Explore 705 historical events from 1900–1909.
Louis-Zéphirin Moreau was a Canadian Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe from 1875 until his death in 1901. He was also the cofounder of the Sisters of St. Jos…
Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop (born 1824)
George Leslie Mackay was a Canadian Presbyterian missionary. He was the first Presbyterian missionary to northern Taiwan, serving with the Canadian Presbyterian Mission. Mackay is …
George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary and author (born 1844)
Adolf Bötticher or Adolf Boetticher was a German art historian and conservator.
Adolf Bötticher, German historian and author (born 1842)
Robert Williams Buchanan was a Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist. Several of his works were adapted into films.
Robert Williams Buchanan, Scottish poet, author, and playwright (born 1841)
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar was the fifth Qajar shah of Iran, reigning from 1896 until his death in 1907. He is often credited with the creation of the Persian Constitution of 1906,…
Mozaffar ad-Din (pictured), Shah of Persia, granted exclusive rights to prospect for oil in the country to William Knox
Victor Joseph Auguste D'Hondt was a Belgian lawyer and jurist of civil law at Ghent University. He devised a procedure, the D'Hondt method, which he first described in 1878, for al…
Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician, lawyer, and jurist (born 1841)
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar was the fifth Qajar shah of Iran, reigning from 1896 until his death in 1907. He is often credited with the creation of the Persian Constitution of 1906,…
Mozaffar ad-Din, Shah of Persia, granted exclusive rights to prospect for oil in the country to businessman William Knox
The Hull-Ottawa fire of 1900 was a devastating fire in 1900 that destroyed much of Hull, Quebec, and large portions of Ottawa, Ontario.
Fires destroy Canadian cities Ottawa and Hull, reducing them to ashes in 12 hours
Hawaii is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two non-contiguous U.S. states, it is t…
Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B
The Scofield Mine disaster was a mining explosion that occurred at the Winter Quarters coal mine on May 1, 1900. The mine was located at 39°42′57″N 111°11′17″W near the town of Sco…
The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in Un
The Exposition Universelle of 1900, better known in English as the 1900 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 14 April to 12 November 1900, to celebrate …
Opening of World Amateur championship at the Paris Exposition Universelle, also known as Olympic Games
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's fantasy novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A K…
The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L
A protectorate, in the context of international relations, is a state or dependent territory that foregoes an independent foreign policy in favour of alliance with a protecting pow…
The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga
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…
Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking
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…
Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State
N'Djamena is the capital and largest city of Chad. It is also a Special Status Province, divided into 10 districts or arrondissements, similar to the city of Paris.
N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil
Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales. With an area of 209,…
Great Britain annexes Tonga Island
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve sl…
American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the B
The Thousand Days' War was a civil war fought in Colombia from 17 October 1899 to 21 November 1902, at first between the Liberal Party and the government led by the National Party,…
Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colom
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…
Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria
Birsa Munda was an Indian tribal independence activist, and folk hero who belonged to the Munda tribe. He spearheaded a tribal religious millenarian movement that arose in the Beng…
Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison
The Territory of Hawaii or Hawaii Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from April 30, 1900, until August 21, 1959, when most of its t…
Hawaii becomes a United States territory
Empress Dowager Cixi was a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who periodically controlled the government of the late Qing dynasty as empress dowager and regent from 1861 until…
Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families
Pearl "Polly" Adler was an American madam and author, best known for her work A House Is Not a Home, which was adapted into a film of the same name. In 2021, Pulitzer Prize–winning…
Polly Adler, Russian-American madam and author (died 1962)