Explore 1816 historical events from 1900–1909.
Edward Henry Harriman was an American financier and railroad executive as well as one of the founders of the Harriman business dynasty.
E. H. Harriman, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1848)
Sir Thomas Bent was an Australian politician and the 22nd premier of Victoria.
Thomas Bent, Australian businessman and politician, 22nd Premier of Victoria (born 1838)
Grigore George Tocilescu was a Romanian historian, archaeologist, epigrapher and folkorist, and member of the Romanian Academy.
Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian archaeologist and historian (born 1850)
The 1909 Giro d'Italia was the 1st edition of the Giro d'Italia, organized and sponsored by the Italian major sport newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The event began in Milan on 1…
The inaugural edition of the Giro d'Italia, a long-distance multiple-stage bicycle race, began in Milan; the Italian cy
Alice Huyler Ramsey was an American who was the first woman to drive an automobile across the United States from coast to coast, a feat she completed on August 7, 1909.
Fifty-nine days after leaving New York City with three passengers, Alice Huyler Ramsey arrived in San Francisco to…
The Goudi coup was a military coup d'état by a group of military officers that took place on the night of 28 August [O.S. 15 August] 1909, at the barracks in Goudi, located on the …
A military coup against the government of Dimitrios Rallis began in the neighbourhood of Goudi in Athens, Greece.
Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It …
Pluto (pictured) was photographed for the first time at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, U.S., 21…
The 1909 Monterrey hurricane was one of the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclones on record, killing an estimated 4,000 people throughout Mexico, and is considered as the deadliest …
The 1909 Monterrey hurricane dissipated; one of the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclones on record, it killed an…
Natural Bridges National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of the Four Corners boundary of southeast Utah, in the western United States,…
Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah
The New South Wales Rugby League Ltd (NSWRL) is an Australian rugby league football competition operator in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory and is a member of …
Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League
Masjed Soleyman is a city in the Central District of Masjed Soleyman County, Khuzestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia
Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family or individual, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on d…
Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia
The University of the Philippines is a state public university system and the national university of the Philippines under Republic Act No. 9500. Established on June 18, 1908, by t…
The University of the Philippines is established
The Tunguska event was a large explosion of between 3–50 megatons TNT equivalent that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate, Russia, on the morning…
The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over E
The Second Constitutional Era was the period of restored parliamentary rule in the Ottoman Empire between the 1908 Young Turk Revolution and the 1920 retraction of the constitution…
The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
Japanese Brazilians are Brazilian citizens who are nationals or naturals of Japanese ancestry or Japanese immigrants living in Brazil. Japanese immigration to Brazil peaked between…
Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru
The Persian Cossack Brigade, also known as the Iranian Cossack Brigade, was a Cossack-style cavalry unit formed in 1879 in Iran. It was modelled after the Caucasian Cossack regimen…
The Persian Cossack Brigade bombards the building of the National Consultative Assembly of Iran (Majles), killing hundre
SOS is a Morse code distress signal, used internationally, originally established for maritime use. In formal notation SOS is written with an overscore line, to indicate that the M…
SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
The Young Turk Revolution was a constitutionalist revolution in the Ottoman Empire. Revolutionaries belonging to the Internal Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), an organization…
Start of the Young Turk Revolution in the Ottoman Empire, forcing Sultan Abdul Hamid II leads to restore the…
Ajinomoto Co., Inc. is a Japanese multinational food and biotechnology corporation which produces seasonings, cooking oils, frozen foods, beverages, sweeteners, amino acids, insul…
Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup…
General Motors Company (GM) is an American multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States. The company is most known for owning an…
The General Motors Corporation is founded.
Ellis Louis Marsalis Sr. was an American businessman from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was a former poultry farmer turned hotelier, Esso franchise owner and civil rights activist.
Ellis Marsalis, Sr
Raymond Ventura was a French jazz pianist and bandleader. He helped popularize jazz in France in the 1930s. His nephew was singer Sacha Distel.
Ray Ventura, French jazz bandleader (died 1979)
The United States attorney general (AG) is the head of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and serves as the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government. The …
United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief…