1901

1901 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1901; MCMI
Ab urbe condita	2654
Armenian calendar	1350; ԹՎ ՌՅԾ
Assyrian calendar	6651
Baháʼí calendar	57–58
Balinese saka calendar	1822–1823
Bengali calendar	1308
Berber calendar	2851
British Regnal year	64 Vict. 1 – 1 Edw. 7
Buddhist calendar	2445
Burmese calendar	1263
Byzantine calendar	7409–7410
Chinese calendar	庚子年 (Metal Rat); 4598 or 4391; — to —; 辛丑年 (Metal Ox); 4599 or 4392
Coptic calendar	1617–1618
Discordian calendar	3067
Ethiopian calendar	1893–1894
Hebrew calendar	5661–5662
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1957–1958
- Shaka Samvat	1822–1823
- Kali Yuga	5001–5002
Holocene calendar	11901
Igbo calendar	901–902
Iranian calendar	1279–1280
Islamic calendar	1318–1319
Japanese calendar	Meiji 34; (明治３４年)
Javanese calendar	1830–1831
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4234
Minguo calendar	11 before ROC; 民前11年
Nanakshahi calendar	433
Thai solar calendar	2443–2444
Tibetan calendar	阳金鼠年; (male Iron-Rat); 2027 or 1646 or 874; — to —; 阴金牛年; (female Iron-Ox); 2028 or 1647 or 875

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century; 20th century ; 21st century;
Decades:	1880s; 1890s; 1900s ; 1910s; 1920s;
Years:	1898; 1899; 1900; 1901 ; 1902; 1903; 1904;

Template:C20YearInTopicX Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday ^[1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). It was the first year of the 20th century. Template:C20YearTOC

Events of 1901

January

January 1: Commonwealth of Australia forms as British colonies federate.

January 1 - The world celebrates the beginning of the Twentieth Century.
January 1 - The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia. Edmond Barton becomes first Prime Minister.
January 1 - Nigeria becomes a British protectorate
January 5 - Typhoid fever breaks out in a Seattle jail, the first of two typhoid outbreaks in USA during the year.
January 7 - Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism.
January 10 - In the first great Texas gusher, oil is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
January 22 - After reigning for almost 64 years, longer than any other British monarch, Queen Victoria dies at the age of 81. Her eldest son, Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales becomes King, reigning as King Edward VII until 1910. His son, Prince George, Duke of York becomes Duke of Cornwall.
January 28 - Baseball's American League declares itself a Major League.

February

February 14 - King Edward VII opens his first parliament.
February 20 - The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.

March

March 2 - The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
March 4 - United States President William McKinley begins his 2nd term. Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
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.
March 31 - The United Kingdom Census 1901 is taken.

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March 6: Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany survives assassination attempt.

April

April 25 - New York State becomes the first to require automobile license plates.

May

May 3 - The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, FL.
May 5 - Official end of the Caste War of Yucatán, although Mayan skirmishers continue sporadic fighting for another decade.
May 9 - Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
May 17 - The U.S. stock market crashes for the first time.
May 24 - 78 miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
May 25 - The Club Atlético River Plate is founded in Argentina.
May 27 - In New Jersey, the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.
May 28 - Iran (known as Persia until 1935) grants William Knox D'Arcy a concession, giving him the right to prospect for oil.

June

June 2 - Katsura Taro becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
June 12 - Cuba becomes a US protectorate.

June 12: Cuba becomes a United States protectorate.

July

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 Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from the First National Bank in Austin, Texas.

August

August 5 - Peter O'Connor sets the first International Association of Athletics Federations recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11¾ins. The record will stand for 20 years.

September

September 2 - U.S. 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.
September 6 - American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies eight days later.
September 7 - The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
September 14 - Theodore Roosevelt succeeds William McKinley as President of the United States.
September 26 - The body of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is exhumed and reinterred in concrete several feet thick.

October

October 2 - The Royal Navy's first submarine is launched at Barrow.
October 4 - The American yacht Columbia defeats the Irish Shamrock in the America's Cup yachting race.
October 16 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt invites African American leader Booker T. Washington to the White House. The American South reacts angrily to the visit, and racial violence increases in the region.
October 23 - Yale University celebrates its bicentennial.
October 24 - Michigan schoolteacher Annie Taylor goes down Niagara Falls in a barrel and survives.
October 29 - In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
October 29 - Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.

