1890
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1890 was the 890th year of the 2nd millennium, the 90th year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1890s decade.
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Art and culture
- Naturalisme, a print by French artist Louis Legrand
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Literature
- Strand Magazine (launch)
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Fiction
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- La Bête humaine by Émile Zola
- Hunger by Knut Hamsun
- Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen first published
- News from Nowhere by William Morris
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Non-fiction
- The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
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Visual art
- Die blaue Stunde by Max Klinger
- The Bath of Psyche by Frederic Leighton
- Summer Night by Winslow Homer
- Haystacks (Monet series)
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Births
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Deaths
- October 20 - Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821)
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