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January 1 A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence. Germany takes formal possession of its new African territories. January 4 – The Earl of Zetland issues a declaration regarding the famine in the western counties of Ireland. January 5 The Australian shearers' strike, that leads indirectly to the foundation of the Australian Labor Party, begins. A fight between the United States and Indians breaks out near Pine Ridge agency. A fight between railway strikers and police breaks out at Motherwell, Scotland. January 7 General Miles' forces surround the natives in the Pine Ridge Reservation. Secretary Tracy relieves Commander Reiter of his ship, on account of the Barrundia Affair. The International Monetary Conference meets in Washington DC. January 9 – The great shoe strike in Rochester, New York is called off. January 10 – in France, the Irish Nationalist leaders hold a conference at Boulogne. The French government promptly takes loan. January 11 3,000 natives approach Pine Ridge with a view to surrender. Mahoning Valley, Ohio, sixteen blast furnaces shut down, putting 10,000 men out of work. January 12 Canada brings suit before the United States Supreme Court in re-seizures of vessels in the Bering Sea. St. Mary's Cathedral dedicated in San Francisco. January 14 – Conference of Native American chiefs with General Miles at Pine Ridge Reservation, the natives agree to surrender. January 15 – Scottish railway strikers attempt to wreck a train near Greenock, Scotland. January 16 – The Chilean Civil War of 1891 breaks out. January 19 General Miles officially announces the end of the native outbreak and congratulates his troops. A British squadron ordered to Chile. January 20 – Jim Hogg 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.

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