Important Historical Events of the year 1901, Year 1901 in History
List of 1901 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1901
What happened in the year 1901?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 1, 1901 | The Southern Nigeria Protectorate is established within the British Empire. |
| January 1, 1901 | The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister. |
| January 10, 1901 | present |
| January 10, 1901 | The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas. |
| January 10, 1901 | New York: Automobile Club of America installs signs on major highways. |
| January 19, 1901 | Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom, stricken with paralysis. She dies three days later at the age of 81. |
| January 22, 1901 | Edward VII is proclaimed King of the United Kingdom after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria. |
| January 31, 1901 | Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters premieres at Moscow Art Theatre in Russia. |
| February 2, 1901 | Funeral of Queen Victoria. |
| February 5, 1901 | J. P. Morgan forms U.S. Steel, a $1 billion steel company, having bought some of John D. Rockefeller's iron mines and Andrew Carnegie's entire steel business. |
| February 20, 1901 | The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time. |
| February 22, 1901 | San Francisco: Pacific mail steamer sinks in Golden Gate harbor; 128 passengers killed. |
| February 23, 1901 | present |
| March 1, 1901 | The Australian Army is formed. |
| March 2, 1901 | United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion. |
| March 2, 1901 | The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops. |
| March 4, 1901 | McKinley inaugurated president for second time; Theodore Roosevelt is vice president. |
| March 6, 1901 | Anarchist assassin tries to kill German Emperor Wilhelm II. |
| March 14, 1901 | Utah governor Heber Manning Wells vetoes a bill that would have eased restriction on polygamy. |
| March 23, 1901 | Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, is captured at Palanan, Isabela by the forces of General Frederick Funston. |
| March 27, 1901 | Philippine–American War: Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by the Americans. |
| March 31, 1901 | Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák premieres at the National Opera House in Prague. |
| April 25, 1901 | New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates. |
| May 3, 1901 | The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida. |
| May 6, 1901 | The first issue of Gorkhapatra, the oldest still running state-owned Nepali newspaper was published.[3] |
| May 9, 1901 | Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne. |
| June 11, 1901 | The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands. |
| June 17, 1901 | The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT. |
| July 1, 1901 | French government enacts its anti-clerical legislation Law of Association prohibiting the formation of new monastic orders without governmental approval. |
| July 4, 1901 | William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines. |
| July 17, 1901 | Liner Deutschland sets east to west transatlantic record of five days, eleven hours and five minutes. |
| July 24, 1901 | O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank. |
| July 29, 1901 | Land lottery begins in Oklahoma. |
| August 5, 1901 | Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24 ft 11.75 in (7.6137 m), a record that would stand for 20 years. |
| August 6, 1901 | Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation. |
| August 10, 1901 | The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins. |
| August 14, 1901 | The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21. |
| August 21, 1901 | Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas. |
| August 28, 1901 | Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country. |
| September 2, 1901 | Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair. |
| September 6, 1901 | Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. |
| September 7, 1901 | The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol. |
| September 14, 1901 | U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. |
| September 17, 1901 | Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort. |
| September 17, 1901 | Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River. |
| September 28, 1901 | Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own. |
| October 12, 1901 | President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House. |
| October 24, 1901 | Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. |
| October 29, 1901 | In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine. |
| October 29, 1901 | Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution. |
| November 8, 1901 | Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek. |
| November 13, 1901 | The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster. |
| November 18, 1901 | Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama. |
| November 27, 1901 | The U.S. Army War College is established. |
| December 3, 1901 | In a State of the Union message, U.S. 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, 1901 | The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. |
| December 11, 1901 | Guglielmo Marconi transmits the first transatlantic radio signal from Poldhu, Cornwall, England to Saint John's, Newfoundland. |
| December 12, 1901 | Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" |