* 1891 James Anthony Bailey buys Barnum assets from Barnum's widow

* Northern Football League ( Scotland ) A now defunct Scottish football competition, in existence between 1891 and 1920

In 1891 a Mr John Pocklington of Wyberton mill had bought the eight-sailed mill cap with gear of the 78-year-old defunct Tuxford's mill ( built in 1813 at Skirbeck by the Tuxford millwright family as an example of their fine work ) for just £ 72 at auction in Boston without any plans ( N. B.

The club was actually founded in 1902 as Union Football Club ( not to be confused with the defunct Unions club from Fremantle ) and competed in the Perth 3rd Rate Association Competition ( however an earlier ' East Perth ' had formed in 1891 ).

Wahkon was established in 1885 as Potts Town, then its name changed to Lawrence in 1891 when the post office was established.

Cattle stealing and killing, again serious during the spring of 1891, placed the land grant company officers in a perplexing position.

* 1891 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish carpenter and toy maker, founder of the Lego Group toy company ( d. 1958 )

* Barrett Wendell, Cotton Mather, the Puritan priest, New York, Dodd, Mead and company, 1891.

Industrial activities initially centred around tobacco and textile and boomed with the rise of lighting and electronics giant Philips, which was founded as a light bulb manufacturing company in Eindhoven in 1891.

In 1891 the Portuguese shifted the administration of much of the country to a large private company, under a charter granting sovereign rights for 50 years to the Mozambique Company, which, though it had its headquarters at Beira, was controlled and financed mostly by the British.

The D ' Oyly Carte company performed Pinafore before Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family at Windsor Castle on 16 June 1977, during the queen's Silver Jubilee year, the first royal command performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera since 1891.

The company produced its first automobile in 1891.

By 1890, the Thomson-Houston company was the dominant electrical manufacturing company in the U. S. Nikola Tesla received U. S. Patent 447920, " Method of Operating Arc-Lamps " ( March 10, 1891 ), that describes a 10, 000 cycles per second alternator to suppress the disagreeable sound of power-frequency harmonics produced by arc lamps operating on frequencies within the range of human hearing.

Ignác Šustala ( 1822 – 1891 ), founder of the company in Kopřivnice, Moravia, started the production of horse-drawn vehicles in 1850.

In 1891 he branched out into railroad car manufacture, naming the company Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriksgesellschaft, and employed Hugo Fischer von Roeslerstamm as technical director in 1890.

The organization of a company to open a second shaft, this one east of town, shaft began in December 1891, but it was June 1894 before digging could begin.

Established along the now-defunct Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the town became a hub for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which built a six mile long rail yard along the Potomac from 1891 to 1912, boosting the population to over 5, 000, and making Brunswick virtually a company town.

Bare eventually entrusted the operation of Blank Book to his son-in-law, Dr. A. L. Garver, who joined the company at its founding and became general manager by 1891.

Mulford company opened their " Manufacturing Chemists " in 1891 in a Philadelphia office at Market and Eighteenth Streets.

The company was founded as George A. Hormel & Company in Austin, Minnesota, U. S., by George A. Hormel in 1891.

In 1891, the Stephens Creek Reservoir was completed by a private company.

In 1891, the courts found in favour of the canal company, but negotiations dragged on.

The factory was taken over by the Bayer company in 1891.

Another company founded to produce the newer design was formed in 1891, working with fellow student from the university Ignaz Kreidl, and the device quickly spread throughout Europe.

Albani made her debut with New York's Metropolitan Opera on 20 November 1891 as Valentine in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, a performance which took place while the company was on tour in Chicago.

The main line of development, however, runs from the dance company of Ruth St. Denis ( 1878 – 1968 ) and her husband-partner, Ted Shawn ( 1891 – 1972 ), which produced work exploring images from other countries that were considered exotic by American audiences.

In 1891, Leslie and Farren again toured Australia with the Gaiety company in Ruy Blas and Cinder Ellen up too Late ( with Sidney Jones as conductor ).

Baekeland worked for the Anthony company for two years, and in 1891 set up in business for himself as a consulting chemist.

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.

The word " electron " was coined in 1891 by the Irish physicist George Stoney whilst analyzing elementary charges for the first time.

The ALP was founded as a federal party prior to the first sitting of the Australian Parliament in 1901, but is descended from Labour parties founded in the various Australian colonies by the emerging labour movement in Australia, formally beginning in 1891.

In 1891, a statue was erected to his memory in Königsberg.

Albert Pike ( December 29, 1809 – April 2, 1891 ) was an attorney, Confederate officer, writer, and Freemason.

The phrase does not come from association with Black's Law Dictionary, which was first published in 1891.

* Constitution of 1891 – the republic was proclaimed in 1889, but a new constitution was not promulgated until 1891.

The most successful was the American Association ( 1881 – 1891 ), sometimes called the " beer and whiskey league " for its tolerance of the sale of alcoholic beverages to spectators.

In early December 1891, Canadian American Dr. James Naismith, a physical education professor and instructor at the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School ( YMCA ) ( today, Springfield College ) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA ), was trying to keep his gym class active on a rainy day.

The area was originally part of the Worcestershire parish of King's Norton, and was added to the county borough of Birmingham in Warwickshire on October 1, 1891.

Bliss was born in New York in 1870 and in 1891 began work in the library of the College of the City of New York ( now City College of the City University of New York ).

Between 1859 and 1891, Peirce was intermittently employed in various scientific capacities by the United States Coast Survey, where he enjoyed his highly influential father's protection until the latter's death in 1880.

For example, the Russian Model 1891 rifle with an 800 mm ( 31. 5 inch ) barrel was shortened to 730 mm ( 28. 75 in.

For nineteen consecutive years, from 1891 through 1909, Cy Young was in his leagues ' top ten for innings pitched ; in fourteen of the seasons, he was in the top five.

It was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a noted financier and philanthropist.

Drexel University was founded in 1891 as the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry by Philadelphia financier and philanthropist Anthony J. Drexel to provide educational opportunities in the “ practical arts and sciences ” for women and men of all backgrounds.

An attempt was made to revive the old Northwestern League in 1891, but it also collapsed in mid-season, and Detroit professional baseball took a short hiatus.

By 1891 it was reported that no fewer than 162 Nationalist Clubs were in existence.