published The Awakening in 1899. Joseph Conrad published Heart of Darkness in 1899. Increasing importance of Art Nouveau style. Film For the first time in history, a coronation is filmed. The coronation is of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Music Symphony No. 6 (1893) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Symphony No. 9 (1893) by Antonín Dvořák. Also sprach Zarathustra (1896) by Richard Strauss. Finlandia (1899) by Jean Sibelius. Ragtime Sports The 1896 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, was the first international Olympic Games held in modern history Fashion Other 1890 — Lipton tea was introduced. 1885-1913 Annie Oakley, Li'l Sure Shot performed throughout US and Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show People Politics Charles Albert Gobat, Secretary-general Inter-Parliamentary Union Henri Morel, Director World Intellectual Property Organization Gustave Moynier, President International Committee of the Red Cross Entertainers Adelina Patti Authors Kate Chopin (The Awakening) Stephen Crane Henry James E. E. Smith Edith Wharton Sports figures Cap Anson Bob Fitzsimmons Jim O'Rourke Other people Auguste Vaillant, French anarchist Émile Henry, French anarchist Martial Bourdin, French anarchist Sante Geronimo Caserio, anarchist and assassin of Marie François Sadi Carnot Thomas Lipton, Scottish businessman, merchant and yachtsman known for Lipton tea Crawford Goldsby, Wild West, outlaw Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American electrical engineer and inventor See also Gay Nineties References Further reading The Eighteen Nineties: A Review of Art and Ideas at the Close of the Nineteenth Century, by Holbrook Jackson (1913) Portraits of the Nineties, by E. T. Raymond (1921) The Mauve Decade, by Thomas Beer (1926) Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture, by Carl E. Schorske (1979) London in the 1890s: A Cultural History, by Karl Beckson (1992) The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1893 The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1895 The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1896 External links Prices and Wages by Decade: 1890s—Library research guide shows average wages for various occupations and prices for common expenditures in the 1890s. Site hosted by the University of Missouri. Quiz: Victorian Etiquette – Educational Game, In the style of Monty Python 1890s 1890s Booknotes interview with H. W. Brands on The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s'', February 25, 1996 1890s decade overviews