Editing 1889 (section)

=== October–December ===
* [[October 2]] – In Washington, D.C., the first [[International Conference of American States]] begins.
* [[October 6]]
** [[Mount Kilimanjaro]]'s summit is first reached, by German geologist [[Hans Meyer (geologist)|Hans Meyer]] with Austrian mountaineer [[Ludwig Purtscheller]].
** The ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'' [[cabaret]] opens in Paris.
* [[October 12]] – [[Gustaf Åkerhielm]], previously Swedish Foreign Minister, replaces [[Gillis Bildt]] as [[Prime Minister of Sweden]].
* [[October 21]] – Field Marshal [[Helmuth von Moltke the Elder]] is recorded by [[Adelbert Theodor Wangemann]], a German associate of [[Thomas Edison]], on wax cylinders via [[phonograph]]. The two surviving wax cylinders that are produced make von Moltke, who was born in 1800, the earliest-living human whose voice was recorded, and the only human born in the [[18th century]] whose voice can be heard in the 21st.
* [[October 24]] – Sir [[Henry Parkes]], Premier of [[New South Wales]], delivers the [[Tenterfield Oration]], calling for the [[Federation of Australia]].
* [[October 29]] – The [[British South Africa Company]] receives a Royal Charter.<ref name=CBH/>
* [[November]] – The first free elections are held in [[Costa Rica]].
* [[November 2]]
** [[North Dakota]] and [[South Dakota]] are admitted as the 39th and 40th [[U.S. state]]s, respectively.
** English [[Association football]] team [[Wimbledon F.C.]] plays their first match.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Historical Don|url=http://historicaldons.com/index.php?od=2&yd=0|access-date=2015-05-15}}</ref>
* [[November 8]] – [[Montana]] is admitted as the 41st [[U.S. state]].
* [[November 11]] – [[Washington (state)|Washington]] is admitted as the 42nd [[U.S. state]].
* [[November 14]] – Pioneer American woman journalist [[Nellie Bly]] (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins an attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days, inspired by [[Jules Verne]]; she finishes the journey in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes.
* [[November 15]] – Field Marshal [[Deodoro da Fonseca]] organizes a military [[coup d'état|coup]] which deposes Emperor [[Pedro II of Brazil]] and abolishes the Brazilian [[monarchy]]. Deodoro da Fonseca proclaims Brazil a republic, and forms a provisional government.
* [[November 17]] – The [[Brazilian Imperial Family]] is forced into exile in France.
* [[November 19]] – The modern-day [[flag of Brazil]] is adopted by the Provisional Government of the Republic.
* [[November 20]]
** [[Argentina]] is the first country to recognize the abolition of the monarchy in [[Brazil]].
** [[Gustav Mahler]] premieres his [[Symphony No. 1 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 1]], in [[Budapest]].
* [[November 23]] – The first [[jukebox]] goes into operation, at the Palais Royale Saloon in [[San Francisco]].
* [[November 27]] – [[Clemson University]] is founded in [[Clemson, South Carolina]].
* [[December 14]] – In US [[college football]], [[Wofford Terriers football|Wofford]] and [[Furman Paladins football|Furman]] play the [[List of the first college football games in each U.S. state|first intercollegiate football game in the state of South Carolina]], starting the [[Furman–Wofford football rivalry]].
* [[December 23]] – The Spanish Association football team [[Recreativo de Huelva]] is formed (the oldest club in Spain by the 21st century).
* [[December 28]] – The first [[interurban]] [[tram-train]] to emerge in the United States is the Newark and Granville Street Railway in Ohio.<ref>{{cite book|page=9|title=The Electric Interurban Railways in America|first1=George W.|last1=Hilton|first2=John F.|last2=Due|publisher=Stanford University Press|year=2000}}</ref>
* [[December 30]] –  [[Abdul Hamid II]], Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, introduces the [[Kanunname of 1889]] against the slave trade.<ref>Erdem, Y. (1996). ''Slavery in the Ottoman Empire and Its Demise 1800–1909.'' Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 144</ref>