The 1890s were marred by infighting between the three principal successors to Gladstone, party leader William Harcourt, former Prime Minister Lord Rosebery, and Gladstone's personal secretary, John Morley.

In the 1890s ( around 100 years later ) two British physicists, William Ramsay and Lord Rayleigh, realized that their newly discovered inert gas, argon, was responsible for Cavendish's problematic residue ; he had not made an error.

Two 20th-century Lord Chancellors, F. E. Smith ( Lord Birkenhead ) and John Simon, were undergraduates together in the 1890s, along with the sportsman C. B. Fry ; Sir Thomas Beecham was an undergraduate in 1897, though soon abandoning Oxford for his musical career.

Sydenham Public School, Kingston, Ontario which has operated as an educational facility since its construction in 1853 as the Kingston County Grammar School, was renamed in the 1890s for Lord Sydenham, governor general of British North America from 1839 to 1841.

Wodehouse frequently named his characters after places with which he was familiar, and Lord Emsworth takes his name from the Hampshire town of Emsworth, where Wodehouse spent some time in the 1890s ; he first went there in 1903, at the invitation of his friend Herbert Westbrook, and later took a lease on a house there called " Threepwood Cottage ", which name he used as Lord Emsworth's family name.

Lord Kelvin, " One Heck of a Prognosticator, president of the Royal Society in the 1890s, and disbeliever in virtually every scientific discovery ," claimed that “ Radio has no future ,” “ I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning ,” and “ X-rays will prove to be a hoax ;” Orville Wright, in 1908 claimed that “ No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ;” and Irving Thalberg, MGM movie producer, asserted in 1927 that “ Novelty is always welcome, but talking pictures are just a fad .” Thus, making forecasts of the future has a historic basis in which many of the predictions by even experts have proven inaccurate.

Many of the houses in the old area of town around the Mount and Lord Street were built in the 1890s.

Steuart went on to build Attingham Hall for the 1st Lord Berwick but Lythwood Hall fell into disrepair under the squireship of the Hulton-Harrop family in the 1890s.

Hicks Withers-Lancashire was Lord of the Manor from the 1890s until 1902.

Affetside Cross was damaged in the 1890s by persons mistakenly believing it concealed hidden treasure and was repaired by the Lord of the Manor.

Large races became popular during the 1890s " Golden Age of Cycling ", with events across Europe, and in the U. S. and Japan as well.

Germany became Europe's leading steel-producing nation in the 1890s, thanks in large part to the protection from American and British competition afforded by tariffs and cartels.

Monet became secure financially during the early 1880s and so did Pissarro by the early 1890s.

In the 1890s color lithography became greatly popular with French artists, Toulouse-Lautrec most notably of all, and by 1900 the medium in both color and monotone was an accepted part of printmaking, although France and the US have used it more than other countries.

The creek to the east of the bridge was filled in with material from the quarries at Cattedown and Oreston during the late 1890s and the ground created became a municipal park, Victoria Park, which was officially opened in 1903.

Studies of the brain became more sophisticated after the invention of the microscope and the development of a staining procedure by Camillo Golgi during the late 1890s.

The origins of what became Škoda Auto go back to the early 1890s where, like many long-established car manufacturers, a company started out manufacturing bicycles.

Most modernists disdained the villanelle, which became associated with the overwrought formal aestheticism of the 1890s ; i. e. the decadent movement in England.

The 1880s saw the rise of Parnell and the Home rule movement ; the 1890s saw the momentum of nationalism, while the Catholics became prominent around the turn of the century.

Gladstone's eldest son William ( known as " Willy " to distinguish him from his father ) became a Member of Parliament but pre-deceased his father, dying in the early 1890s.

Carte's assistant, Helen Lenoir, who became his wife in 1888, made fifteen visits to America in the 1880s and 1890s to promote Carte's interests, superintending arrangements for American productions and tours of each of the new Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

In the 1890s, under its famous manager, César Ritz, and chef Auguste Escoffier, it became a well-known luxury hotel and would generate more income and contribute more to the D ' Oyly Carte fortunes than any other enterprise, including the opera companies.

When it was first published in the late 1890s, the index stood at a level of 40. 94, but ended up hitting its all-time low of 28. 48 during the summer of 1896 during the depths of what later became known as the Panic of 1896.

