Explore 2322 historical events from 1900–1909.
The Second Boer War was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the Boer republics over Britain's influence in Southern Africa.
Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
The Battle of Elands River took place near the Elands River Poort mountain pass on 17 September 1901 during the Second Boer War. During the battle a Boer raiding force under Jan Sm…
Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
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.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. Previously serving for six months as vice president under William McKinley, Roosevelt…
Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick"…
Leon Frank Czolgosz was an American wireworker and anarchist who assassinated United States president William McKinley in 1901. Czolgosz had lost his job during the economic Panic …
Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US president William McKinley at the Pan-American…
The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising, Boxer Movement, Yihetuan Movement, or Boxer War, was an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North …
The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
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…
U.S. president William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is…
Annie Edson Taylor was an American schoolteacher who, on her 63rd birthday, October 24, 1901, became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
Al Lewis was an American lyricist, songwriter and music publisher. He is thought of mostly as a Tin Pan Alley era lyricist; however, he did write music on occasion as well. Profess…
Al Lewis, American songwriter (died 1967)
László Németh was a Hungarian writer, dramatist and essayist.
László Németh, Hungarian dentist, author, and playwright (died 1975)
Hyla Bristow Stallard, published as H. B. Stallard and familiarly known as Henry Stallard, was an English middle-distance runner and ophthalmologist.
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Emperor Shōwa was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1926 until his death in 1989. He remains the longest-reigning emperor i…
Hirohito, Japanese emperor (died 1989)
The Philippine–American War, known alternatively as the Filipino–American War, Philippine Insurrection, or Tagalog Insurgency, emerged in early 1899 following the United States' an…
Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. Previously serving for six months as vice president under William McKinley, Roosevelt…
President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
Edmund Brisco "Henry" Ford was a British ecological geneticist. He was a leader among those British biologists who investigated the role of natural selection in nature. As a school…
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Simon Smith Kuznets was a Russian-born American economist and statistician who received the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirically founded interpretati…
Simon Kuznets, Belarusian-American economist, statistician, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1985)
Sterling Allen Brown was an American professor, folklorist, poet, and literary critic. He chiefly studied black culture of the southern United States and was a professor at Howard …
Sterling Allen Brown, American poet, academic, and critic (died 1989)
Antal Szerb was a noted Hungarian scholar and writer. He is generally considered to be one of the most important Hungarian writers of the 20th century.
Antal Szerb, Hungarian scholar and author (died 1945)
Johannes Aadolfinpoika Mustonen was a Finnish politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Communist Party of Finland an…
Janne Mustonen, Finnish politician (died 1964)
Gary Cooper was an American actor known for his strong, silent screen persona and understated acting style. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice and had a further three no…
Gary Cooper, American actor (died 1961)
Norman Thomas "Turkey" Stearnes was an American baseball center fielder. He played 18 years in the Negro leagues, including nine years with the Detroit Stars (1923–1931), six years…
Turkey Stearnes, American baseball player (died 1979)
Rose Ausländer was a Jewish poet writing in German and English. Born in Czernowitz in the Bukovina, she lived through its tumultuous history of belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Em…
Rose Ausländer, poet and author (died 1988)
Gladys Rockmore Davis was an American artist who worked in both commercial and fine arts. She gave up a career in advertising art to work in creative painting. Her work in pastels …
Gladys Rockmore Davis, American painter (died 1967)
John Desmond Bernal was an Irish scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology. He published extensively on the history of science. In addition, Ber…
John Desmond Bernal, Irish-English crystallographer and physicist (died 1971)