Explore 1816 historical events from 1900–1909.
The 1906 Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France, commonly known as the 1906 French Grand Prix, was a motor race held on 26 and 27 June 1906, on closed public roads outside the c…
The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans
The Persian Constitutional Revolution, also known as the Constitutional Revolution of Iran, took place between 1905 and 1911 during the Qajar era. The revolution led to the establi…
Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a…
The Newport Transporter Bridge is a transporter bridge that crosses the River Usk in Newport, South East Wales. The bridge is the lowest crossing on the river. Built in 1906, it is…
The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon was a tropical cyclone that hit Hong Kong on 18 September 1906. The typhoon caused property damage exceeding a million pounds sterling, affected internat…
The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 (FMIA) is a U.S. law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and me…
The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf …
In Finland, a new electoral law is ratified, guaranteeing the country the first and equal right to vote in the world.…
The 25th Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States Army activated in 1866 and deactivated in 1957. One of the "Buffalo Soldier" units, the racially segregated…
The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and…
Seismic magnitude scales are used to describe the overall strength or "size" of an earthquake. These are distinguished from seismic intensity scales that categorize the intensity o…
The 8.2 Mw Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people.
Alberto Santos-Dumont was a Brazilian aeronaut, sportsman, inventor, and one of the few people to have contributed significantly to the early development of both lighter-than-air a…
Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France successfully for the first time.
Sidney R. Garfield was an American physician and a pioneer of health maintenance organizations. He co-founded the Kaiser Permanente healthcare system with businessman Henry J. Kais…
Sidney Garfield, American physician, co-founded Kaiser Permanente (died 1984)
Eric William Fenby OBE was an English composer, conductor, pianist, organist and teacher who is best known for being Frederick Delius's amanuensis from 1928 to 1934. He helped Deli…
Eric Fenby, English composer and educator (died 1997)
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten was a Swedish prince who for most of his life was second in the line of succession to the Swedish throne with the title of Hereditary Prin…
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (died 1947)
William Brooke Joyce, nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born Nazi propaganda broadcaster during the Second World War. After moving from New York to Ireland and subsequently t…
William Joyce, American-born Irish-British Nazi propaganda broadcaster (died 1946)
The 14-bis (French: Quatorze-bis;, also known as Oiseau de proie, was a pioneer era, canard-style biplane designed and built by Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont. In…
The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
Mary Elizabeth "Mimi" Smith, informally known as Aunt Mimi, was a maternal aunt and the parental guardian of the English musician John Lennon. She was born in Toxteth, Liverpool, a…
Mimi Smith, English nurse (died 1991)
Joel Brand was a member of the Budapest Aid and Rescue Committee, an underground Zionist group in Budapest, Hungary, that smuggled Jews out of German-occupied Europe to the relativ…
Joel Brand, member of the Budapest Aid and Rescue Committee (died 1964)
William Joseph Brennan Jr. was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1956 to 1990. He was the eighth-longe…
William J
Yiorgos Theotokas, formally Georgios Theotokas, was a Greek novelist.
Yiorgos Theotokas, Greek author and playwright (died 1966)
Kurt Friedrich Gödel was a logician, mathematician, and philosopher. Considered along with Aristotle and Gottlob Frege to be one of the most significant logicians in history, Gödel…
Kurt Gödel, Czech-American mathematician, philosopher, and academic (died 1978)
Paul Sacher was a Swiss conductor, patron and billionaire businessman. At the time of his death, Sacher was the majority shareholder of the Hoffmann-La Roche pharmaceutical company…
Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor and philanthropist (died 1999)
Horst Schumann was an SS-Sturmbannführer (major) and medical doctor who conducted sterilization and castration experiments at Auschwitz and was particularly interested in the mass …
Horst Schumann, German SS officer and physician (died 1983)
Mary Astor was an American actress. Although her career spanned several decades, she may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941)…
Mary Astor, American actress (died 1987)
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Halsted was an American writer who worked as a newspaper editor and in public relations. Halsted also wrote two children's books published in the 1930s. She …
Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American journalist and author (died 1975)
André Weil was a French mathematician, known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth c…
André Weil, French mathematician and academic (died 1998)