Editing 1891 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
[[File:Liliuokalani.jpg|thumb|110px|right| [[January 21]]: Hawaii, Queen [[Liliuokalani of Hawaii|Lili'Uokalani]].]]
* [[January 1]] 
** A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence. 
**[[German Empire|Germany]] takes formal possession of its new African territories. 
* [[January 4]] &ndash; The [[Earl of Zetland]] issues a declaration regarding the famine in the western counties of Ireland. 
* [[January 5]]
**The [[1891 Australian shearers' strike|Australian shearers' strike]], that leads indirectly to the foundation of the [[Australian Labor Party]], begins. 
**A fight between the [[United States]] and [[Lakota people|Lakotas]] breaks out near Pine Ridge agency. 
**A fight between railway strikers and police breaks out at Motherwell, [[Scotland]]. 
* [[January 7]] 
** [[Nelson A. Miles|General Miles']] forces surround the [[Lakota people|Lakota]] in the [[Pine Ridge Reservation]]. 

** The Inter-American Monetary Commission meets in [[Washington DC]]. 
* [[January 9]] &ndash; The great shoe strike in [[Rochester, New York]] is called off. 
* [[January 10]] &ndash; in [[France]], the Irish Nationalist leaders hold a conference at [[Boulogne]]. The French government promptly takes loan. 
* [[January 11]]
**3,000 [[Lakota people|Lakotas]] approach Pine Ridge with a view to surrender. 
**[[Mahoning Valley|Mahoning Valley, Ohio]], sixteen blast furnaces shut down, putting 10,000 men out of work. 
* [[January 12]]
**[[Canada]] brings suit before the [[United States Supreme Court]] in re-seizures of vessels in the [[Bering Sea]]. 
**St. Mary's Cathedral dedicated in [[San Francisco]].
* [[January 14]] &ndash; Conference of [[Lakota people|Lakota]] chiefs with General Miles at [[Pine Ridge Reservation]], the [[Lakota people|Lakota]] agree to surrender. 
* [[January 15]] &ndash; Scottish railway strikers attempt to wreck a train near [[Greenock, Scotland]]. 
* [[January 16]] &ndash; The [[Chilean Civil War of 1891]] breaks out.<ref>{{cite book|title=Naval Institute Proceedings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yDYaAAAAIAAJ|year=1962|publisher=U.S. Naval Institute|page=60}}</ref> 
* [[January 19]]
**General Miles officially announces the end of the native outbreak and congratulates his troops. 
**A [[British Navy|British]] squadron ordered to [[Chile]]. 
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Jim Hogg]] becomes the first native [[Texas|Texan]] to be governor of that state.
* [[January 27]]&ndash;[[May 2]] &ndash; The [[Jamaica International Exhibition]] is held.<ref>{{cite book|title=Revista Interamericana: Interamericana Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WCgdAQAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Inter American University Press|page=130}}</ref>
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Liliuokalani]] is proclaimed Queen of [[Hawaii]].
* [[January 31]] &ndash; The Portuguese [[Republicanism|republican]] [[revolution]] breaks out, in the northern city of [[Porto]].
* [[February]] &ndash; The [[Tobacco Protest]] begins in [[Iran]].
* [[February 14]] &ndash; In the [[FA Cup]] quarter final in English [[Association football]], a goal is deliberately stopped by handball on the [[Association football pitch|goal line]]. An [[indirect free kick]] is awarded, since the [[Penalty kick (association football)|penalty kick]], proposed the previous year by [[William McCrum]], has not yet been implemented. This event probably changes public opinion on the penalty kick, seen previously as ''an Irishman's motion''.
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Allmänna Idrottsklubben]] (AIK) sports club is founded in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]].
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Springhill, Nova Scotia]] suffers a [[Springhill mining disasters|serious mining disaster]].
* [[March 3]] &ndash; The [[International Copyright Act of 1891]] is passed, by the [[51st United States Congress]].
* [[March 5]] &ndash; 1st [[Prime Minister of Canada]] [[Sir John A. Macdonald]] wins a 4th consecutive parliamentary victory over the [[Liberal Party]].
* [[March 9]]–[[March 12|12]] &ndash; The [[Great Blizzard of 1891]] in the south and west of England leads to extensive snow drifts and powerful storms off the south coast, with 14 ships sunk, and approximately 220 deaths attributed to the weather conditions.<ref>{{cite book|last=Woodward|first=Antony|author2=Penn, Robert|year=2007|title=The Wrong Kind of Snow|location=London|publisher=Hodder & Stoughton|isbn=978-0-340-93787-7}}</ref>
* [[March 12]] &ndash; [[Djurgårdens IF]] (DIF) sports club is founded in Stockholm.
* [[March 14]] &ndash; In [[New Orleans]], a [[Lynching|lynch mob]] storms the Old Parish Prison, and [[March 14, 1891 lynchings|lynches 11 Italians]] arrested but found innocent of the murder of Police Chief [[David Hennessy]].
* [[March 17]] &ndash; The British steamship {{SS|Utopia}}, carrying Italian migrants to New York, sinks in the inner harbor of [[Gibraltar]] after collision with the battleship [[HMS Anson (1886)|HMS ''Anson'']], killing 564.<ref>562 passengers and crew from ''Utopia'' and two rescue sailors from [[HMS Immortalité (1887)|HMS ''Immortalité'']] - {{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1891/03/20/103299622.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1891/03/20/103299622.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=The Dead of the Utopia|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 20, 1891}}</ref>
* [[March 18]] &ndash; The London&ndash;Paris telephone system officially opens.<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>