Explore 1816 historical events from 1900–1909.
Harold Edgar Clurman was an American theatre director and drama critic. In 2003, he was named one of the most influential figures in U.S. theater by PBS. He was one of the three fo…
Harold Clurman, American director and producer (died 1980)
Alfred Horatio Belo was the founder of The Dallas Morning News newspaper in Dallas, Texas, along with business partner George Bannerman Dealey. The company A. H. Belo Corporation, …
Alfred Horatio Belo, American publisher, founded The Dallas Morning News (born 1839)
John Jones Ross was a Canadian politician. Ross served as the seventh premier of Quebec and later as a member of the Senate of Canada.
John Jones Ross, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Premier of Quebec (born 1831)
Mariano Ignacio Prado Ochoa was a Peruvian army general who served twice as President of Peru.
Mariano Ignacio Prado, Peruvian general, twice President of Peru (born 1825)
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was a South African political leader. An Afrikaner, he helped establish the South African Republic, was the first president of the ZAR, and also compiled…
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, South African general and politician, 1st President of the South African Republic (born 1819
Joseph Adolphe Théophile Olivier was a French rugby union player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the French rugby union team, which won the gold medal.
Joseph Olivier, French rugby player (born 1874)
Louis-Zéphirin Moreau was a Canadian Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe from 1875 until his death in 1901. He was also the cofounder of the Sisters of St. Jos…
Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop (born 1824)
George Leslie Mackay was a Canadian Presbyterian missionary. He was the first Presbyterian missionary to northern Taiwan, serving with the Canadian Presbyterian Mission. Mackay is …
George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary and author (born 1844)
Gaetano Bresci was an Italian anarchist who assassinated King Umberto I of Italy. His experience of working as a young weaver led him to realize he was exploited in the workplace, …
Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist, assassin of Umberto I of Italy (born 1869)
Victor Joseph Auguste D'Hondt was a Belgian lawyer and jurist of civil law at Ghent University. He devised a procedure, the D'Hondt method, which he first described in 1878, for al…
Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician, lawyer, and jurist (born 1841)
Adolf Bötticher or Adolf Boetticher was a German art historian and conservator.
Adolf Bötticher, German historian and author (born 1842)
Robert Williams Buchanan was a Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist. Several of his works were adapted into films.
Robert Williams Buchanan, Scottish poet, author, and playwright (born 1841)
Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Schmidt was a German linguist. He developed the Wellentheorie of language development.
Johannes Schmidt, German linguist and academic (born 1843)
Chlodwig Carl Viktor, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Prince of Ratibor and Corvey, usually referred to as the Prince of Hohenlohe, was a German statesman, who served as the i…
Chlodwig Carl Viktor, German prince and chancellor (born 1819)
Johanna Spyri was a Swiss author of novels, notably children's stories. She wrote the popular book Heidi. Born in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zürich, as a child she spent…
Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (born 1827)
William Cosmo Monkhouse was a British poet and critic.
William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (born 1840)
Victoria, Princess Royal was German Empress and Queen of Prussia as the wife of Frederick III, German Emperor. She was the eldest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and …
Victoria, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom and German Empress (born 1840)
Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld was a Finland-Swedish aristocrat, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the noble Nordenskiöld family of scientists and held …
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (born 1832)
Achille Edmond Audran was a French composer best known for several internationally successful comic operas and operettas.
Edmond Audran, French organist and composer (born 1842)
Evelyn Abbott was an English writer and classical scholar. He is best known for his book History of Greece, which includes a sceptical viewpoint of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. He is…
Evelyn Abbott, English classical scholar (born 1843)
Ignacij Klemenčič was a Carniolan (Slovenian) physicist.
Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist and academic (born 1853)
Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa, known as Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator. His immersion in the …
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator (born 1864)
William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Re…
William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (born 1843)
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar was the fifth Qajar shah of Iran, reigning from 1896 until his death in 1907. He is often credited with the creation of the Persian Constitution of 1906,…
Mozaffar ad-Din (pictured), Shah of Persia, granted exclusive rights to prospect for oil in the country to William Knox