a the new genus Cathetosaurus ) in 1988.

In 1883, he was called to the University of Greifswald, Institute for History, where he held the positions of an " außerordentlicher Professor " (" Privatdozent ") since 1883, and " ordentlicher Professor " since 1889.

It was named Trevelin ( from Trefelin, the Welsh for " mill town ") after the first mill, known as " Los Andes ", was established there by John Evans in 1889.

The upper level of the station ( called " Broadway ") opened in 1889 and closed on October 4, 1969, still exists.

At the time of the new Stoats Nests ' opening, it was the second station operating in the area, Coulsdon South ( then named " Coulsdon ") having been opened by the SER on 1 October 1889.

The new system took its foundations from the HBM (-" inexpensive housing ") system which had been created in 1889 and financed mainly by charitable sources rather than the state.

This " repetition " in original scale ( Van Gogh's term was " répetition ") was executed in September 1889.

The Ahmadiyya movement was founded in India in 1889 by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who claimed to be the promised Messiah (" Second Coming of Christ ") the Mahdi awaited by the Muslims and a ' subordinate ' prophet within Islam.

He was worshipped as Acraephius ( ; Ἀκραιφιος, Akraiphios, literally " Acraephian ") or Acraephiaeus ( ; Ἀκραιφιαίος, Akraiphiaios, literally " Acraephian ") in the Boeotian town of Acraephia ( Ἀκραιφία ), reputedly founded by his son Acraepheus ; and as Smintheus ( ; Σμινθεύς, Smintheus, " Sminthian "— that is, " of the town of Sminthos or Sminthe ") near the Troad town of Hamaxitus.

* 1738 – Real Academia de la Historia (" Royal Academy of History ") is founded in Madrid.

Zāhir ud-Dīn Mohammad Bābur, who founded the Mughal dynasty of South Asia kept a journal Bāburnāma ( Chagatai /; literally: " Book of Babur " or " Letters of Babur ") which was written between 1493 and 1529.

The central bank of Sweden (" Sveriges Riksbank " or simply " Riksbanken ") was founded in Stockholm from the remains of the failed bank Stockholms Banco in 1664 and answered to the parliament (" Riksdag of the Estates ") thus making it the oldest central bank still operating today.

In AD 9, the usurper Wang Mang claimed that the Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the Han dynasty and the rise of his own, and he founded the short-lived Xin (" New ") Dynasty.

When Augustus founded the Roman Empire, the Mediterranean sea began to be called Mare Nostrum ( Latin: " Our Sea ") by the Romans.

Liubice (" lovely ") was founded on the banks of the river Trave about four kilometres north of the present-day city centre of Lübeck.

The Mars Society Switzerland (" MSS ") was founded in February 2010.

* Talossa, a political simulation founded in 1979, with more than 130 members (" citizens ") and an invented culture and language, recently split into three separate groups.

Marxism – Leninism descends from the Bolshevik (" Majority ") faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ( RSDLP ) that was founded in the RSDLP's Second Congress in 1903.

The following year he founded the clandestine newspaper Sardegna libera (" Free Sardinia ") which attracted him the hostility of the Fascist regime.

A few months after the Sex Pistols ' breakup, John Lydon ( no longer " Rotten ") cofounded Public Image Ltd. Lora Logic, formerly of X-Ray Spex, founded Essential Logic.

* Adam Smith: Often said to have founded modern economics ; explained emergence of economic benefits from the self-interested behavior (" the invisible hand ") of artisans and traders.

The first municipality ( previously called " town ") of Puerto Rico, San Juan, was founded in 1521.

After Henry's death in 936, his widow Saint Mathilda founded a religious community for women (" Frauenstift ") on the castle hill, where daughters of the higher nobility were educated.

" Svenska Aeroplan AB ( aktiebolag )" ( Swedish for " Swedish Aeroplane Company Limited ") ( SAAB ) was founded in 1937 in Trollhättan, with the merger of SAAB and Linköping based ASJA the headquarters moved to Linköping.

The Voortrekkers ( Afrikaans and Dutch for pioneers, literally " those who pull ahead ", " fore-trekkers ") were emigrants during the 1830s and 1840s who left the Cape Colony ( British at the time, but founded by the Dutch ) moving into the interior of what is now South Africa.

") is founded in Heidelberg by Erzmutter ( Archmother ) Johanna Indulgentia Tara Maria Benedicta O. S. P. I.

* March 15 – The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity ( original name " The Aztecs ") is founded on the campus of Arkansas State Teacher's College in Conway, Arkansas ( now the University of Central Arkansas ).

Such disdain did not prevent the Société des Peintres Orientalistes (" Society of Orientalist Painters ") being founded in 1893, with Jean-Léon Gérôme as honorary president ; the word was less often used as a term for artists in 19th century England.

Magnavox ( Latin for " great voice ") is a US electronics company founded by Edwin Pridham and Peter L. Jensen, who invented the moving-coil loudspeaker in 1915 at their lab in Napa, California.

For eight years Nuevo León was abandoned and uninhabited, until a third expedition of thirteen families led by Diego de Montemayor founded Ciudad Metropolitana de Nuestra Señora de Monterrey (" Metropolitan City of Our Lady of Monterrey ") on September 20, 1596, next to a water spring called Ojos de Agua de Santa Lucia, where the Museum of Mexican History and Santa Lucía Riverwalk are now located.