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1901

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Gēar:
1898 1899 1900 - 1901 - 1902 1903 1904
Gēartīenas:
1870e 1880e 1890e - 1900e - 1910e 1920e 1930e
Gēarhundredu:
19e gēarhundred - 20e gēarhundred - 21e gēarhundred

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List of state leaders in 1901
List of religious leaders in 1901
List of international organization leaders in 1901

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[ādihtan] Belimpas

  • January 1 - World celebrates what is regarded as the start of the new century. (Zero-ists' argument that new century should be celebrated in 1900 rejected worldwide).
  • January 1 - The six colonies that make up Australia are federated as under an act of the British Parliament, though full independence is a gradual process (see Australian Constitutional History).
  • January 1 - Nigeria becomes a British protectorate
  • January 7 - Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism
  • January 10 - The first great Texas gusher, ele biþ āfunden æt Spindletope in Beaumont, Texas
  • January 22 - Edward VII wierþ Cyning æfter þǣm þe his mōdor, Victoria Cwēn þæs Geānlǣhtan Cynedōmes, dies. His own sunu Prince George, Duke of York becomes Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay.
  • Solmōnaþ 20 - The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
  • Solmōnaþ 25 - J.P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
  • March 2 - The United States Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
  • March 6 - In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.
  • March 17 - A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
  • April 25 - New York state becomes the first to require automobile license plates.
  • May 9 - Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
  • May 27 - In New Jersey is Edison Storage Battery Company āfunden.
  • June 12 - Cuba becomes US protectorate
  • June 24 - First exhibition of Pablo Picasso opens. It receives favorable reviews.
  • July 4 - The 1,282 foot (390 meters) covered bridge crossing the St.John River at Hartland, New Brunswick, Canada opens. It is the longest covered bridge in the world.
  • July 24 - O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
  • September 2 - Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
  • September 5 - The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor League Baseball), is formed in Chicago, Illinois.
  • September 6 - American anarchist Leon Czolgosz scīeteþ and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies þǣr æfter eahta dagum.
  • September 7 - The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Peking Protocol.
  • September 14 - Mid dēaðe William McKinleyes, fēng Theodore Roosevelt æfter him tō Foresittendhāda
  • Winterfylleþ 2 - Royal Navy's first submarine launched at Barrow
  • Winterfylleþ 24 – Michigan schoolteacher Annie Taylor goes down Niagara Falls in a barrel and survives
  • Winterfylleþ 29 - In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
  • Winterfylleþ 29 - Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
  • November 9 - Prince George, Duke of Cornwall becomes Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.
  • Gēolmōnaþ 3 - US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
  • Gēolmōnaþ 10 – Marie Curie receives doctorate
  • Gēolmōnaþ 12 - Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal in Newfoundland, Canada; it is Morse code for þǣm bōcstæfe "S."


  • In United Kingdom, Factory Act forbids child labor under 12
  • Two typhoid outbreaks in USA
  • Car license plates in New York City
  • Winston Churchill enters the House of Commons
  • In Germany, Eugen Hollander makes the first known facelift to a Polish noblewoman
  • Miller Reese Hutchinson patents Acousticon, a heavy hearing-aid prototype
  • Scotland Yard creates a fingerprint archive

[ādihtan] Ungecnāwen dæg

  • Cleveland Indians founded
  • Europium wæs āfunden be Eugéne Demarcay
  • First prototype Harley-Davidson created
  • Okapi wæs āfunden (previously known only to local natives)
  • Katsura Taro wierþ Prime Minister of Japan
  • The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm
  • End of Boxer Rebellion in China
  • Independent Maya of Eastern Yucatān surrender to Mexico


