![]() ![]() electricity, gasoline, automobiles, artificial textiles, organic chemistry). It is characterized by an international economic recovery following the Long Depression (1873-1896) and by the beginning of strong economic growth during the Belle Époque (1896-1914), driven by the innovations of the Second Industrial Revolution (i.e. The 1890s (pronounced "eighteen-nineties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1890, and ended on December 31, 1899. pays $20 billion to annex the Philippines from Spain in the Treaty of Paris activism spearheaded by Kate Sheppard leads to New Zealand being the first country to give women the right to vote Vincent van Gogh, the Dutch master of modern art, dies, likely by suicide Menelik II leads Ethiopia to a sweeping victory over Italy at the Battle of Adwa, First Italo-Ethiopian War. Ferguson establishes the American doctrine of racial segregation, leading to the Jim Crow laws nearly three hundred ethnic Lakota people are massacred by the United States Army at Wounded Knee the U.S. ![]() ![]() From top to bottom, left to right: Alfred Dreyfus in captivity at the height of the Dreyfus Affair Boer commandos during the Second Boer War Plessy v. ![]()
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