Explore 2322 historical events from 1900–1909.
Samuel Fenton Cary was an American politician who was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio and significant temperance movement leader in the 19th century. Cary b…
Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician (born 1814)
Heinrich Picot de Peccaduc, Freiherr von Herzogenberg was an Austrian composer and conductor descended from a French aristocratic family.
Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (born 1843)
Zdeněk Fibich was a Czech composer of classical music. Among his compositions are chamber works, symphonic poems, three symphonies, at least seven operas, melodramas including the …
Zdeněk Fibich, Czech pianist and composer (born 1850)
Naim bey Frashëri, more commonly Naim Frashëri, was an Albanian historian, journalist, poet, translator, and one of the most prominent figures of the Albanian National Awakening. R…
Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and translator (born 1846)
Friedrich Max Müller was a German-born British comparative philologist and Orientalist. He was one of the founders of the Western academic disciplines of Indology and religious stu…
Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (born 1823)
Fatima Elizabeth Cates was a British Muslim convert and activist, who co-founded the Liverpool Muslim Institute. She was one of the first women in Britain to convert to Islam.
Fatima Cates, British Muslim convert and activist (born 1865)
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…
Second Boer War: The Siege of Mafeking in South Africa was lifted after 217 days, a decisive victory for the British aga
N'Djamena is the capital and largest city of Chad. It is also a Special Status Province, divided into 10 districts or arrondissements, similar to the city of Paris.
N'Djamena, now the capital of Chad, was founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil
A dust explosion is the rapid combustion of fine particles suspended in the air within an enclosed location. Dust explosions can occur where any dispersed powdered combustible mate…
A dust explosion at a coal mine near Scofield, Utah, U
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's fantasy novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A K…
The first copies of the children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L
The temperance movement in the United States, which sought to curb the consumption of alcohol, had a large influence on American politics and American society in the nineteenth and…
American temperance activist Carrie Nation entered a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas, and destroyed its stock of alcoholic bever
The Naval Laws were five separate laws passed by the German Empire, in 1898, 1900, 1906, 1908, and 1912. These acts, championed by Kaiser Wilhelm II and his State Secretary for the…
The second of the German Naval Laws was passed, authorising the doubling in size of the Imperial German Navy
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 …
Boxer Rebellion: Allied naval forces captured the Taku Forts from Qing China after a brief but bloody battle
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 …
Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army began a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Peking
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 10,000-strong column of soldiers led by Lord Kitchener broke a 13-day siege of a small garrison.
Gaetano Bresci was an Italian anarchist who assassinated King Umberto I of Italy. His experience working as a young weaver led him to the conclusion that he had faced exploitation …
Italian-American anarchist Gaetano Bresci assassinated King Umberto I of Italy in Monza.
Gaetano Bresci was an Italian anarchist who assassinated King Umberto I of Italy. His experience working as a young weaver led him to the conclusion that he had faced exploitation …
Italian-American anarchist Gaetano Bresci (pictured) assassinated King Umberto I of Italy in Monza.
The 1900 Galveston hurricane was a catastrophic tropical cyclone that became the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the United States. The strongest storm of the 1900 Atl…
The Great Galveston hurricane, the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history, struck Galveston, Texas, with estimated…