First to 10k posts

January 22 - Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC.

January 30 - Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera commit a double suicide (or a murder suicide) in Mayerling hunting lodge.

February 5 - First issue of Glasgow University Magazine is published.

February 11 - Meiji Constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890.

February 22 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.

March - German naval force shells a village in Samoa, destroying some American property. Three American warships enter the Samoan harbor and prepare to fire on the three German warships found there. Before guns are fired, a hurricane blows up and sinks all the ships, American and German. A compulsory armistice is called because of the lack of warships.

March 4 - Grover Cleveland, 22nd President of the United States (1885 - 1889) is succeeded by Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893).

March 9 - Yohannes IV is killed in the Battle of Metemma; Sudanese forces, who had been almost defeated, rally and destroy the Ethiopian army.

March 11 - North Carolina Legislature issues a charter for the creation of Elon College.

March 23 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded the Ahmadiyya Muslim community.