4 January – first edition of the Daily Graphic, the first British 'picture paper'.[1]
11 January – the British government delivers an ultimatum to Portugal forcing the retreat of Portuguese military forces from land between Portuguese colonies of Mozambique and Angola.
4 March – the Forth Bridge in Scotland opens to rail traffic. It is 8,296 feet (2,529m) in length with 2 cantilever spans of 1,710 feet (520m) making it the longest bridge in Britain and the bridge with the greatest cantilever span in the world.[4]
8–11 September – royal baccarat scandal: in a house party at Tranby Croft in Yorkshire attended by the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, an army officer is accused of cheating in an illegal gambling game, giving rise to an 1891 trial for slander.[8]
24 October – "Hampstead Tragedy": Mary Pearcey brutally murders her lover's wife and child in north London, for which she will be hanged on 23 December.[9]
↑"Read And Others V. The Lord Bishop of Lincoln: Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lambeth Palace, 21 Nov". The Times. No.33176. 22 November 1890. p.4.
↑Tusan, Michelle Elizabeth (2005). Women Making News: Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p.263. ISBN978-0-2520-3015-4.
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