Explore 1176 historical events from 1900–1909.
Maria Teresa Goretti was an Italian virgin martyr of the Catholic Church, and one of the youngest saints to be canonized. She was born to a farming family. Her father died when she…
Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint (born 1890)
Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski was a Polish Roman Catholic cardinal-priest. He was born in Górki in Russian-controlled Congress Poland to Count Josef Ledóchowski and Maria Zakrzewska…
Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski, Polish cardinal (born 1822)
The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek hand-powered orrery. It is the oldest known example of an analogue computer. It could be used to predict astronomical positions and ec…
The Antikythera mechanism, the oldest known surviving geared mechanism, was discovered among artifacts retrieved from a
The Second Boer War, also known as the Boer War, Transvaal War, Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the Boer republics ov…
The Second Boer War came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging in Pretoria, South Africa
St Mark's Campanile is the bell tower of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy. The campanile is a reconstruction completed in 1912, the previous tower having collapsed in 1902. At 9…
The medieval St Mark's Campanile in Venice collapsed, also demolishing the Loggetta del Sansovino.
Agustín Lizárraga Ruiz was a Peruvian explorer and farmer who visited the Inca site of Machu Picchu on 14 July 1902, nine years before American explorer Hiram Bingham brought it to…
An expedition led by Peruvian explorer and farmer Agustín Lizárraga discovered the Incan city of Machu Picchu…
The U.S. state of New York was the first to require its residents to register their motor vehicles, in 1901. Registrants provided their own license plates for display, featuring th…
New York becomes the first U
The Great Fire of 1901 was a conflagration in Jacksonville, Florida, on May 3, 1901. It was one of the worst disasters in Florida history and the third largest urban fire in the U.…
The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida
Gorkhapatra is the oldest Nepali language state-owned national daily newspaper of Nepal. It was started as a weekly newspaper in May 1901 and became a daily newspaper in 1961. It i…
The first issue of Gorkhapatra, the oldest still running state-owned Nepali newspaper, is published
French government enacts its anti-clerical legislation Law of Association prohibiting the formation of new monastic orders without governmental approval.
French government enacts its anti-clerical legislation Law of Association prohibiting the formation of new monastic…
The Parliament of Australia is the federal legislature of Australia. It consists of three elements: the monarch of Australia, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. The Parl…
Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne
William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States from 1909 to 1913 and the tenth chief justice of the United States from 1921 to 1930. He is the only person to have …
William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
Oklahoma, is a landlocked state in the South Central, Southern, and Southwestern regions of the United States. It borders Texas to the southwest, Kansas to the north, Missouri to t…
Land lottery begins in Oklahoma.
Al Lewis was an American lyricist, songwriter and music publisher. He is thought of mostly as a Tin Pan Alley era lyricist; however, he did write music on occasion as well. Profess…
Al Lewis, American songwriter (died 1967)
László Németh was a Hungarian writer, dramatist and essayist.
László Németh, Hungarian dentist, author, and playwright (died 1975)
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 boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands
The College Board, styled as CollegeBoard, is an American not-for-profit organization. It was formed in December 1899 as the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) to expand acc…
The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT
William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer known primarily for his short stories, though he also wrote poetry and non-fiction. His works i…
O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
Edmund Brisco "Henry" Ford was a British ecological geneticist. He was a leader among those British biologists who investigated the role of natural selection in nature. As a school…
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Hyla Bristow Stallard, published as H. B. Stallard and familiarly known as Henry Stallard, was an English middle-distance runner and ophthalmologist.
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Emperor Shōwa was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1926 until his death in 1989. He remains the longest-reigning emperor i…
Hirohito, Japanese emperor (died 1989)
Simon Smith Kuznets was a Russian-born American economist and statistician who received the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirically founded interpretati…
Simon Kuznets, Belarusian-American economist, statistician, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1985)
Sterling Allen Brown was an American professor, folklorist, poet, and literary critic. He chiefly studied black culture of the southern United States and was a professor at Howard …
Sterling Allen Brown, American poet, academic, and critic (died 1989)
Antal Szerb was a noted Hungarian scholar and writer. He is generally considered to be one of the most important Hungarian writers of the 20th century.
Antal Szerb, Hungarian scholar and author (died 1945)