Explore 2322 historical events from 1900–1909.
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. A researcher of natural history, she was an autho…
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator, co-founded Radcliffe College (born 1822)
Konstantinos Volanakis was a Greek painter. He is known as one of the greatest Greek seascape painters. Another notable seascape painter was Ioannis Altamouras.
Konstantinos Volanakis, Greek painter and academic (born 1837)
August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein was a Baltic German linguist, folklorist, ethnographer, and theologian.
August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German linguist and theologian (born 1826)
Hendrik "Henrik" Sillem was a Dutch jurist, mountaineer and sport shooter.
Henrik Sillem, Dutch target shooter and jurist (born 1866)
Sir William Henry Perkin was an English chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first commercial synthetic organic dye, mauveine, made from anili…
William Henry Perkin, English chemist and academic (born 1838)
Hector-Henri Malot was a French writer born in La Bouille, Seine-Maritime. He studied law in Rouen and Paris, but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic …
Hector Malot, French author and critic (born 1830)
Joseph Joachim was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher who made an international career, based in Hanover and Berlin. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he…
Joseph Joachim, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1831)
Richard Mansfield was a German-born English actor-manager best known for his performances in Shakespeare plays, Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and the play Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; h…
Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (born 1857)
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repert…
Edvard Grieg, Norwegian pianist and composer (born 1843)
René François Armand "Sully" Prudhomme was a French poet and essayist. He was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1901.
Sully Prudhomme, French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1839)
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu was a Romanian writer and philologist who pioneered many branches of Romanian philology and history.
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Romanian philologist, journalist, and playwright (born 1838)
Ernest Roland Wilberforce was an Anglican clergyman and bishop. From 1882 to 1896 he was the first Anglican Bishop of Newcastle upon the diocese's creation, and from 1896 to 1907 h…
Ernest Wilberforce, English bishop (born 1840)
Tavadi (Prince) Ilia Chavchavadze was a Georgian journalist, publisher, writer and poet who spearheaded the revival of Georgian nationalism during the second half of the 19th centu…
Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian poet, journalist, and lawyer (born 1837)
William Wales was an English-American optical instrument inventor specializing in the manufacture of objectives for use in microscopes. Wales's objective inventions were used frequ…
William Wales, English-American inventor (born c. 1838)
Ignaz Brüll was a pianist and composer from Austria-Hungary. Born in Moravia, he lived and worked in Vienna.
Ignaz Brüll, Czech-Austrian pianist and composer (born 1846)
Mary Edmonia Lewis, also known as "Wildfire", was an American sculptor. Born in Upstate New York of mixed African-American and Native American heritage, she moved to Rome, Italy in…
Edmonia Lewis, American sculptor (born 1844)
Jacob Nash Victor, son of Henry Clay Victor and Gertrude Nash, was a civil engineer who worked as General Manager of the California Southern Railroad, a subsidiary of Atchison, Top…
Jacob Nash Victor, American engineer (born 1835)
Jules Chevalier, MSC was a French Catholic priest and founder of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, the Missionary Sisters of the …
Jules Chevalier, French priest, founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (born 1824)
Minas Geraes, spelled Minas Gerais in some sources, was a dreadnought battleship of the Brazilian Navy. Named in honor of the state of Minas Gerais, the ship was laid down in April…
Minas Geraes (pictured), the first of three Brazilian dreadnought battleships, was laid down, sparking a vastly expensiv
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1…
Organized by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, among others, Bolshevik revolutionaries robbed a bank stagecoach in Tifli
The Folies Bergère is a cabaret music hall in Paris, France. Located at 32 Rue Richer in the 9th Arrondissement, the Folies Bergère was built as an opera house by the architect Plu…
Inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris, American impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (pictured) staged the first of his…
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 (pictured), one of the oldest continuously operated public farmers' markets in the U.S. and a…
Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and …
Gertrude Stein meets her life partner and muse, Alice B. Toklas in Paris.
The Colony of New Zealand was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1841 to 1907. British authority was vested in a governor. The colony had three successive capitals: Okiato in 1841…
The British colony of New Zealand officially became a dominion to reflect its political independence since the 1850s.