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Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués was a Spanish virtuoso violinist, composer, and conductor of the Romantic period. His best known works include Zigeunerweisen, the Span…
Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (born 1844)
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, sometimes called Bruxo do Cosme Velho, was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer, widely regarded as the greatest wr…
Machado de Assis, Brazilian author, poet, and playwright (born 1839)
Rita Cetina Gutiérrez was a 19th-century Mexican educator, writer, and feminist who promoted women's education in Mérida, Yucatán. She helped found a literary society, a periodical…
Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, Mexican poet, educator, and activist (born 1846)
Joseph Leycester Lyne, known by his religious name as Father Ignatius of Jesus, was an Anglican Benedictine monk. He commenced a movement to reintroduce monasticism into the Church…
Joseph Leycester Lyne, English monk (born 1837)
Field Marshal Marquess Nozu Michitsura was a Japanese field marshal and leading figure in the early Imperial Japanese Army.
Nozu Michitsura, Japanese field marshal (born 1840)
Vaiben Louis Solomon was the 21st Premier of South Australia and a member of the first Australian Commonwealth parliament. He was generally known by his full name – perhaps to dist…
Vaiben Louis Solomon, Australian politician, 21st Premier of South Australia (born 1853)
The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by the Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927. It is generally regarded as the first mass-affordable automobil…
The first production Ford Model T, the car credited with initiating the mass use of automobiles in the United States,…
Austria-Hungary, also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire and officially as the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, was a multi-national empire in Central Europe under a constitution…
Austria-Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, causing a crisis that permanently damaged the…
A suffragette was a member or supporter of the British Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an activist women's group agitating for votes for women, which in the early 20th c…
British suffragette Margaret Travers Symons became the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she escaped…
Unicameralism is a type of legislature consisting of one house or assembly that legislates and votes as one. Unicameralism has become an increasingly common type of legislature, ma…
The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session
The Isle of Man TT races are an annual motorcycle racing event held on the Isle of Man in May and June of mostly every year since its inaugural race in 1907. The two-week event is …
The first Isle of Man TT race is held
The National Association for Women's Suffrage was a Norwegian association for women suffrage, active from 1898 until 1913. It was founded by members of the Norwegian Association fo…
The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary ele
The London Underground is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex, and Hertfordshire in England. It is …
The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens
Florenz Edward Ziegfeld Jr. was an American Broadway impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies (1907–1931), inspired by the Folies Bergère of Pa…
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
Ellis Island is an island in New York Harbor, within the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York. Owned by the U.S. government, Ellis Island was once the busiest immigrant inspectio…
The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day
SS Columbia (1880–1907) was a cargo and passenger steamship that was owned by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and later the San Francisco and Portland Steamship Company. …
The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove,…
Scouting or the Scout Movement is a youth movement which became popularly established in the first decade of the 20th century.
The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
The Quebec Bridge is a road, rail, and pedestrian bridge across the lower Saint Lawrence River between Sainte-Foy and Lévis, in Quebec, Canada. The project failed twice during its …
The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
The Cunard Line is a British shipping company and an international cruise line based at Carnival House at Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corpor…
Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
The 1907 Imperial Conference was convened in London on 15 April 1907 and concluded on 14 May 1907. During the sessions a resolution was passed renaming this and future meetings Imp…
Four months after the 1907 Imperial Conference, New Zealand and Newfoundland are promoted from colonies to dominions…
Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, was a British Army officer, writer, founder of The Boy Scouts Association and its first Chief Scout…
Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The…
Brownsea Island Scout camp is a historic Scout campsite on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour in southern England, which was the site of Robert Baden-Powell's 1907 experimental camp …
The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis was an American jurist who served as a United States federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and as the first commissioner of baseball from 1920 until his death in …
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight…
Robert Josias "Raphael" Morgan was a Jamaican-American who is believed to be the first Black Eastern Orthodox priest in the United States. After being active in other denominations…
Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to…