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==Popular culture== * [[Settlement movement]] based on [[Jane Addams]]' [[Hull House]] in Chicago. * [[Hale Johnson]] was a major leader of the [[American temperance movement]]. * [[Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction]], under [[Mary Hunt]], achieved ''de facto'' control over all alcohol education in the USA. * The [[fin de siècle]] (primarily in Paris and Brussels). ===Literature and arts=== [[File:Timemachinebook.JPG|140px|thumb|First edition cover of ''[[The Time Machine]]'' (1895)]] * [[Oscar Wilde]] published ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'' in 1890 (revised in 1891). * Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] published the first [[Sherlock Holmes]] story in ''[[The Strand Magazine]]'' in 1891. * [[Frank Wedekind]] releases ''[[Spring Awakening (play)|Spring Awakening]]'' in 1891. * [[Thomas Hardy]] published ''[[Tess of the d'Urbervilles]]'' in 1891. * [[Rudyard Kipling]] published ''[[Barrack-Room Ballads]]'' in 1892. * [[Ángel Della Valle]] completed ''[[The Return of the Malón]]'' in 1892. * [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]] published ''[[The Yellow Wallpaper]]'' in 1892. * [[Ernesto de la Cárcova]] completed [[Without Bread and Without Work|''Without'' ''Bread and Without Work'']] in 1893. * [[Rudyard Kipling]] published ''[[The Jungle Book]]'' in 1894. * [[Kate Chopin]] published "[[The Story of an Hour]]" in 1894 * [[George H. Thomas]] published in 1894 the first [[illustrated songs|illustrated song]] for "[[The Little Lost Child]]". * [[H. G. Wells]] published ''[[The Time Machine]]'' (1895), ''[[The Island of Doctor Moreau]]'' (1896), and created modern science fiction with his book ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'' (1898). * [[A. E. Housman]] published ''[[A Shropshire Lad]]'' in 1896. * [[William James]] published ‘’[[The Will to Believe]]’’ in 1896, laying out the basics of [[Pragmatism]]. * [[Bram Stoker]]'s ''[[Dracula]]'' is published by Archibald Constable & co. (UK) in 1897. * [[Anton Chekhov]] published ''[[Uncle Vanya]]'' in 1899. * [[Kate Chopin]] published ''[[The Awakening (Chopin novel)|The Awakening]]'' in 1899. * [[Joseph Conrad]] published ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' in 1899. * Increasing importance of [[Art Nouveau]] style.[[File:Ernesto de la Cárcova - Sin pan y sin trabajo.jpg|thumb|''[[Without Bread and Without Work]]'' by [[Ernesto de la Cárcova]]]] [[File:Ángel DELLA Valle - La vuelta del malón - Google Art Project (cropped).jpg|thumb|''[[The Return of the Malón]]'' by [[Ángel Della Valle]].]] <gallery> File:Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony. Three-quarter-length photograph, seated.jpg|[[Oscar Wilde]] File:Arthur Conan Doyle by Walter Benington, 1914.png|[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] File:Rudyard Kipling (portrait).jpg|[[Rudyard Kipling]] File:H.G. Wells by Beresford.jpg|[[H. G. Wells]] File:Twain1909.jpg|[[Mark Twain]] File:LewisCarrollSelfPhoto.jpg|[[Lewis Carroll]] </gallery> ===Film=== * For the first time in history, a [[coronation]] is filmed. The coronation is of Tsar [[Nicholas II]]. ===Music=== {{See also|Timeline of musical events#1890s}} {{Expand section|date=January 2010}} * [[Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky)|Symphony No. 6]] (1893) by [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]] * [[Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák)|Symphony No. 9]] (1893) by [[Antonín Dvořák]] * ''[[Also sprach Zarathustra]]'' (1896) by [[Richard Strauss]] * ''[[Finlandia]]'' (1899) by [[Jean Sibelius]] * [[Ragtime]] * [[Tango music|Tango]] <gallery> File:Čajkovskij ritratto seduto - Odessa (1893).gif|[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]] File:JohannesBrahms.jpg|[[Johannes Brahms]] File:Strauss3.jpg|[[Richard Strauss]] File:Paul Dukas 01.jpg|[[Paul Dukas]] File:Claude Debussy by Atelier Nadar.jpg|[[Claude Debussy]] </gallery> ===Sports=== * The [[Argentine Football Association]] is founded in 1893. * The [[Campeonato Argentino Abierto de Polo]] is organized for the first time in 1893. * The [[1896 Summer Olympics]] officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, was the first international [[Olympic Games]] held in modern history * [[Australian Football League]] as Victorian Football League started its first season in 1897. This is currently the premier division of [[Australian Football]]. ===Fashion=== {{See also|1890s in fashion}} {{Expand section|date=January 2010}} ===Other=== * 1890 – [[Lipton]] tea was introduced. * 1885–1913 – Annie Oakley, Li'l Sure Shot performed throughout US and Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
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