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1890s* H. G. Wells creates modern science fiction with his book The War of the Worlds. * Hale Johnson is a major leader of the temperance movement. * Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction, under Mary Hunt, achieves de facto control over all alcohol education in the USA. * "The" Fin de Siècle (primarily in Paris and Brussels). * Increasing importance of Art Nouveau style. * Dreyfus Affair ( France) Literature and arts* Thomas Hardy publishes Tess of the d'Urbervilles. * Anton Chekhov publishes Uncle Vanya. * A. E. Housman publishes A Shropshire Lad. * Rudyard Kipling publishes Barrack-Room Ballads. * H. G. Wells publishes The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The War of the Worlds. OthersWorld leaders* Prime Minister John Sparrow David Thompson ( Canada) * Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier ( Canada) * Emperor Franz Josef ( Austria-Hungary) * Kaiser Wilhelm II ( German Empire) * Chancellor Leo von Caprivi ( German Empire) * King Umberto I ( Italy) * Pope Leo XIII* Czar Alexander III ( Russia) * Czar Nicholas II ( Russia) * Queen Victoria ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) * Prime Minister Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) * Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) * Prime Minister Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) * President Benjamin Harrison ( United States) * President Grover Cleveland ( United States) * President William McKinley ( United States) * Shahs of Persia ( Qajar dynasty)# Nasser-al-Din Shah, 1848-1896# Mozzafar-al-Din Shah, 1896-1907 Important people* Thomas A. Edison* Nikola TeslaEntertainers* Adelina Patti* George W. Johnson* Justin Smith* Jonathan BoothSports* Bob FitzsimmonsThe Mauve Decade, by Thomas Beer ( 1926) Gay Nineties* Quiz: Victorian Etiquette — Educational Game, In the style of the Monty Pythons
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