Important Historical Events of the year 1907, Year 1907 in History
List of 1907 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1907
What happened in the year 1907?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 6, 1907 | Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy. |
| January 14, 1907 | An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000 people. |
| January 29, 1907 | Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator. |
| February 5, 1907 | Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic. |
| February 9, 1907 | The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). |
| March 15, 1907 | The first parliamentary elections of Finland (at the time the Grand Duchy of Finland) are held. |
| April 17, 1907 | The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day. |
| May 23, 1907 | The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session. |
| May 28, 1907 | The first Isle of Man TT race is held. |
| June 14, 1907 | The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary elections. |
| June 22, 1907 | The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens. |
| July 7, 1907 | Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City. |
| July 21, 1907 | The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people. |
| July 29, 1907 | Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9 and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement. |
| August 1, 1907 | The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement. |
| August 3, 1907 | Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal. |
| August 9, 1907 | The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England. |
| August 15, 1907 | Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies. |
| August 29, 1907 | The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers. |
| August 31, 1907 | Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Anglo-Russian Convention, by which the UK recognizes Russian preeminence in northern Persia, while Russia recognizes British preeminence in southeastern Persia and Afghanistan. Both powers pledge not to interfere in Tibet. |
| September 7, 1907 | Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City. |
| September 26, 1907 | Four months after the 1907 Imperial Conference, New Zealand and Newfoundland are promoted from colonies to dominions within the British Empire. |
| September 29, 1907 | The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C. |
| September 30, 1907 | The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio. |
| October 17, 1907 | Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service. |
| October 21, 1907 | The 1907 Qaratog earthquake hits the borders of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, killing between 12,000 and 15,000 people. |
| October 22, 1907 | A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will spark the Panic of 1907. |
| October 27, 1907 | Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when gendarmes opened fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration. |
| October 31, 1907 | The Parliament of Finland approved the Prohibition Act, but the law was not implemented because it was not ratified by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.[2] |
| November 7, 1907 | Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometres (3.7 miles) away before it can explode. |
| November 9, 1907 | The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday. |
| November 16, 1907 | Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state. |
| December 6, 1907 | A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers. |
| December 8, 1907 | King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne. |
| December 10, 1907 | The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students, protesting against the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected, clash with 400 police officers. |
| December 11, 1907 | The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire. |
| December 14, 1907 | The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die. |
| December 17, 1907 | Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan. |
| December 19, 1907 | Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania. |
| December 21, 1907 | The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile. |