Wilhelm, Duke of Urach ( 1864 – 1928 ), had the distinction of being under consideration for five thrones at different times: that of King of Wurttemberg in the 1890s, as the senior agnate by primogeniture when it became likely that King William II would die without male descendants, leaving as heir Duke Albrecht of Wurttemberg, a more distantly related, albeit dynastic, royal kinsman ; Prince of Albania in 1913 ; Prince of Monaco as the next heir by proximity of blood following the Hereditary Prince Louis during a succession crisis resolved in July 1918 ; Grand Duke of Alsace-Lorraine in 1917, and his election by the Taryba as King of Lithuania in July 1918.

The use of halftone blocks in popular journals became regular during the early 1890s.

However, the fervour of republicanism tailed off in the 1890s as the labour movement became concerned with the Federation of Australia, and which became the focus following federation in 1901.

Since the discovery of crude oil in the region during the 1890s, Casper became the regional petroleum industry center.

This practice spread until it became ubiquitous in the 1890s.

During the banking crash of the 1890s which devastated Australia, Lang became interested in politics, frequenting radical bookshops and helping newspapers and publications of the infant Labor Party, which contested its first election in New South Wales in 1891.

During the 1890s and subsequently, cemented steel armor became commonplace, initially only on the thicker armor of warships.

The use of an observer's consciousness and the sense of the action as a performance became most marked in James's fiction in and after the 1890s.

McCay had begun cartooning in the 1890s and quickly became known for his lightning-quick ability to draw.

Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh ( 5 November 1865 – 10 January 1933 ) was a Scottish artist whose design work became one of the defining features of the " Glasgow Style " during the 1890s.

In the 1890s windmills became the method of water preservation.

The tours generally had fewer Tests in the 1880s and 1890s than people have grown accustomed to in more recent years, the first five-Test series taking place only in 1894 – 95.

The 1890s games were more closely fought, Australia taking their first series win since 1882 with a 2 – 1 victory in 1891 – 92.

However, by 1913, and more explicitly by 1920, Kraepelin admitted that although there seemed to be a residual cognitive defect in most cases, the prognosis was not as uniformly dire as he had stated in the 1890s.

Square pianos were built in great numbers through the 1840s in Europe and the 1890s in America, and saw the most visible change of any type of piano: the iron-framed, over-strung squares manufactured by Steinway & Sons were more than two-and-a-half times the size of Zumpe's wood-framed instruments from a century before.

In his book The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method, written and published in the 1890s, William S. Jevons observed that there are many situations where the " direct " operation is relatively easy, but the " inverse " operation is significantly more difficult.

Early alpine skis, developed in Switzerland and Austria during the 1890s, were wider, shorter versions of the standard Huitfeldt Telemark model, meant to be more agile in steep terrain and in deeper snow.

From the 1890s, the economy had been based almost entirely on the export of frozen meat and dairy products to Britain, and in 1961, the share of New Zealand exports going to the United Kingdom was still at slightly over 51 %, with approximately 15 % more going to other European countries.

They reunited in the 1890s for two more operas, but those did not achieve popularity.

The depressions of 1873 – 77 and 1890 – 91 played a crucial role in fostering the rise of industry: timidly in the 1870s and more decisively in the 1890s, industry grew with each crisis in response to the need of a damaged economy to improve its trade balance through import-substitution.

A bloop single that drops between the infielders and outfielders has been called a Texas Leaguer since the 1890s, despite no evidence that it originated in the Texas League, or was any more common there than elsewhere.

The club won one more VFA premiership, in 1887, but after that, particularly during the 1890s, the club went from one of the strongest clubs in the Association to one of the weaker, both on-field and off-field.

In the late 1890s Eakins returned to the male figure, this time in a more urban setting.

By the 1890s, the railroad traffic and the resulting activity in Wynne made it a more vibrant town than the town of Vanndale, Ark, which had been the county seat since 1886.

Belleview was also known for its citrus, producing more than 250, 000 bushels of fruit each year until freezes in the late 1890s forced many growers out of the business.

Selling oysters to Washington and Baltimore became much more profitable in the 1890s when steamboat service was established.

By the 1890s, Knoxville was home to more than 50 wholesaling houses, making it the third largest wholesaling center by volume in the South.

The late 1890s were relatively prosperous years for " Buffalo Bill's Wild West ", and he bought more land to add to the TE Ranch.

Britain's adoption of New Imperialism in the 1890s followed by its quick emergence as the front-runner in the scramble for African territories may be seen as a quest for captive markets or fields for investment of surplus capital, or ( somewhat more cynically ) as a primarily strategic or preemptive attempt to protect existing trade links and to prevent the absorption of its overseas markets into the imperial trading blocs of rival powers.

In the 1890s, pastel and oils became his favored media, and he produced no more noirs after 1900.

It was established in the 1890s and occupies more than of land.