In 1890 Flinders Petrie discovered further papyrus fragments, which had been reused in constructing a 3rd century BCE Ptolemaic mummy case found in the Fayoum ; the palaeography suggested that the scroll was old before it was reused as waste, making these fragments the earliest surviving text of any Greek play ; the discovery occasioned a rash of new readings of the existing fragments.

* Excavations at Tell el-Hesi ( 1890 – 1893 ); under the direction of Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, and Frederick J. Bliss

He made one start for the Boston Beaneaters and two for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys during the 1890 season.

The Hesperidina is a type of liqueur made from orange peels, invented in Argentina around 1890.

Under the title of Reconnaissances magnetiques he published in 1890 an account of the magnetic observations made by him in the course of several journeys to the Red Sea and the Levant.

In 1890 the district of Qataghan and Badakhshan was divided from Afghan Turkestan and made into the Qataghan-Badakhshan Province.

* Arthur Conan Doyle made reference to ' Princetown Prison ' in four stories that he wrote between 1890 and 1903.

The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890.

However, the first moving picture was shot in Leeds by Louis Le Prince in 1888 and the first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890.

Schliemann made a third excavation at Troy in 1882 – 1883, an excavation of Tiryns with Wilhelm Dörpfeld in 1884, a fourth excavation at Troy, also with Dörpfeld ( who emphasized the importance of strata ), in 1888 – 1890.

In 1844, Jews constituted the largest population group in Jerusalem and by 1890 an absolute majority in the city, but as a whole the Jewish population made up far less than 10 % of the country.

Cotten made his film debut in the Welles-directed short Too Much Johnson, a comedy that was intended to complement an aborted 1938 Mercury stage production of William Gillette's 1890 play.

In 1890, Congress had passed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, but it was not until the Theodore Roosevelt administration ( 1901 – 1909 ) that serious efforts were made to break up or control the trusts.

Although no model or workable device was ever made, it is often seen as a link to the concept of punched paper for player piano rolls ( 1880s ), as well as Herman Hollerith's punch card tabulator ( used in the 1890 United States census ), a distant precursor of the modern computer.

193 ( 1890 ), that was written largely in response to the increase in newspapers and photographs made possible by printing technologies.

The Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty of 1890 made Zanzibar and Pemba a British protectorate, and the Caprivi Strip in Namibia became a German protectorate.

Tangent galvanometer made by J. H. Bunnell Co. around 1890.

In 1890 the British government made an ultimatum delivered on 11 January 1890, to Portugal, forcing the retreat of Portuguese military forces in the land between the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique and Angola ( most of present-day Zimbabwe and Zambia ).

For example, during a debate over the act in 1890, Representative William Mason said " trusts have made products cheaper, have reduced prices ; but if the price of oil, for instance, were reduced to one cent a barrel, it would not right the wrong done to people of this country by the trusts which have destroyed legitimate competition and driven honest men from legitimate business enterprise.

Since Mississippi ratified its constitution in 1890, with provisions such as poll taxes, residency requirements, and literacy tests, it made registration more complicated and stripped blacks from the polls.

From 1830 to 1890 the composition of these matches remained largely unchanged although some improvements were made.

Trousseau did not associate diabetes with iron accumulation ; the recognition that infiltration of the pancreas with iron might disrupt endocrine function resulting in diabetes was made by Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen in 1890.

Friese-Greene gave a public demonstration in 1890 but the low frame rate combined with the device's apparent unreliability made an unfavourable impression.

It is a large crown made from locally mined gold in c. 1890 and is very heavy.

The University of Lausanne ( UNIL, in French: Université de Lausanne ) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of theology, before being made a university in 1890.

From 1890 to 1892, he made a concerted effort to succeed commercially on the London stage, writing a half-dozen plays of which only one, a dramatisation of his novel The American, was produced.

* 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.

New Zealand's first Arbor Day planting was in Greytown in the Wairarapa on 3 July 1890.

* 1890 – Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.

The carcinogenity of chromate dust is known for a long time, and in 1890 the first publication described the elevated cancer risk of workers in a chromate dye company.

The Arithmometer, invented in 1820 as a four-operation mechanical calculator, was released to production in 1851 as an adding machine and became the first commercially successful unit ; forty years later, by 1890, about 2, 500 arithmometers had been sold plus a few hundreds more from two arithmometer clone makers ( Burkhardt, Germany, 1878 and Layton, UK, 1883 ) and Felt and Tarrant, the only other competitor in true commercial production, had sold 100 comptometers.

( London's first deep-level tube railway, the City & South London Railway, had earlier also been built for cable haulage but had been converted to electric traction before opening in 1890.

One of the first prominent countercult apologists was Jan Karel van Baalen ( 1890 – 1968 ), an ordained minister in the Christian Reformed Church in North America.

The LDS Church's 1981 edition also contains two " Official Declarations " at the book's conclusion, the first renouncing polygamy in 1890, and the second in 1978 announcing the opening of priesthood ordination to all worthy male members including previously restricted members of African descent.

The first large encyclopedia in Russian, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary ( 86 volumes, 1890 – 1906 ), was a direct cooperation with the German Brockhaus.

The first telephones were brought by Ras Makonnen from Italy in 1890, and connected between the Palace and the Imperial treasury ; the sound of disembodied voices frightened the local priests, who thought it was the work of demons.

The Federal Government assumed control of immigration on April 18, 1890 and Congress appropriated $ 75, 000 to construct America's first Federal immigration station on Ellis Island.

* 1889 – Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted ; the first Diet of Japan convenes in 1890.

In 1890, Cantor was instrumental in founding the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung and chaired its first meeting in Halle in 1891, where he first introduced his diagonal argument ; his reputation was strong enough, despite Kronecker's opposition to his work, to ensure he was elected as the first president of this society.

Oil in the San Joaquin Basin was first discovered at the Coalinga field in 1890.

In the book The Wild Frontier: Atrocities during the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee, amateur historian William M. Osborn sought to tally every recorded atrocity in the area that would eventually become the continental United States, from first contact ( 1511 ) to the closing of the frontier ( 1890 ), and determined that 7, 193 people died from atrocities perpetrated by whites, and 9, 156 people died from atrocities perpetrated by Native Americans.

The first appointee was Rear Admiral Karl Eduard Heusner, followed shortly by Rear Admiral Friedrich von Hollmann from 1890 to 1897.

It incorporates the oldest section of underground railway in the world, which opened in 1863 and now forms part of the Circle, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan lines ; and the first line to operate electric trains, in 1890, now part of the Northern line.

The first piece was published on December 20, 1890, five days after the killing of the Lakota Sioux holy man, Sitting Bull ( who was being held in custody at the time ).

Some important events of this revival were the writings of Phoebe Palmer during the mid-19th century, the establishment of the first of many holiness camp meetings at Vineland, New Jersey in 1867, and the founding of Asbury College ( 1890 ), and other similar institutions in the US around the turn of the 20th century.

* 1890 – Agnes Macphail, Canadian politician, first female member of the Canadian House of Commons ( d. 1954 )