November

November 1 - Sigma Phi Epsilon is founded in Richmond, VA.
November 9 - Prince George, Duke of Cornwall becomes Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.
November 15 - Alpha Sigma Alpha is founded at Longwood University.
November 28 - The new state constitution of Alabama requires voters to have passed literacy tests.

December

December 3 - US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits."
December 10 - The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
December 12 - Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal in Newfoundland, Canada; it is Morse code for the letter "S."
December 20 - The final spike is driven into the Mombasa-Victoria-Uganda Railway in what is now Kisumu, Kenya.

Undated

Scotland Yard creates a fingerprint archive.
Europium is isolated by Eugène-Anatole Demarçay.
William S. Harley draws up plans for his first prototype motorcycle.
The okapi is observed for the first time (previously known only to local natives).
Independent Maya of Eastern Yucatán surrender to Mexico.
Intercollegiate Prohibition Association established in Chicago.
Shō Tai (Shang Tai), the last king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in modern Okinawa, Japan, dies.
New Zealand inventor, Ernest Godward invents the spiral hairpin, one of the most widely-used devices on the planet.
The first reliable census in India is taken.

Ongoing

Births

January-February

January 3 - Ngo Dinh Diem, 1st President of South Vietnam (d. 1963)
January 4 - CLR James, Trinidad-born writer and journalist (d. 1989)
January 14 - Bebe Daniels, American actress (d. 1971)
January 16 - Fulgencio Batista, Cuban leader (d. 1973)
January 16 - Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)
January 24 - Harry Calder, South African cricketer (d. 1995)
January 26 - Stuart Symington, American politician (d. 1988)
January 27 - Art Rooney, American football team owner (d. 1988)
January 29 - E. P. Taylor, Canadian business tycoon (d. 1989)
January 30 - Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (d. 1959)
February 1 - Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960)
February 2 - Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (d. 1987)
February 10 - Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992)
February 15 - João Branco Núncio, Portuguese bullfighter (d. 1976)
February 22 - Mildred Davis, American actress (d. 1969)
February 25 - Zeppo Marx, American comedian (d. 1979)
February 27 - Horatio Luro, Argentine horse trainer (d. 1991)
February 28 - Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (d. 1994)

March-April

March 4 - Charles Goren, American bridge player (d. 1991)
March 4 - Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy-French poet (d. 1937)
March 17 - Alfred Newman, American film composer (d. 1970)
March 21 - Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958)
March 22 - Greta Kempton, American artist (d. 1991)
March 24 - Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d. 1971)
March 27 - Carl Barks, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
March 27 - Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (d. 1963)
March 27 - Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1975)
March 27 - Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (d. 1971)
March 28 - Jack Weil, American entrepreneur
April 1 - Whittaker Chambers, American spy (d. 1961)
April 15 - Joe Davis, English snooker and billiards player (d. 1978)
April 18 - Al Lewis, American songwriter (d. 1967)
April 29 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan (d. 1989)
April 30 - Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)

May-June

May 5 - Blind Willie McTell, American singer (d. 1959)
May 7 - Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961)
May 17 - Werner Egk, German composer (d. 1983)
May 18 - Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
May 20 - Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (d. 1981)
May 21 - Horace Heidt, American bandleader (d. 1986)
May 21 - Sam Jaffe, American film producer (d. 2000)
May 21 - Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist, and playwright (d. 1992)
May 31 - Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (d. 1983)
June 3 - Chang Hsüeh-liang, Chinese military leader (d. 2001)
June 6 - Sukarno, first President of Indonesia (d. 1970)
June 17 - F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, English World War II hero (d. 1964)
June 18 - Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (d. 1918)
June 20- Edward Cullen born character From Stephenie Meyer's Twilight
June 23 - Chuck Taylor, American basketball player and salesman (d. 1969)
June 24 - Harry Partch, American composer (d. 1974)
June 29 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)

