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January 20 – The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
January 28 – Construction of the foundations of the Eiffel Tower starts in Paris, France.
March 13 – Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs.  

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January 15 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
March 15 – A German naval force shells a village in Samoa, destroying some American property; three American warships enter the Samoan harbor and prepare to fire on the three German warships found there. Before guns are fired, the 1889 Apia cyclone blows in and sinks all the ships, American and German. A compulsory armistice is called because of the lack of warships.
March 31 – The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated (opens May 6). Contemporary critics regard it as aesthetically displeasing.
May 6 – The Eiffel Tower opens in Paris.
June 8 – The Wall Street Journal is established.
June – Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night.
September 23 – The Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market Hanafuda playing cards.
November 23 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
The Indian Religious Code is created which forbids Indians, aka Native Americans to practice their religions.  

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March 3 – The International Copyright Act of 1891 is passed by the Fifty-first United States Congress.
March 9–12 – A powerful storm off England's south coast sinks 14 ships.
May 5 – The Music Hall in New York (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with maestro Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
August 27 – France and Russia conclude a defensive alliance.
The Tobacco Protest occurs in Iran.  

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February 12 – The electric car belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton runs away on a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on the public highway.

March 26 – The Sabi Game Reserve in South Africa, the first officially designated game reserve, is created.

July 7 – The United States annexes the Hawaiian Islands.

August 28 – Caleb Bradham names his soft drink Pepsi-Cola.

December 10 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Spanish-American War.

As a result of the merger of several small oil companies, John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company controls 84% of the USA's oil and most American pipelines  

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World population: 1,650,000,000
Africa: 133,000,000
Asia: 947,000,000
Japan: c. 45,000,000
Europe: 408,000,000
Latin-America: 74,000,000
Northern America: 82,000,000
Oceania: 6,000,000

January 2 - The first electric bus becomes operational in New York City.

January 4 – Strikes in Belgium and Germany lead to mining riots.

January 26 – The Labor League Conference opens in Sydney, Australia, with plans to form a Federal Labor Party. This is spelled "Labor" even in Australia.

February 6 – The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.

March 27 - The arrival of a Russian naval fleet in Korea causes concern to the Imperial Japanese government.

March 31 – In France, the length of a legal workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours.

April 30 – Hawaii becomes an official U.S. territory.

Japan participates with the European powers in occupying Beijing to suppress the Boxer Rebellion.  

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