Category:1891

1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1891st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 891st year of the 2nd millennium, the 91st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1891, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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 * January 1 – Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany. A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs, 3000 men out of work as consequence. Germany takes formal possession of its new African territories.
 * January 2 – A. L. Drummond of New York is appointed Chief of the Treasury Secret Service.
 * January 4 – The Earl of Zetland issues a declaration regarding the famine in the western counties of Ireland.
 * January 5 – The Australian shearers' strike, that leads indirectly to the foundation of the Australian Labor Party, begins. A fight between the United States and Indians breaks out near Pine Ridge agency. Henry B. Brown, of Michigan, is sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. A fight between railway strikers and police breaks out at Motherwell, Scotland.
 * January 6 – Encounters continue, between strikers and the authorities at Glasgow.
 * January 7
 * General Miles's forces surround the hostile natives in the Pine Ridge Reservation.
 * Secretary Tracy relieves Commander Reiter of his ship, on account of the Barrundia Affair.
 * The International Monetary Conference meets in Washington DC.
 * January 8 – Lieutenant Casey of the United States Army is killed by native Americans, at Pine Ridge.
 * January 9 – The great shoe strike in Rochester, New York is called off.
 * January 10 – in France, the Irish Nationalist leaders hold a conference at Boulogne. The French government promptly takes loan.
 * January 11 – 3000 natives approach Pine Ridge with a view to surrender. Mahoning Valley, Ohio, sixteen blast furnaces shut down, putting 10,000 men out of work. Railroads and coke companies forced to lower prices.
 * January 12 – Canada brings suit before the United States Supreme Court in re seizures of vessels in Berring Sea. St. Mary's Cathedral dedicated in San Francisco.