Explore 2322 historical events from 1900–1909.
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn was a Greek and Irish writer, translator, and teacher whose work played a significant role in the introduction of the culture and literature of Japan to the …
Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese historian and author (born 1850)
Alfred Nehring was a German zoologist and paleontologist. He was a founding professor of zoology at the Royal agricultural university in Berlin.
Alfred Nehring, German zoologist and paleontologist (born 1845)
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was a French sculptor and painter. He is best known for designing Liberty Enlightening the World, commonly known as the Statue of Liberty, in New York Ci…
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (born 1834)
Carl Josef Bayer was a chemist from Austria-Hungary who invented and named the Bayer process of extracting alumina from bauxite, essential to this day to the economical production …
Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (born 1847)
Isabella Lucy Bishop was an English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. Alongside fellow Englishwoman Fanny Jane Butler, she founded the John Bishop Memorial Hospital i…
Isabella Bird, English historian and explorer (born 1831)
Mary Davy Tenney Gray was a 19th-century American editorial writer, clubwoman, philanthropist, and suffragist from Pennsylvania, who later became a resident of Kansas. She lived in…
Mary Tenney Gray, American editorial writer, club-woman, philanthropist, and suffragette (born 1833)
Pavlos Melas was a Greek revolutionary and artillery officer of the Hellenic Army. He participated in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and was amongst the first Greek officers to join…
Pavlos Melas, French-Greek captain (born 1870)
Haritina Evstafievna Korotkevich was a Russian soldier who served in the Imperial Russian Army during the Russo-Japanese War. Volunteering to serve disguised as a man under the pse…
Haritina Korotkevich, Russian heroine (born 1882)
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
Isabelle Wilhelmine Marie Eberhardt was a Swiss explorer and author. As a teenager, Eberhardt, educated in Switzerland by her father, published short stories under a male pseudonym…
Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and journalist (born 1877)
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
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
SS Norge was a transatlantic ocean liner that was launched in 1881 in Scotland, and lost in 1904 off Rockall with great loss of life. Her final voyage was from Copenhagen, Kristian…
In the worst maritime disaster involving a Danish merchant ship, SS Norge ran aground on Hasselwood Rock and sank in the
The first regularly operated line of the New York City Subway opened on October 27, 1904, and was operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT). The early IRT system con…
The first underground segment of the New York City Subway opened, connecting New York City Hall (station pictured)…
Club Atlético de Madrid, S.A.D., commonly referred to as Atlético Madrid or simply Atlético and colloquially as Atleti, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid that…
Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage
The 1903 Tour de France was the first cycling race set up and sponsored by the newspaper L'Auto, ancestor of the current daily, L'Équipe. It ran from 1 to 19 July in six stages ove…
Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
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 …
Maurice Garin wins the first 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 proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay…
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 […
The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine
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 landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada
Românul de la Pind was a Romanian weekly newspaper. It was founded on 26 May 1903 in Bucharest, Romania, by the Aromanian cultural activist Nicolae Constantin Batzaria, who was the…
Românul de la Pind, the longest-running newspaper by and about Aromanians until World War II, is founded