Explore 1816 historical events from 1900–1909.
Kicking Bear was an Oglala Lakota who became a band chief of the Miniconjou Lakota Sioux. He fought in several battles with his brother, Flying Hawk, and first cousin, Crazy Horse,…
Kicking Bear, Native American tribal leader (born 1846)
Camille Maximilien Frédéric, Count de Renesse-Breidbach was a Belgian nobleman, entrepreneur and author.
Camille of Renesse-Breidbach (born 1836)
Nikiforos Lytras was a Greek painter. He was born in Tinos and trained in Athens at the School of Arts. In 1860, he won a scholarship to Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Munich. After…
Nikiforos Lytras, Greek painter and educator (born 1832)
Nikolay Ivanovich Bobrikov was a Russian general and politician. He served as Governor-General of Finland and the Finnish Military District from 29 August [O.S. 17 August] 1898 unt…
Nikolay Bobrikov, Russian soldier and politician, Governor-General of Finland (born 1839)
Édouard Beaupré, better known by his nickname "The Willow Bunch Giant" was a Canadian circus and freak show giant, professional wrestler, strongman, and star of Barnum and Bailey's…
Édouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (born 1881)
Abai Qūnanbaiūly was a Kazakh poet, composer and Hanafi Maturidi theologian philosopher. He was also a cultural reformer toward European and Russian cultures on the basis of enligh…
Abai Qunanbaiuly, Kazakh poet and philosopher (born 1845)
Theodor Herzl was a Hungarian Jewish journalist and lawyer who was the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl formed the Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish immigration to …
Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist, playwright, and father of modern political Zionism (born 1860)
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger was a South African politician. He was one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th-century South Africa, and State President of the …
Paul Kruger, South African politician, 5th President of the South African Republic (born 1824)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer. Widely considered one of the greatest writers of all time, his career as a playwright produced four classic…
Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (born 1860)
Wilson Barrett was an English manager, actor, and playwright. With his company, Barrett is credited with attracting the largest crowds of English theatregoers ever because of his s…
Wilson Barrett, English actor and playwright (born 1846)
John Douglas was an Anglo-Australian politician and Premier of Queensland.
John Douglas, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Queensland (born 1828)
Sir George Richard Dibbs KCMG was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales on three occasions. In 1857, he married Anne Maria Robey. He travelled abroad, and est…
George Dibbs, Australian politician, 10th Premier of New South Wales (born 1834)
Eduard Hanslick was an Austrian music critic, aesthetician and historian. Among the leading critics of his time, he was the chief music critic of the Neue Freie Presse from 1864 un…
Eduard Hanslick, Austrian author and critic (born 1825)
Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau was a French Republican politician who served as the Prime Minister of France from 1899 to 1902. He served as Minister of the Interior at …
Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French lawyer and politician, 68th Prime Minister of France (born 1846)
Colonel Prentiss Ingraham was a colonel in the Confederate Army, a mercenary throughout the 1860s, and a fiction writer.
Prentiss Ingraham, American soldier and author (born 1843)
Kate Chopin was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminist authors…
Kate Chopin, American novelist and poet (born 1850)
Ignace Henri Jean Theodore Fantin-Latour was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.
Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter and lithographer (born 1836)
William Charles Renshaw was a British tennis player active during the late 19th century, who was ranked world No. 1. He won twelve Wimbledon titles: seven in singles and five in do…
William Renshaw, English tennis player (born 1861)
Murad V was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 30 May to 31 August 1876. The son of Abdulmejid I, he supported the conversion of the government to a constitutional monarchy. His…
Murad V, Ottoman sultan (born 1840)
Russification, Russianisation or Russianization, is a form of cultural assimilation in which non-Russians adopt Russian culture and Russian language either voluntarily or as a resu…
Realizing that the Russification of Lithuania was not working, the Russian Empire lifted the 40-year-old ban on publicat
John Christian Watson was an Australian politician who served as the third prime minister of Australia from April to August 1904. He held office as the inaugural federal leader of …
Chris Watson became the first prime minister of Australia from the Australian Labor Party
In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who a…
Pitching for the Boston Americans, Cy Young threw the first perfect game in modern professional baseball
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 Japanese battleships Hatsuse and Yashima sank after striking several mines off Port Arthur, Chin
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist movement and is regarded among the most influential and important w…
Irish author James Joyce (pictured) began a relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the a