Explore 1530 historical events from 1900–1909.
Charles Cameron Kingston was an Australian politician. From 1893 to 1899 he was Premier of South Australia, leading a coalition of Radicals supported by the Labor Party.
Charles Kingston, Australian politician, 20th Premier of South Australia (born 1850)
Sir Louis-Napoléon Casault was a Quebec lawyer, judge, professor and political figure. He represented Bellechasse in the 1st Canadian Parliament from 1867 to 1870 as a Conservative…
Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1823)
Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Johnson was vice president under John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's …
Lyndon B. Johnson, American commander and politician, 36th President of the United States (died 1973)
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and Leader of the Liberal Party fro…
Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1836)
François Édouard Joachim Coppée was a French poet and novelist.
François Coppée, French poet and author (born 1842)
Thomas Mitchell Morris, otherwise known as Old Tom Morris, and The Grand Old Man of Golf, was a Scottish golfer. He was born in St Andrews, Fife, the "home of golf" and location of…
Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (born 1821)
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was an Indian religious leader and the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam. He claimed to have been divinely appointed as initially the Mujaddid of the 14…
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya movement (born 1835)
Louis-Honoré Fréchette was a Canadian poet, politician, playwright and short story writer. For his prose, he would be the first Quebecois to receive the Prix Montyon from the Acadé…
Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Canadian author, poet, and politician (born 1839)
Allen Butler Talcott was an American landscape painter. After studying art in Paris for three years at Académie Julian, he returned to the United States, becoming one of the first …
Allen Butler Talcott, American painter (born 1867)
Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Colonial Secretary from 1885 to 1886 and Governor General of Ca…
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, English captain and politician, 6th Governor General of Canada (born 1841)
Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He was the first Democrat elected president after th…
Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (born 1837)
Thomas Hill was an American artist of the 19th century. He produced many fine paintings of the Californian landscape, in particular of the Yosemite Valley, as well as the White Mou…
Thomas Hill, American painter (born 1829)
Joel Chandler Harris was an American journalist and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on …
Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (born 1845)
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five. His best-known orchestral compositions—Capriccio Espagnol, the Rus…
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and educator (born 1844)
Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie was a Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright who, together with Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Alexander Kielland, is considered one of the Four…
Jonas Lie, Norwegian author, poet, and playwright (born 1833)
Phoebe Knapp was an American composer of music for hymns and an organist. She composed the music for over five hundred hymns.
Phoebe Knapp, American organist and composer (born 1839)
Friedrich Adolf "Fritz" Traun was a German athlete and tennis player. Born into a wealthy family, he participated in the 1896 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in men's doubles.…
Friedrich Traun, German sprinter and tennis player (born 1876)
William David Coleman was an Americo-Liberian politician. A True Whig Party member, he served as the 13th president of Liberia from 1896 to 1900. Born in Fayette County, Kentucky, …
William D. Coleman, 13th President of Liberia (born 1842)
Demetrios Vikelas was a Greek businessman and writer; he was the co-founder and first president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), from 1894 to 1896.
Demetrius Vikelas, Greek businessman and author, first IOC president (born 1835)
Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz was a German geophysicist who made important contributions to seismology, in particular the formulation of the Zoeppritz equations.
Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist (born 1881)
Sir William Randal Cremer usually known by his middle name "Randal", was a British Liberal Member of Parliament, a pacifist, and a leading advocate for international arbitration. H…
Randal Cremer, English politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1828)
Vicente Acosta was a Salvadoran poet.
Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran journalist and poet (born 1867)
Sigismondo Savona was a Maltese educator and politician who played a prominent role in the Language Question which defined the politics of the Crown Colony of Malta in the late 19t…
Sigismondo Savona, Maltese educator and politician (born 1835)
Marie Adam-Doerrer was a Swiss women's rights activist and unionist.
Marie Adam-Doerrer, Swiss women's rights activist and unionist (born 1838)