Timeline December 1890

Events in December 1890 5

• 1831 – 1890 Sitting Bull (1831-1890) Died 15 December 1890, aged 59 Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led resistance to US government policy and defeated General Custer's forces at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. He later became a symbol of Native American resistance and briefly toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. He was killed by Indian Affairs police during an attempted arrest at Standing Rock, two weeks before the Wounded Knee Massacre.
• 1890 – 1976 Fritz Lang (1890-1976) Died 2 August 1976, aged 85 Fritz Lang, the Austrian-German filmmaker known for Metropolis and M, died in Los Angeles. He was a central figure of German Expressionist cinema before emigrating to Hollywood to escape Nazi Germany. His films influenced science fiction and film noir for decades afterward.
• 1890 Irish Parliamentary Party splits over Parnell Committee Room 15 debates divide Irish nationalists The Irish Parliamentary Party split after its leader, Charles Stewart Parnell, was named in a divorce scandal involving Katharine O'Shea. A majority of MPs voted to depose him as chairman during the Committee Room 15 debates. The rupture badly damaged the Irish Home Rule movement for years.
• 1890 Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades premieres Opera based on Pushkin opens at the Mariinsky Theatre Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades, based on a story by Alexander Pushkin, premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. The opera became one of Tchaikovsky's most celebrated works and a staple of the Russian operatic repertoire. It was composed in collaboration with his brother Modest, who wrote the libretto.
• 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre US troops kill Lakota Ghost Dance followers in South Dakota US Army troops of the 7th Cavalry killed several hundred Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. The massacre followed the killing of Chief Sitting Bull two weeks earlier and effectively ended the Ghost Dance movement and armed Native American resistance on the Great Plains. It is widely regarded as the last major confrontation of the American Indian Wars.