Explore 1816 historical events from 1900–1909.
Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, 1st Baronet was an English chemist who was recognised as the leading British authority on explosives. He is best known for the invention of cordite as …
Frederick Abel, English chemist and engineer (born 1827)
Jacques Joseph Tissot, better known as James Tissot, was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist. He was born to a drapery merchant and a milliner and decided to pursue a c…
James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (born 1836)
Masaoka Shiki , pen-name of Masaoka Noboru, was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan. Shiki is regarded as a major figure in the development of modern…
Masaoka Shiki, Japanese poet, author, and critic (born 1867)
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 coronation of Edward VII and his wife, Alexandra, as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on 9 August 1902. O…
In a ceremony at Westminster Abbey, Edward VII and Alexandra were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the…
Science fiction film refers to the application of science fiction themes into a film genre. As such, it uses speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully a…
The first science fiction film, titled A Trip to the Moon and based on From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, was…
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…
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.
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
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.
Peter O'Connor was an Irish track and field athlete who set a long-standing world record for the long jump and won two Olympic medals in the 1906 Intercalated Games.
Peter O'Connor sets the first World Athletics recognised long jump world record of 24 ft 11.75 in (7.6137 m), a record…
The U.S. Steel recognition strike of 1901 was an attempt by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers to reverse its declining fortunes and organize large numbers …
The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. Aircraft include fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodi…
The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
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.
Kiowa or Ǥáuigú people are a Native American tribe and an Indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States. They migrated southward from western Montana into the Rocky Mo…
Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
The Thomasites were a group of 600 American teachers who traveled from the United States to the newly occupied territory of the Philippines on the US Army Transport Thomas. The gro…
Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.