Explore 1816 historical events from 1900–1909.
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Khudiram Bose was an Indian nationalist from Bengal Presidency who opposed British rule of India. For his role in the Muzaffarpur Conspiracy Case, along with Prafulla Chaki, he was…
Khudiram Bose, Indian Bengali revolutionary (born 1889)
Radoje Domanović was a Serbian journalist, writer and teacher, most famous for his satirical short stories. His adult years were a constant fight against tuberculosis. This circums…
Radoje Domanović, Serbian satirist and journalist (born 1873)
Antoine Henri Becquerel was a French experimental physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marie and Pierre Curie for his discovery of radioactivity.
Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)
Alexander Peter Stewart was a Confederate military officer during the American Civil War and a college professor. He fought in many of the most significant battles in the Western T…
Alexander P. Stewart, American general (born 1821)
Leslie William Green was an English architect. He is best known for his design of iconic stations constructed on the London Underground railway system in central London during the …
Leslie Green, English architect (born 1875)
Henri Julien was a Canadian artist and cartoonist noted for his work for the Canadian Illustrated News and for his political cartoons in the Montreal Daily Star. His pseudonyms inc…
Henri Julien, Canadian cartoonist (born 1852)
Thomas Etholen Selfridge was an American first lieutenant in the U.S. Army and the first person to die in an airplane crash. He was also the first active-duty member of the U.S. mi…
Thomas Selfridge, American lieutenant and pilot (born 1882)
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)
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