1891

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1891 is a year o the Gregorian calendar.

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  • 1st Januar : Nioro is taen aff bi the colonel Louis Archinard efter that Ahmadou (an Ahmadou's airmy) gangs awa' in Macina an Jenne. (In Mali an Niger).
  • Februar: the Netherlands and the Unitit Kinrick separe their possessions in the West Dutch Indies.
  • Eugène Dubois maks the first discovery o Homo erectus fossils in the Dutch colony o Java. (See Anthropology).
  • 18 April : Jules Cambon is Governor o Algeria (til 1897). He applees a mair-leeberal policy, wi the thocht o a speed economic development.
  • June 16 – John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
  • 31st Julie : Unitit Kinrick say that territories atweesh Zambeeze an Congo river are belongin tae thaim.
  • On 28 September is Herman Melville born. He is the author o Moby-Dick.
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Herman Melville, author.
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