Explore 1816 historical events from 1900–1909.
Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann was a German philosopher, independent scholar and writer. He was the author of the influential Philosophy of the Unconscious (1869). von Hartmann's …
Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher and author (born 1842)
Richard John Seddon was a New Zealand politician who served as the 15th premier of New Zealand from 1893 until his death in 1906. In office for thirteen years, he is to date New Ze…
Richard Seddon, English-New Zealand politician, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1845)
John Clayton Adams or J. Clayton Adams was an English landscape artist.
John Clayton Adams, English painter (born 1840)
Stanford White was an American architect and a partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, one of the most significant Beaux-Arts firms at the turn of the 20th century. …
Stanford White, American architect, designed the Washington Square Arch (born 1853)
William Snodgrass was a Canadian Presbyterian minister and the sixth Principal of Queen's College, now Queen's University.
William Snodgrass, Canadian minister and academic (born 1827)
George Marsden Waterhouse was a Premier of South Australia from 8 October 1861 until 3 July 1863 and the seventh premier of New Zealand from 11 October 1872 to 3 March 1873.
George Waterhouse, English-New Zealand politician, 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1824)
Hans Wilhelm Auer was a Swiss-Austrian architect best known for his design of the Swiss Bundeshaus (1894–1902) in Bern.
Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect and educator, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (born 1847)
Mihály Kolossa was a Slovene ploughman and writer in Hungary.
Mihály Kolossa, Hungarian author and poet (born 1846)
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian mathematician and theoretical physicist. His greatest achievements were the development of statistical mechanics and the statistical explana…
Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (born 1844)
Maria Georgina Grey, also known as Mrs William Grey, was a British educationist and writer who promoted women's education and was one of the founders of the organisation that becam…
Maria Georgina Grey, English educator, founded the Girls' Day School Trust (born 1816)
Robert Roberts Hitt was an American diplomat and Republican politician from Illinois. He served briefly as assistant secretary of state in the short-lived administration of James A…
Robert R. Hitt, American politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State (born 1834)
The 1906 Valparaíso earthquake hit Valparaíso, Chile, on August 16 at 19:55 local time. Its epicenter was offshore from the Valparaíso Region, and its magnitude was estimated at 8.…
An earthquake registering approximately 8.2 Mw struck Valparaíso, Chile, killing 3,882 people.
Vauxhall Bridge is a Grade II* listed steel and granite deck arch bridge in central London. It crosses the River Thames in a southeast–northwest direction between Vauxhall on the s…
Vauxhall Bridge in London opened, crossing the River Thames between Vauxhall and Westminster
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 1906 French Grand Prix, the first Grand Prix motor racing competition, began near Le Mans
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…
Members of the U.S. Army's all-black 25th Infantry Regiment were accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a…
RMS Mauretania was a British ocean liner built for the Cunard Line by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Wallsend on the River Tyne, England, launched in 1906. She was the world's…
The ocean liner RMS Mauretania, the largest and fastest ship in the world at the time, was launched in Tyneside,…
The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. The major land battles of the…
Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins
Portsmouth is a city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. It had a population of 21,956 at the 2020 census. A historic seaport and popular summer tourist destination…
Russo-Japanese War: Peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
A referendum on dissolving the union with Sweden was held in Norway on 13 August 1905. Dissolving the union, which had been in place since 1814, was approved by almost 100% of vote…
Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden.
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal cou…
The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–e…
Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich
Alfred Edward Stratton (1882-1905) and his brother Albert Ernest Stratton (1884-1905) were the first men to be convicted in Britain for murder based on fingerprint evidence. They w…
The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is
The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. The major land battles of the…
Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore…
The Ninth Avenue derailment, on the Ninth Avenue Elevated in Manhattan on September 11, 1905, was the worst accident on the New York City elevated railways, resulting in 13 deaths …
The Ninth Avenue derailment occurs in New York City, killing 13.