In 1889 he became papal Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria at Munich and in 1892 at Vienna.

Wind tunnels were key in the development and validation of the laws of aerodynamics. In 1889, Charles Renard, a French aeronautical engineer, became the first person to reasonably predict the power needed for sustained flight.

The Volta Laboratory and the Volta Bureau were earlier located at Bell's father's house at 1527 35th Street in Washington, D. C., where its carriage house became their headquarters in 1889.

It formed its first government under parliamentarism in 1889, and continued to alternate in power with the Liberals until the 1930s, when Labour became the dominant political party.

In 1889 the Halifax Conservatory became affiliated with Dalhousie, awarding degrees through the university.

She was not as active as her sister, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, though Anderson became a member of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage in 1889.

As the debate continued, Wilhelm became increasingly interested in social problems, especially the treatment of mine workers who went on strike in 1889, and keeping with his active policy in government, routinely interrupted Bismarck in Council to make clear his social policy.

After the discovery and excavation of these monuments and associated stone slabs by Russian archaeologists in the wider area surrounding the Orkhon Valley between 1889 and 1893, it became established that the language on the inscriptions was the Old Turkic language written using the Orkhon script, which has also been referred to as " Turkic runes " or " runiform " due to a superficial similarity to the Germanic runic alphabets.

He had reduced his bowling somewhat in the last few seasons and he became an occasional bowler only from 1889.

In 1889, the original stock report, Customers ' Afternoon Letter, became The Wall Street Journal.

The custom was applied inconsistently from the 16th until the 19th centuries ; creations became more regular from 1889 onwards.

Athletics became codified and standardised via the English AAA and other general sports organisations in the late 19th century, such as the Amateur Athletic Union ( founded in the US in 1888 ) and the Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques ( founded in France in 1889 ).

In 1889 he became an Alderman on the Caernarfonshire County Council which had been created by the Local Government Act 1888.

The railroad became the Rio Grande Western Railway in 1889 as part of a finance plan to upgrade the line from narrow gauge to standard gauge, and built several branch lines in Utah to reach lucrative coal fields.

After Melville died unexpectedly in 1889, Anna took control of the company and became one of the most powerful businesswomen of the day.

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** Vertinsky, Alexander: Cabaret singer ( 1889 – 1957 )— became known as the " Russian Pierrot " after debuting around 1916 with " Pierrot's doleful ditties "— songs that chronicled tragic incidents in the life of Pierrot.

Theodore Steinway died in Braunschweig in 1889, having successfully competed against the historic Grotrian-Steinweg brand – both the Hamburg-based Steinway factory and the Braunschweig-based Grotrian-Steinweg factory became known for producing premium German pianos.

* Petequakey (‘ Comes to Us With the Sound of Wings ’, better known as Isidore Cayen dit Boudreau, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree at Muskeg Lake, born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, as son of Pierre Narcisse Cayen dit Boudreau and Adelaide Catherine Arcand (‘ Kaseweetin ’), though he was a Métis he became chief of the Willow Cree an the Métis, who were living with the Cree, brother and counselor of chief Kee-too-way-how ( a. k. a. Alexander Cayen dit Boudreau ), after Kee-too-way-how had left the reserve on the Muskeg Lake to live around Batoche, became Petequakey chief ( 1880 – 1889 ) of the remaining Cree and Métis living in the reserve, he participated on 26 March 1885 along with the Métis leader Gabriel Dumont at the battle at Duck Lake, thereafter he led his tribal group to St. Laurent to participate in the defense of Batoche, one of the largest Métis settlements and the seat of the Saskatchewan's provisional government during the rebellion )

The theorem was proved by Hermann Minkowski in 1889 and became the foundation of the branch of number theory called the geometry of numbers.

In 1889 the area became part of the County of London.

Bujumbura grew from a small village after it became a military post in German East Africa in 1889.

** North Dakota and South Dakota became states in 1889.

Writing in 1889, Alfred Russel Wallace remarks " It was formerly a very general belief, even amongst geologists, that the great features of the earth's surface, no less than the smaller ones, were subject to continual mutations, and that during the course of known geological time the continents and great oceans had again and again changed places with each other.

and can be prosecuted for fare evasion under the Regulation of Railways Act 1889, under which they are subject to a fine of up to £ 1, 000 or three months ' imprisonment.

" I at once purchased an Avery's Elements of Physics, and spent the greater part of my summer vacation of 1889 at home – trying to master the subject.

