1901 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1901?
- 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 22, 1901 – Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
- February 19, 1901 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Ox in Chinese astrology.
- February 20, 1901 – The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
- May 9, 1901 – Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
- May 24, 1901 – Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
- June 11, 1901 – New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.
- June 17, 1901 – The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
- July 24, 1901 – O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
- August 5, 1901 – Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24 ft The record will stand for 20 years.
- August 6, 1901 – Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
- August 28, 1901 – Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. 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 7, 1901 – The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
- September 28, 1901 – Philippine-American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island.
- October 24, 1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
- October 29, 1901 – Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
- November 8, 1901 – Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
- December 3, 1901 – US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking the Congress to curb the power of trusts “within reasonable limits”.
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