Notable Historical Events - 1901
1901 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Australia declares independence from federation of UK colonies |
Jan 8 |
New South Wales score 918 all out vs South Australia in 560 minutes |
Jan 9 |
NSW (918) defeat S Australia (157 & 156) by innings & 605 |
Jan 10 |
Oil discovered in Texas |
Jan 18 |
Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Graves De Communi Re |
Jan 21 |
Clyde Fitch's "Climbers," premieres in NYC |
Jan 22 |
After 63 years Britain stops sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series & begins King Edward VII series |
Jan 24 |
1st games played in baseball's American League |
Jan 24 |
Emily Hobhouse views the British administrated concentration camp at Bloemfontein for women and children |
Jan 24 |
Denmark and the US sign a treaty under which Denmark will sell the Danish West Indies to the USA for $5 million, but the sale will be postponed until 1917 |
Jan 31 |
Boer general John Smuts & De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal |
Jan 31 |
Chekhov's "Three Sisters" opens at Moscow Art Theater |
Jan 31 |
Winnipeg Victorias sweep Montreal Shamrocks in 2 for Stanley Cup |
Jan 31 |
Austro-Hungarian Empire: The Reichsrath, disolved on 7 September 1900 by Employer Franz Joseph, reopens after the recent elections have defeated extremists |
Feb 2 |
Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization |
Feb 2 |
Queen Victoria's funeral takes place. |
Feb 2 |
Mexican government troops are ambushed by Yaqui Indians, 100 killed |
Feb 2 |
The US Congress passes the Army Reorganization Act, placing the minimum number of men under arms at 58,000 |
Feb 3 |
Dutch troops under Gen Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilië on Sumatra |
Feb 4 |
Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Joseph, gives a speech condemning the demands of national groups and calls for economic and social reform |
Feb 5 |
Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot |
Feb 5 |
Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp |
Feb 12 |
Dutch Penitentiary children's law proclaimed |
Feb 18 |
H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner |
Feb 18 |
Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons. |
Feb 20 |
1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes |
Feb 21 |
In Cuba, the constitutional delegates adopt a constitution much like that of the USA |
Feb 25 |
George Cohan's musical "Governor's Son," premieres in NYC |
Feb 25 |
US Steel Corp organized under J P Morgan |
Feb 26 |
British general Kitchener confers with Boer general Louis Botha about peace conditions, which break down over the question of amnesty for some Boers |
Feb 27 |
NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes |
Feb 27 |
A General Committee of National Liberal Federation meets and adopts a resolution deploring the continuation of the war in South Africa and condemning the British Government's insistence on unconditional surrender by the Boers |
Mar 2 |
Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens |
Mar 2 |
The United States Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops. |
Mar 3 |
Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Dept of Commerce |
Mar 4 |
1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-Natl Intelligencer) |
Mar 4 |
President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president; Theodore |Roosevelt serves as Vice President |
Mar 4 |
Term of George H White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends |
Mar 6 |
In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany. |
Mar 11 |
Cincinnati Enquirer reports Balt mgr John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant |
Mar 12 |
Ground is broken for Boston's 1st AL ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds) |
Mar 14 |
1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A |
Mar 14 |
Germany's Chancellor von Bulow declares that the agreement Germany signed with England in October 1900, to restrain foreign aggression and maintain open trade, does not apply to Manchuria |
Mar 15 |
Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th |
Mar 17 |
Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands |
Mar 17 |
A showing of seventy-one Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation. |
Mar 23 |
Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast |
Mar 25 |
55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown, Iowa |
Mar 29 |
Edmund Barton is elected Prime Minister in Australia's first election of its parliament |
Apr 5 |
Under threats from the Ottoman Turkish Government, Bulgaria is forced to arrest the leaders of the Macedonian Committee |
Apr 7 |
SDAP demands general voting right/abolishing First Chamber |
Apr 15 |
1st British motorized burial |
Apr 15 |
Pope Leo XIII issues an allocution deploring hostile actions against the Roman Catholic Church throughout Europe |
Apr 19 |
5th Boston Marathon won by Jim Caffrey of Canada in 2:29:23.6 |
Apr 19 |
James J Caffrey wins Boston marathon (2:29:23.6) |
Apr 19 |
In the Philippines, recently captured insurgent leader Emilio Aguinaldo issues a proclamation advising his countrymen to end their rebellion and use of peaceful means to work with the US toward independence. |
Apr 24 |
1st AL game, Chic beats Cleve Blues 8-2, 3 other games rained out |
Apr 25 |
Erve Beck hits American League's 1st home run |
Apr 25 |
New York becomes 1st state requiring auto license plates ($1 fee) |
Apr 25 |