Shortly after Professor Laughton published his " Jenkins's Ear " research in the English Historical Review, a Royal Navy colleague wrote, on 26 October 1889, to inform the historian: " I have a curious book connected with the subject, published in London in 1739, entitled England's Triumph: or a complete History of the many signals victories gained by the Royal Navy & Merchant Ships of Great Britain, for the term of 40 years past over the insulting & haught Spaniards by Captain Charles Jenkins, who has too severely felt the effects of Spanish tyranny.

Warburton's life was also written by John Selby Watson in 1863, and Mark Pattison made him the subject of an essay in 1889.

Sarah Louise " Sadie " Delany ( September 19, 1889 — January 25, 1999 ) was an American educator and civil rights pioneer who was the subject, along with her sister Bessie, of the New York Times bestselling oral history, Having our Say, written by journalist Amy Hill Hearth.

In 1885 he became vicar of St Nicolas, Strasbourg, but in 1889, declining an offer of preferment which was conditional on his becoming a German subject, he was expelled.

His principal work, Les Alpes suisses ( 5 vols., 1866 – 1875 ; republished with large additions, according to his own scheme, in 6 volumes, 1887 – 1889 ), is a mine of miscellaneous information on the subject.

Because of its subject, the poem was reviewed in The British Medical Journal for Nov. 30, 1889, where its poetic diction is taken literally: ' The author speaks of the pestilence and its hellborn brood ; and again of firebolts from heaven's reeking nostrils.

Performers of classical music of note include Catherine Hayes, ( 1818 – 1861 ) Ireland's first great international prima donna and the first Irish woman to perform at La Scala in Milan ; tenor John McCormack ( 1884 – 1945 ), the most celebrated tenor of his day ; opera singer Margaret Burke-Sheridan ( 1889 – 1958 ); tenor Josef Locke ( 1917 – 1999 ) achieved global success and was the subject of the 1991 film Hear My Song ; the concert flautist Sir James Galway and pianist Barry Douglas.

On 1 July 1846, Aegidienberg received a Municipal Council, which replaced the local councillor existing from Schöffen. After 1862 Honnef and 1889 Königswinter as independent municipalities subject own administrations, the municipality of Aegidienberg remained Königswinter-Land, which was renamed in 1927 " Amt Königswinter-Land " and existed until 1969 together with the municipality of Ittenbach in the " Bürgermeisterei ".

Though Century magazine published her poem, " With a Copy of Shelley ," in 1889, she quickly became disillusioned over the limited earnings available for poets, saying: " The minor painter or sculptor was honored with large annual awards in our greatest cities, while the minor poet was a joke of the paragraphers, subject to the popular prejudice that his art thrived best on starvation in a garret.

Since 1889 a prestigious Annual Lecture on a subject of Foreign Literature has been given at the Taylorian Institution.

Kelly's baserunning innovations are also the subject of the hit 1889 song entitled " Slide, Kelly, Slide " and a 1927 comedy film of the same name.

A skirmish near Fougères was the subject of the French painter Julien Le Blant's ( 1851 – 1933 ) most famous work " Le Bataillon Carré, Affaire de Fougères 1793 " which won a Gold Medal in the Exposition Universelle in 1889.

Elvira Madigan ( 4 December 1867 – 20 July 1889 ) was a Danish tightrope walker and trick rider, whose illicit affair and dramatic death at the hands of her lover were the subject of the Swedish film of 1967.

His fine abilities for advanced scholarship were used outside the classroom in editing the Allen and Greenough Latin Series of text-books, although he occasionally contributed to Harvard Studies in Classical Philology ( founded in 1889 and endowed at his instance by his own class ) papers on Latin syntax, prosody and etymology — a subject on which he planned a long work on Roman archaeology and on Greek religion at the time of the New Comedy.

Exploiting the rebellions of several of Samori's animist subject tribes, the French continued to expand into his westernmost holdings, forcing Samori to sign several treaties ceding territory to them between 1886 and 1889.

In 1889 he was called to the University of Tübingen as full professor of pathological anatomy and general pathology, while also representing the subject of bacteriology.

Appointed a lecturer at the school of higher studies in Paris ( 1886 ), he taught Sanskrit at the Sorbonne ( 1889 – 94 ) and wrote his doctoral dissertation, Le Théâtre indien ( 1890 ; “ The Indian Theatre ”), which became a standard treatise on the subject.

The Century Dictionary defined it differently in 1889 – 91, essentially as belief that the will is not free but instead subject to external antecedent causes or natural laws of cause and effect.