July-August

July 7 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film director and special effects designer (d. 1970)
July 9 - Barbara Cartland, English novelist (d. 2000)
July 17 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (d. 1938)
July 20 - Heinie Manush, American baseball player (d. 1971)
July 21 - Albert Hamilton Gordon, American businessman and philanthropist
July 31 - Jean Dubuffet, French painter (d. 1985)
August 1 - Pancho Villa, Filipino boxer (d. 1925)
August 4 - Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician (d. 1971)
August 8 - Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
August 10 - Franco Dino Rasetti, Italian scientist (d. 2001)
August 18 - Jean Guitton, French writer and philosopher (d. 1999)
August 20 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
August 26 - Maxwell Taylor, American general (d. 1987)
August 26 - Chen Yi, Chinese military commander and politician (d. 1972)
August 30 - John Gunther, American writer (d. 1970)

September-October

September 9 - James Blades, English percussionist (d. 1999)
September 9 - Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1966)
September 12 - Ben Blue, Canadian comedian and actor (d. 1975)
September 15 - Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (d. 1985)
September 22 - Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1997)
September 23 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
September 28 - Ed Sullivan, American entertainer (d. 1974)
September 28 - William S. Paley, American businessman (d. 1990)
September 29 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
September 29 - Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher, poet, and activist (d. 1981)
October 2 - Alice Prin, French singer (d. 1953)
October 10 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)
October 24 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born dancer and actress (d. 1959)

November-December

November 3 - Léopold III of Belgium (d. 1983)
November 4 - Masako Nashimoto, Crown Princess of Korea (d. 1989)
November 7 - Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1980)
November 18 - George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (d. 1984)
November 22 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (d. 1999)
November 29 - Mildred Harris, American actress (d. 1944)
December 5 - Milton Erickson, American psychiatrist (d. 1980)
December 5 - Walt Disney, American animator and film producer (d. 1966)
December 5 - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
December 16 - Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist (d. 1978)
December 19 - Rudolf Hell, German inventor (d. 2002)
December 25 - Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (d. 2004)
December 27 - Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress (d. 1992)
December 31 - Karl-August Fagerholm, Prime Minister of Finland (d. 1984)
date unknown - Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin, second wife of Joseph Stalin (d. 1932)

Deaths

January - June

January 1 - Ignatius L. Donnelly, U.S. politician and writer (b. 1831)
January 8 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
January 11 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (b. 1866)
January 16 - Arnold Böcklin, Swiss artist (b. 1827)
January 16 - Mahadev Govind Ranade, Indian reformer (b. 1842)
January 21 - Elisha Gray, American inventor and appliance manufacturer (b. 1835)
January 22 - Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India (b. 1819)
January 27 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
February 11 - King Milan I of Serbia (b. 1854)
February 22 - George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician (b. 1851)
February 26 - Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa, Polish writer (b. 1829)
March 13 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833)
April 3 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, English impresario (b. 1844)
April 19 - Alfred Horatio Belo, American businessman and newswriter (b. 1839)
May 1 - Lewis Waterman, American inventor and businessman (b. 1837)
May 22 - Gaetano Bresci Italian anarchist and assassin (b 1869)
May 24 - Charlotte Mary Yonge, English novelist (b. 1823)
June 2 - George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
June 9 - Walter Besant, English writer (b. 1836)

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July - December

July 4 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (b. 1843)
July 6 - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)
August 5 - Victoria, Empress of Germany (b. 1840)
August 12 - Francesco Crispi, Italian Prime Minister (b. 1819)
August 24 - Clara Maass, American nurse (b. 1876)
September 5 - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
September 9 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
September 14 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (b. 1843)
October 1 - Abdor Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (b. 1844)
October 10 - Lorenzo Snow, Mormon leader (b. 1814)
October 19 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
October 29 - Leon Czolgosz, Polish-American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (b. 1873)
November 7 - Li Hongzhang, Chinese general (b. 1823)
November 27 - Clement Studebaker, American manufacturer (b. 1831)
November 30 - Edward John Eyre, English explorer (b. 1815)
December 1 - George Lohmann, English cricketer (b. 1865)

Nobel prizes

Notes

^ "Calendar in year 1901 (Russia)" (Julian on Monday), webpage: Julian-1901 (Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).

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[1] "Calendar in year 1901 (Russia)" (Julian on Monday), webpage: Julian-1901 (Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).

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