Explore 705 historical events from 1900–1909.
Louis Alter was an American pianist, songwriter and composer. At 13, he began playing piano in theaters showing silent films. He studied at the New England Conservatory of Music un…
Louis Alter, American musician (died 1980)
Paavo Ilmari Yrjölä, also known as the Bear of Hämeenkyrö, was a Finnish track and field athlete who won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He also compet…
Paavo Yrjölä, Finnish decathlete (died 1980)
Gaetano Alberto "Guy" Lombardo was a Canadian and American bandleader, violinist, and hydroplane racer whose unique sweet jazz style remained popular with audiences for nearly five…
Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and bandleader (died 1977)
George Gaylord Simpson was an American paleontologist. Simpson was perhaps the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century, and a major participant in the modern synth…
George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist and author (died 1984)
Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, better known by his pseudonym Sousândrade, was a Brazilian poet, adept of the "Condorist" movement. His poetry, exceedingly innovative for the time it was…
Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet and educator (born 1833)
Cyprien Tanguay was a French Canadian priest and historian.
Cyprien Tanguay, Canadian priest and historian (born 1819)
Francis Brett Hart, known as Bret Harte, was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the…
Bret Harte, American short story writer and poet (born 1836)
Agostino Roscelli, also known as Augustine Roscelli, and Augustin Roscelli, was an Italian priest who inspired social change in Genoa, Italy for children and disadvantaged women. H…
Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest and saint (born 1818)
Almon Brown Strowger was an American inventor for whom the Strowger switch, an electromechanical telephone exchange technology, is named.
Almon Brown Strowger, American soldier and inventor (born 1839)
Vital-Justin Grandin was a Roman Catholic priest and bishop. He has been labelled as a key architect of the Canadian Indian residential school system by contemporary news sources, …
Vital-Justin Grandin, French-Canadian bishop and missionary (born 1829)
Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló was a Spanish writer and priest, regarded as one of the greatest poets of Catalan literature and a prominent literary figure of the Renaixença, a cultura…
Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan priest and poet (born 1845)
Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh. Both novels h…
Samuel Butler, English novelist, satirist, and critic (born 1835)
The Second Boer War, also known as the Boer War, Transvaal War, Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the Boer republics ov…
The Second Boer War came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging in Pretoria, South Africa
Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Ernst Schröder was a German mathematician mainly known for his work on algebraic logic. He is a major figure in the history of mathematical logic, by virtue …
Ernst Schröder, German mathematician and academic (born 1841)
The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek hand-powered orrery. It is the oldest known example of an analogue computer. It could be used to predict astronomical positions and ec…
The Antikythera mechanism, the oldest known surviving geared mechanism, was discovered among artifacts retrieved from a
The U.S. state of New York was the first to require its residents to register their motor vehicles, in 1901. Registrants provided their own license plates for display, featuring th…
New York becomes the first U
The Great Fire of 1901 was a conflagration in Jacksonville, Florida, on May 3, 1901. It was one of the worst disasters in Florida history and the third largest urban fire in the U.…
The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida
Gorkhapatra is the oldest Nepali language state-owned national daily newspaper of Nepal. It was started as a weekly newspaper in May 1901 and became a daily newspaper in 1961. It i…
The first issue of Gorkhapatra, the oldest still running state-owned Nepali newspaper, is published
Al Lewis was an American lyricist, songwriter and music publisher. He is thought of mostly as a Tin Pan Alley era lyricist; however, he did write music on occasion as well. Profess…
Al Lewis, American songwriter (died 1967)
László Németh was a Hungarian writer, dramatist and essayist.
László Németh, Hungarian dentist, author, and playwright (died 1975)
Hyla Bristow Stallard, published as H. B. Stallard and familiarly known as Henry Stallard, was an English middle-distance runner and ophthalmologist.
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Emperor Shōwa was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1926 until his death in 1989. He remains the longest-reigning emperor i…
Hirohito, Japanese emperor (died 1989)
Simon Smith Kuznets was a Russian-born American economist and statistician who received the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirically founded interpretati…
Simon Kuznets, Belarusian-American economist, statistician, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1985)
The Parliament of Australia is the federal legislature of Australia. It consists of three elements: the monarch of Australia, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. The Parl…
Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne