becomes the first native Texan to be governor of that state. January 27–May 2 – The Jamaica International Exhibition is held. January 29 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii. January 31 – The Portuguese republican revolution breaks out, in the northern city of Porto. February – The Tobacco Protest begins in Iran. February 14 – In the FA Cup quarter final in English Association football, a goal is deliberately stopped by handball on the goal line. An indirect free kick is awarded, since the penalty kick, proposed the previous year by William McCrum, has not yet been implemented. This event probably changes public opinion on the penalty kick, seen previously as an Irishman's motion. February 15 – Allmänna Idrottsklubben (AIK) sports club is founded in Stockholm, Sweden. February 21 – Springhill, Nova Scotia suffers a serious mining disaster. March 3 – The International Copyright Act of 1891 is passed, by the 51st United States Congress. March 9–12 – The Great Blizzard of 1891 in the south and west of England leads to extensive snow drifts and powerful storms off the south coast, with 14 ships sunk, and approximately 220 deaths attributed to the weather conditions. March 12 – Djurgårdens IF (DIF) sports club is founded in Stockholm. March 14 – In New Orleans, a lynch mob storms the Old Parish Prison, and lynches 11 Italians arrested but found innocent of the murder of Police Chief David Hennessy. March 17 – The British steamship , carrying Italian migrants to New York, sinks in the inner harbor of Gibraltar after collision with the battleship HMS Anson, killing 564. March 18 – The London–Paris telephone system officially opens. April–June April 1 The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago. The London–Paris telephone system is opened to the general public. April 5 – Census in the United Kingdom: 15.6 million people live in cities of 20,000 or more in England and Wales, and cities of 20,000 or more account for 54% of the total English population. April 12 – The first official game in the Association football league of Argentina (1891 Argentine Primera División) is held in Caballito, Buenos Aires. April 23 – Chilean Civil War of 1891: Chilean ironclad Blanco Encalada is sunk at the Battle of Caldera Bay by torpedo boats. This is the first ironclad warship lost to a self-propelled torpedo. May – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claims to be the Promised