[ādihtan] Byrda

  • January 3 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam (d. 1963)
  • January 16 - Frank Zamboni, inventor; most famous for the Zamboni machine (d. 1988)
  • January 26 - Stuart Symington, politician (d. 1988)
  • January 27 - Willy Fritsch, actor (d. 1973)
  • January 29 - Allen Du Mont, television pioneer
  • January 29 - E. P. Taylor, Canadian business tycoon (d. 1989)
  • January 30 - Rudolf Caracciola, driver of racing cars (d. 1959)
  • January 31 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, wrītere (d. 1974)
  • Solmōnaþ 1 - Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960)
  • Solmōnaþ 2 - Jascha Heifetz, drēamere (d. 1987)
  • Solmōnaþ 10 - Stella Adler, acting tǣcestre (d. 1992)
  • Solmōnaþ 16 - Wayne King, band leader ("The Waltz King")
  • Solmōnaþ 25 - Zeppo Marx, comedian, The Marx Brothers (d. 1979)
  • Solmōnaþ 27 - Horatio Luro, Hall of Fame horse trainer (d. 1991)
  • Solmōnaþ 28 - Linus Pauling, winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954 and Peace 1962; only person to win two Nobel Prizes outright (d. 1994)
  • March 4 - Charles Goren, bridge expert (d. 1991)
  • March 11 - Leopold III of Belgium (d.. 1983)
  • March 21 - Karl Arnold, politician (d. 1958)
  • March 24 - Ub Iwerks, cartoonist (d. 1971)
  • March 27 - Carl Barks, Donald Duck illustrator (d. 2000)
  • March 27 - Erich Ollenhauer, politician (d. 1963)
  • April 1 - Whittaker Chambers, spy (d. 1961)
  • April 29 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan (d. 1989)
  • May 5 - Blind Willie McTell, blues sangere (d. 1959)
  • May 7 - Gary Cooper, actor (d. 1961)
  • May 17 - Werner Egk, composer (d. 1983)
  • May 20 - Max Euwe, Dutch world champion chess 1935-1937 (d. 1981)
  • May 21 - Horace Heidt, band leader (d. 1986)
  • May 21 - Sam Jaffe, producer (d. 2000)
  • June 17 - F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, WW II SOE agent and hero (d. 1964)
  • June 18 - Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (d. 1918)
  • June 24 - Harry Partch, microtonal composer (d. 1974)
  • July 17 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (d. 1938)
  • July 20 - Heinie Manush, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1971)
  • July 31 - Jean Dubuffet, painter (d. 1985)
  • August 4 - Louis Armstrong, jazz drēamere (d. 1971)
  • September 9 - James Blades, English percussionist (d. 1999)
  • September 29 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist (d. 1954)
  • September 29 - Lanza del Vasto, philosopher, poet and non-violent activist (d. 1981)
  • Winterfylleþ 2 - Kiki, sangestre (d. 1953)
  • Winterfylleþ 10 - Alberto Giacometti, Italian sculptor (d. 1966)
  • November 22 - Joaquin Rodrigo, composer (d. 1999)
  • Gēolmōnaþ 5 - Walter Elias Disney, later known as Walt Disney, American animator and film producer (d. 1966)
  • Gēolmōnaþ 5 - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist (d. 1976)
  • Gēolmōnaþ 16 - Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist (d. 1978)
  • Gēolmōnaþ 19 - Rudolf Hell, inventor (d. 2002)
  • Gēolmōnaþ 25- Her Royal Highness Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester
  • Gēolmōnaþ 31 - Karl-August Fagerholm, Prime Minister of Finland (d. 1984)
  • Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin, later ōðer wīf Iosefes Stalines (d. 1932)

[ādihtan] Dēaðas

  • January 11 - Vasily Kalinnikov, composer
  • January 22 - Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India dies, after the longest ever reign by a British monarch.
  • January 27 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian grand opera composer
  • Solmōnaþ 11 - Milan I, cyning Serbia.
  • Solmōnaþ 22 - George Francis FitzGerald, mathematician
  • March 13 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States
  • April 3 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, impresario
  • June 2 - George Leslie Mackay, missionary
  • July 4 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist
  • August 5 - The Empress Frederick, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and mother of German Emperor Wilhelm II
  • September 5 - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovene physicist (b. 1853)
  • September 9 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter
  • September 14 - William McKinley US Foresittend
  • October 29 - Leon Czolgosz assassin US Foresittendes William McKinley
  • Abdur Rahman Khan, amir of Afghanistan

[ādihtan] Nobel Prizes

  • Physics - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
  • Chemistry - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
  • Medicine - Emil Adolf von Behring
  • Literature - Sully Prudhomme
  • Peace - Jean Henri Dunant, Frédéric Passy

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