Explore 2322 historical events from 1900–1909.
Paul Belloni Du Chaillu was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence …
Paul Du Chaillu, French-American anthropologist and zoologist (born 1835)
Emily Howard Stowe was a Canadian physician who was the first female physician to practise in Canada, the second licensed female physician in Canada and an activist for women's rig…
Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and activist (born 1831)
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)
Georgi Nikolov Delchev, known as Gotse Delchev or Goce Delčev, was a prominent Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary (komitadji) and one of the most important leaders of what is commo…
Gotse Delchev, Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary IMRO (born 1872)
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movem…
Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (born 1848)
Apolinario Mabini y Maranán was a Filipino revolutionary leader, educator, lawyer, and statesman who served first as a legal and constitutional adviser to the Revolutionary Governm…
Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Otto Weininger was an Austrian philosopher who in 1903 published the book Geschlecht und Charakter, which gained popularity after his suicide at the age of 23. Weininger had a stro…
Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author (born 1880)