In last of 9th, Detroit Tigers, trailing by 13-4, score 10 runs to win one of greatest comebacks in baseball (1st game in Detroit) |
Apr 28 |
1st soccer game between Belgium (8) & Netherlands (0) |
Apr 28 |
Cleveland's Bock Baker gives up a record 23 singles as White Sox beat Blues (Cleveland Blues!) 13-1 |
Apr 29 |
27th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on His Eminence wins in 2:07.75 |
Apr 29 |
Antisemitic riot in Budapest |
May 1 |
Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox |
May 1 |
Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in American League |
May 1 |
Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo |
May 3 |
Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida |
May 8 |
In their long-delayed AL home opener, Boston defeats Phila 12-4 |
May 8 |
A British appointed commission estimates today that some 1,250,000 Indians have died after a severe drought, lasting since 1899 |
May 9 |
Cleve's Earl Moore no-hits Chicago White Sox 9 inn but loses in 10th 4-2 |
May 9 |
The first Australian Parliament opens in Melbourne, though the first working session will not be until 21 May |
May 9 |
A financial panic begins in the USA following the struggle between two groups to control the railroads between the Great Lakes and the Pacific |
May 12 |
US President McKinley visits San Francisco |
May 16 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Priory School" (BG) |
May 23 |
35th Belmont: H Spencer aboard Commando wins in 2:21 |
May 23 |
Indians score 9 runs after 2 outs in 9th to beat Senators 14-13 |
May 23 |
Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent |
May 23 |
US captures leader of Filippino rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo |
May 24 |
Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales. |
May 28 |
26th Preakness: Fred Landry aboard The Parader wins in 1:47.2 |
May 28 |
Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous) |
May 30 |
Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated |
May 31 |
At the opening of the Greek National Assembly, Prince George, High Commissioner of Crete, asks it to endorse the union of Crete with Greece; the proposal is later rejected |
Jun 2 |
Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday (NY) |
Jun 9 |
NY Giants get record 31 hits to beat Cin Reds 25-13 |
Jun 11 |
Cook Islands annexed & proclaimed part of New Zealand |
Jun 12 |
In Cuba, the constitutional convention - knowing that the USA will not withdraw its troops until does so - adopts the Platt Amendment as part of its constitution |
Jun 14 |
1st golf championship is played |
Jun 15 |
7th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 331 at Myopia Hunt Club MA |
Jun 17 |
The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT. |
Jun 20 |
Charlotte Manye is 1st native African to graduate from a US college |
Jun 24 |
1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris |
Jun 24 |
Jewish National Fund starts |
Jul 2 |
Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner, Montana |
Jul 3 |
18th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Charlotte Sterry beats B Hillyard (6-2 6-2) |
Jul 3 |
25th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Arthur Gore beats R Doherty (4-6 7-5 6-4 6-4) |
Jul 4 |
William Howard Taft, a former Federal judge, is installed as first governor-general of the Philippines and declares amnesty for all insurgents who take an oath of allegiance |
Jul 12 |
Cy Young wins his 300th game |
Jul 12 |
Striking Canadian salmon fishermen on the Pacific coast, resentful of the nonunion Japanese who continue to fish, maroon and imprison 47 |
Jul 12 |
In Germany a group of 104 aristocrats present a deceleration against dueling, though the tradition will go on |
Jul 15 |
NY Giant Christy Mathewson no-hits St Louis, 5-0 |
Jul 16 |
The Fawcett Commission headed by Millicent Fawcett is established as a result of an outcry against the treatment of Afrikaners in concentration camps during the South African War |
Jul 20 |
Morocco signs an agreement with France fixing Morocco's frontier with Algeria, a French colony |
Jul 22 |
Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro |
Jul 22 |
British House of Lords, in its role as court, rules trade unions can be sued for actions of its members - in Taff Vale Case |
Jul 24 |
O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank. |
Jul 25 |
Emily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps during the South African War |
Jul 31 |
Abraham Kuyper becomes premier of Netherlands |
Aug 1 |
Burials within San Francisco City limits prohibited |
Aug 5 |
Peter O'Connor of Ireland, sets then long jump record at 24' 11 3/4" |
Aug 6 |
Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation. |
Aug 9 |
34-35°N/98-99°W open for US colonization |
Aug 10 |
Chicago White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners |
Aug 12 |
Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony |
Aug 14 |
SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska & sinks killing 70 |
Aug 14 |
The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21. |
Aug 15 |
Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro |
Aug 15 |
Great Britain issues a proclamation calling on the Boers to surrender by 15 September or face banishment and confiscation of their property |
Aug 17 |
The Royal Titles Act adds the words 'and the British Dominions beyond the Seas' to the monarch's style |
Aug 20 |
The Fawcett Commission visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony |
Aug 21 |
