Explore 1816 historical events from 1900–1909.
Bruce Price was an American architect and an innovator in the Shingle Style. The stark geometry and compact massing of his cottages in Tuxedo Park, New York, influenced Modernist a…
Bruce Price, American architect, designed the Château Frontenac and American Surety Building (born 1845)
Nikolai Vasilievich Bugaev was a Russian mathematician, the father of Andrei Bely.
Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician and philosopher (born 1837)
Alexander I reigned as the king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Draga Mašin, were assassinated by a group of Royal Serbian Army officers, led by Captain Dragutin …
Alexander I of Serbia (born 1876)
Draginja "Draga" Obrenović, née Lunjevica (Луњевица) and formerly Mašin (Машин), was Queen of Serbia as the wife of King Aleksandar Obrenović. She was formerly a lady-in-waiting to…
Draga Mašin, Serbian wife of Alexander I of Serbia (born 1864)
Arthur Shrewsbury was an English cricketer and rugby football administrator. He was widely rated as competing with W. G. Grace for the accolade of best batsman of the 1880s; Grace …
Arthur Shrewsbury, English cricketer (born 1856)
Herbert Alfred Henry Joseph Thomas Vaughan was an English prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Westminster from 1892 until his death in 1903, and was elevated…
Herbert Vaughan, English cardinal (born 1832)
Edward James Delahanty, nicknamed "Big Ed", was an American professional baseball player, who spent his Major League Baseball (MLB) playing career with the Philadelphia Quakers, Cl…
Ed Delahanty, American baseball player (born 1867)
Alphonse Francois Renard, Belgian geologist and petrographer, was born at Ronse, in East Flanders, on 27 September 1842. He was educated for the church of Rome, and from 1866 to 1…
Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist and photographer (born 1842)
Pope Leo XIII was head of the Catholic Church from 1878 until his death in 1903. He had the fourth-longest reign and third-longest verified reign of any pope, behind those of St. P…
Leo XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1810)
Cassius Marcellus Clay was an American planter, politician, military officer and abolitionist who served as the United States ambassador to Russia from 1863 to 1869.
Cassius Marcellus Clay, American publisher, lawyer, and politician, United States Ambassador to Russia (born 1810)
Martha Jane Canary, better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman, sharpshooter and storyteller. In addition to many exploits, she was known for being an acquaintan…
Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman and scout (born 1853)
Eduard Magnus Jakobson was an Estonian wood engraver and Baptist missionary. He illustrated many books and designed the masthead logo for Sakala, a newspaper founded by his older b…
Eduard Magnus Jakobson, Estonian missionary and engraver (born 1847)
Edmond Isidore Étienne Nocard, was a French veterinarian and microbiologist, born in Provins.
Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian and microbiologist (born 1850)
Eugenio María de Hostos y de Bonilla, known as El Gran Ciudadano de las Américas, was a Puerto Rican educator, philosopher, intellectual, lawyer, sociologist, novelist, and Puerto …
Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican-American sociologist, philosopher, and lawyer (born 1839)
Hans Fredrik Gude was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters. He has been called a main…
Hans Gude, Norwegian-German painter and academic (born 1825)
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, known as Lord Salisbury, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the Uni…
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United…
Kusumoto Ine was a Japanese physician. She was the first female doctor of Western medicine in Japan.
Kusumoto Ine, first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine (born 1827)
Frederick Law Olmsted was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is considered to be the father of landscape architecture in the U…
Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist and architect, co-designed Central Park (born 1822)
Duncan Gillies, was an Australian colonial politician who served as the 14th Premier of Victoria.
Duncan Gillies, Scottish-Australian businessman and politician, 14th Premier of Victoria (born 1834)
The Kishinev pogrom or Kishinev massacre was an anti-Jewish riot that took place in Kishinev, then the capital of the Bessarabia Governorate in the Russian Empire, on 19–21 April […
Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Kishinev, the capital of Bessarabia Governorate, causing the death of nearly 50 Jews and
The Frank Slide was a massive rockslide that buried part of the mining town of Frank in the District of Alberta of the North-West Territories, Canada, at 4:10 a.m. on April 29, 190…
A rockslide buried part of the Canadian mining town of Frank under 110 million tonnes of rock, killing around 70 people
Maurice-François Garin was an Italian-French road bicycle racer best known for winning the inaugural Tour de France in 1903, and for being stripped of his title in the second Tour …
French cyclist Maurice Garin won the first edition of the Tour de France.
The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization was a secret revolutionary society founded in the Ottoman territories in Europe that operated in the late 19th and early 20th cen…
Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaimed a republic, which existed for ten days before Ottoman forces destroyed the town.
The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization was a secret revolutionary society founded in the Ottoman territories in Europe that operated in the late 19th and early 20th cen…
Macedonian rebels in Kruševo established a republic, which existed for ten days before Ottoman forces destroyed the…