Explore 1816 historical events from 1900–1909.
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
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
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.
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,…
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…
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.
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…
Pike Place Market is a public market in Seattle, Washington, United States. It opened on August 17, 1907, and is one of the older continuously operated public farmers' markets in t…
Pike Place Market, one of the oldest continuously operated public farmers' markets in the U.S. and a popular tourist…
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.
Joseph-Armand Bombardier was a Canadian inventor and businessman who was the founder of Bombardier. His most famous invention was a snowmobile.
Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc
The Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 was a treaty signed between United Kingdom and the Russian Empire on 31 August 1907 in Saint Petersburg. It marked the end of the "Great Game" …
Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Anglo-Russian Convention, by which the UK recognizes Russian preeminence in…
August Eigruber was an Austrian-born Nazi Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Oberdonau and Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria. He was convicted of war crimes at Mauthausen-…
August Eigruber, Austrian-German politician (died 1947)
Miklós Rózsa was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931) and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), w…
Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer and conductor (died 1995)
Malik Miran Bakhsh, also known as Miran Bux, was a Pakistani international cricketer who played in two Test matches in 1955.
Miran Bakhsh, Pakistani cricketer (died 1991)
Metropolitan Augoustinos Kantiotes of Florina was a bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church. He was born in Paros in village of Piso Livadi.
Augoustinos Kantiotes, Greek bishop (died 2010)
Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose was an American photographer and photojournalist. Miller was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, becoming a fa…
Lee Miller, American model and photographer (died 1977)
Fritz Wotruba was an Austrian sculptor of Czecho-Hungarian descent. He was considered one of the most notable sculptors of the 20th century in Austria. In his work, he increasingly…
Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor, designed the Wotruba Church (died 1975)
Gabriel Figueroa Mateos was a Mexican cinematographer, regarded as one of the greatest cinematographers of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He worked on over 200 films, which cove…
Gabriel Figueroa, Mexican cinematographer (died 1997)
Ilias Tsirimokos was a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece for a very brief period.
Ilias Tsirimokos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1968)