21st US Men's Tennis: William Larned beats Beals C Wright (6-2 6-8 6-4 6-4) |
Aug 21 |
Joe McGinnity, suspended from NL for punching & spitting on an umpire |
Aug 22 |
Cadillac Motor Company is founded. |
Aug 30 |
Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner |
Sep 1 |
Construction begins on NY Stock Exchange |
Sep 2 |
VP Theodore Roosevelt advises "Speak softly & carry a big stick" |
Sep 3 |
Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony |
Sep 5 |
National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms |
Sep 6 |
US President William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in New York |
Sep 7 |
Peace of Peking - Ends Boxer Rebellion in China |
Sep 12 |
Arabs attack Gedara Palestine |
Sep 14 |
Theodore Roosevelt is sword in as President, the youngest man to serve as President of the US, after William McKinley finally dies after an anarchist shoots him in Buffalo |
Sep 16 |
Alturas, California, is incorporated as the only city in Modoc County. |
Sep 17 |
Battle of Blood River Port: Boer Gen Botha beats Major Gough's cavalry |
Sep 17 |
Battle at Elands River Port: Boer Gen Smuts destroys unit 17th Lancers |
Sep 19 |
11 baseball games canceled due to funeral of Pres William McKinley |
Sep 26 |
Boer General Botha fails to capture Fort Itala in Natal |
Sep 26 |
Great Britain annexes the Ashanti Kingdom and places it under the governor of the Gold Coast (Ghana) |
Sep 28 |
Guerrilla's assault unarmed US soldiers in Balangiga Phil, 38 killed |
Oct 2 |
First Royal Naval submarine launched at Barrow |
Oct 4 |
Columbia (US) beats Shamrock II (England) in 12th America's Cup |
Oct 12 |
Theodore Roosevelt renames "Executive Mansion," "The White House" |
Oct 14 |
Justin Huntly McCarthy's "If I were King" premieres in NYC |
Oct 16 |
Baron Hayashi of Japan begins negotiations in London to make an alliance with the British and strengthen Japan's position against Russians |
Oct 18 |
Belgium's Louise of den Plas begins activities towards women rights |
Oct 19 |
Edward Elgar's "Pomp & Circumstance March," premieres in Liverpool |
Oct 19 |
Santos-Dumont proves airship maneuverable by circling Eiffel Tower |
Oct 24 |
First woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor) |
Oct 25 |
In Great Britain, Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Affairs Secretary, makes an anti-German speech in Edinburgh; when word reaches Germany it leads to widespread agitation against the British and eventual breakdown of negotiations for an Anglo-German alliance |
Oct 26 |
First recorded use of "getaway car" occurs after holding up a shop in Paris |
Oct 27 |
1st complete performance of Debussy's "Nocturnes" |
Oct 29 |
In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine. |
Oct 30 |
Battle at Bakenlaagte: lt-col Benson's unit vs Boers |
Nov 1 |
Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA. |
Nov 4 |
Clyde Fitch's "Way of the World" premieres in NYC |
Nov 7 |
A French fleet seizes the customs house on the Turkish-ruled island of Mytilene after Turks refuse to settle France's indemnity claims for losses suffered by French subjects in 1896 |
Nov 8 |
Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek. |
Nov 11 |
Maurice Ravel composition "Jeux d'eau" premieres |
Nov 13 |
The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster. |
Nov 15 |
james j jeffries TKOs Gus Ruhlin in 6 for heavyweight boxing title in San Francisco |
Nov 16 |
3 autos race on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, fastest speed achieved by Henry Fournier who drives a mile in 51 4/5 seconds |
Nov 18 |
The USA and Great Britain sign the Second Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, or Interoceanic Ship Canal Treaty |
Nov 20 |
Opera "Grisélidis" is produced (Paris) |
Nov 21 |
Richard Strauss' opera "Feuersnot" premieres in Dresden |
Nov 26 |
Italy and Britain sign an agreement fixing the frontier between their colonies of Eritrea and Sudan in East Africa |
Nov 27 |
Army War College forms in Washington DC |
Nov 27 |
Gerhart Hauptmann's "Der rote Hahn" premieres in Berlin |
Nov 27 |
U.S. Army War College is established. |
Nov 27 |
Prince Ito of Japan comes to St Petersburg hoping to get the Russians to grant Japan concessions in Korea, but later drops this goal and decides to make an alliance with Britain |
Nov 28 |
Gustav Mahler's 4th Symphony in G premieres |
Nov 29 |
East 182nd Street in Bronx is paved & opened |
Dec 2 |
King Camp Gillette begins selling safety razor blades |
Dec 3 |
Milwaukee is dropped from the AL & replaced by St Louis Browns |
Dec 4 |
Anne Russell's 'Girl and the judge' premieres in NYC |
Dec 10 |
1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy) |
Dec 10 |
First Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays |
Dec 11 |
Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian electrical inventor, sends the first transatlantic radio signal |
Dec 12 |
Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland |
Dec 13 |
Test debut of S F Barnes v Aust SCG, took 5-65 in 1st innings |
Dec 14 |
1st table tennis tournament is held (London Royal Aquarium) |
Dec 16 |
Boer general Kritzinger captured |
Dec 25 |
Battle at Tweefontein Orange-Free state: Boers surprise attack Brits |
Dec 25 |
At Tweefontein, a British force is camped on a hill slope; at 2am it is attacked by Boers coming down from the other side |
Dec 31 |
In the first election under their new constitution, Cuba elects a Congress and their first president, Tomas Estrada Palma |
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