Explore 1530 historical events from 1900–1909.
Arthur William "Big Boy" Crudup was an American Delta blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known, outside blues circles, for his songs "That's All Right" (1946), "My …
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1974)
Siaka Probyn Stevens was the leader of Sierra Leone from 1967 to 1985, serving as Prime Minister from 1967 to 1971 and as President from 1971 to 1985. Stevens' leadership was often…
Siaka Stevens, Sierra Leonean police officer and politician, 1st President of Sierra Leone (died 1988)
Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, OLM was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic. Faustyna, popularly spelled Faustina in English, had apparitions of Jesus C…
Faustina Kowalska, Polish nun and saint (died 1938)
Helen Katherine Meyers Sharsmith was an American biologist and educator. She was one of the first women botanists at the University of California and is recognized for her contribu…
Helen Sharsmith, American biologist and educator (died 1982)
Athanasios Klaras, better known by the nom de guerre Aris Velouchiotis, was a Greek journalist and politician. He was a member of the Communist Party of Greece and the most promine…
Aris Velouchiotis, Greek soldier (died 1945)
Cyril Frederick Walters was a Welsh first-class cricketer who had most of his success after leaving Glamorgan to do duty as captain-secretary of Worcestershire. In this role he dev…
Cyril Walters, Welsh-English cricketer (died 1992)
Gédéon Ouimet was a French-Canadian politician.
Gédéon Ouimet, Canadian politician, 2nd Premier of Quebec (born 1823)
Fitzhugh Lee was an American Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War, the 40th Governor of Virginia, diplomat, and United States Army general in the Spanish–American …
Fitzhugh Lee, American general and politician, 40th Governor of Virginia (born 1835)
Ignacio Cervantes Kawanagh was a Cuban pianist and composer. He was influential in the creolization of Cuban music.
Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (born 1847)
Sir Robert George Wyndham Herbert,, was the first Premier of Queensland, Australia. At 28 years and 181 days of age, he was the youngest person ever to become premier of an Austral…
Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (born 1831)
Carmine Crocco, known as Donatello or sometimes Donatelli, was an Italian brigand. Initially a soldier for the Bourbons, he later fought in the service of Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Carmine Crocco, Italian soldier (born 1830)
Jacques Élisée Reclus was a French geographer, writer, and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork, La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes , over a peri…
Élisée Reclus, French geographer and author (born 1830)
Walter Kittredge, was a famous American minstrel and songwriter. Over his career he wrote over 500 songs, many of them dealing with themes of abolitionism and the American Civil Wa…
Walter Kittredge, American violinist and composer (born 1834)
Muḥammad ʿAbduh was an Egyptian Islamic scholar, judge, and Grand Mufti of Egypt. He was a central figure of the Arab Nahḍa and Islamic Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th ce…
Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian jurist and scholar (born 1849)
Kristian Henrik Rudolf Sjöberg was a Swedish gymnast, athlete, and medical student. He competed as the only Swedish participant at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Henrik Sjöberg, Swedish gymnast and medical student (born 1875)
Francis Richard Lubbock was a businessman, slaveholder, and politician from the American South who played a significant role in Texas history. A South Carolina native, he was a key…
Francis Lubbock, American colonel and politician, 9th governor of Texas (born 1815)
Harold Segerson Mahony was a Scottish-born Irish tennis player who is best known for winning the singles title at the Wimbledon Championships in 1896. His career lasted from 1888 u…
Harold Mahony, Scottish-Irish tennis player (born 1867)
John Milton Hay was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century. Beginning as a private secretary for Abraham Lincoln, he bec…
John Hay, American journalist and politician, 37th United States Secretary of State (born 1838)
Simeon Solomon was a British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelites who was noted for his depictions of Jewish life and same-sex desire. His career was cut short as a result o…
Simeon Solomon, English soldier and painter (born 1840)
Alexander Konstantin von Oettingen was a Baltic German Lutheran theologian and statistician.
Alexander von Oettingen, Estonian theologian and statistician (born 1827)
Abdülhamid II or Abdul Hamid II was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1876 to 1909, and the last sultan to exert effective control over the fracturing state. He oversaw a…
Sultan Abdul Hamid II established the Ullah millet, a separate millet for the Aromanians within the Ottoman Empire
The Russian Revolution of 1905, also known as the First Russian Revolution, was a revolution in the Russian Empire which began on 22 January 1905 and led to the establishment of a …
First Russian Revolution: The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin began a mutiny against their officers
Albert Henry George Grey, 4th Earl Grey was a British peer and politician who served as Governor General of Canada from 1904 to 1911, the ninth since Canadian Confederation. He was…
In a ceremony officiated by Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey, The Luck of Cumberland (pictured) was presented to…
The nadir of American race relations is a historical period defined by Rayford Logan as encompassing the worst time for race relations in the United States after the Civil War, whi…
Nadir of American race relations: A mob of white Americans killed eight people in Oconee County, Georgia, as part of a m