US and World History -- Year In Context
(In large part, dates are from  http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/dates)

1850's
1860's
1870's
1880's
1890's
1900's          00 01 02  030405  06 0708 09
1910's
1920's

1900

?? ?? 1900 Claude Monet is in London and paints his House of Parliament series
02 01 1900 Secretary of State John Hay announces the Open Door Policy with China to improve trade

20 01 1900 John Ruskin, philosopher, died
22 02 1900 Hawaii becomes a US Territory
24 03 1900 Construction of New York City subway system begins
30 04 1900 Casey Jones killed
13 06 1900 beginning of the Boxer rebellion against foreigners in China
02 07 1900 1st flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1)
14 08 1900 An international force including U.S. Marines enter Beijing to put down the Boxer rebellion
03 11 1900 The Automobile Club of America sponsored the first automobile show in the United States at Madison Square Garden
13 11 1900 Brothers and Sisters of Red Death attempt mass suicide before world ends
30 11 1900 Oscar Wilde, Irish author, died
27 12 1900 Carrie Nation's first raid

1901

10 01 1901 First oil gusher, Beaumont TX
22 01 1901 Queen Victoria, long time queen of England, died at her winter home on the Isle of Wight
02 09 1901 V.P. Theodore Roosevelt offered the advice, "Speak softly and carry a big stick," in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair

06 09 1901 President William McKinley shot. He died 9 days later
07 09 1901 The Boxer Rebellion in China ends
14 09 1901 President William McKinley died
24 10 1901 To repay a loan on her Texas Ranch, Mrs Anna Taylor goes over Niagara Falls in a barrel and was the first person to survive the attempt
29 10 1901 Leon Czolgosz was electrocuted for assassination of President McKinley

1902

28 12 1902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US

1903

?? ?? 1903 Great automobile race from New York City to Pittsburgh takes eight days
19 01 1903 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England
17 07 1903 James Whistler, painter, lithographer, died
22 09 1903 Patent was granted for the Ice Cream Cone
25 09 1903 Mark Rothko, the American Painter, was born in Dvinsk, Russia
13 10 1903 The first world series game was played
03 11 1903 Panama gains its independence from Columbia
18 11 1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, gave US exclusive canal rights thru Panama
17 12 1903 at 10:35AM, for 12 seconds, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight by Wright Brothers

1904

04 02 1904 beginning of the Russo-Japanese War
23 07 1904 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis, MO
10 08 1904 Heavy losses are inflicted to the Russian Fleet off Port Aurthor by the Japanese
28 10 1904 St. Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints

1905

?? ?? 1905 Alfred Stieglitz opens Photo Secessionist Gallery "291"in New York City: to show European and American modernists
26 01 1905 Captain Wells discovers the largest diamond in the world, at the premier Mines in Pretoria, South Africa
09 03 1905 Japanese defeat the Russians at Mukden
15 05 1905 Las Vegas, Nevada was founded

1906

06 04 1906 first animated cartoon was copyrighted
18 04 1906 Great San Francisco earthquake kills over 500 people
18 04 1906 San Francisco Fire sweeps city
20 10 1906 Dr Lee DeForest gives a demonstration of his radio tube
22 11 1906 the International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS" as the new call for help
23 11 1906 Joseph F. Smith, president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (The Mormons) was convicted of polygamy
02 12 1906 Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records
24 12 1906 1st known radio program in US was broadcast

1907

13 03 1907 New York stock market crash
14 03 1907 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental U.S
26 08 1907 Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 seconds
16 11 1907 Oklahoma becomes the 46th state
16 12 1907 Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on its World Cruise

1908

?? ?? 1908 First Model T rolls off the Ford assembly line
21 01 1908 New York City enacted an ordinance that made smoking by women in public punishable by a fine of from $5 to $25 and up to 10 days in jail
08 02 1908 Boy Scouts of America founded
12 02 1908 The six cars entered in the New York to Paris road race set off on their 12116 mile race through Alaska and Russia. America won
13 07 1908 Women first compete in Olympic games
01 10 1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car

1909

?? ?? 1909 Great White Fleet of 16 battleships completes trip around the world
?? ?? 1909 NAACP founded by W. E. B. DuBois
?? ?? 1909 Robert E. Peary (a white) & Matthew A. Henson (a black) reach North Pole
06 04 1909 Commander R. E. Peary arrives at the North Pole
25 07 1909 1st airplane flight across the English Channel
27 07 1909 Orville Wright tested the US Army's first airplane, flying it for one hour and 12 minutes
24 08 1909 Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal
06 09 1909 Word was received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died
?? 11 1909 The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston opens their new building location on Huntington Ave

updated 10/03/2003