- February 9
- Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising. [1]
- February 10
- Britain's first modern and largest battleship HMS Dreadnought is launched. [1]
- State of siege proclaimed in Zululand. [1]
- February 15
- British Labour Party organizes. [1]
- February 27
- France and Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides. [1]
- March 3
- Vuia I aircraft, built by Romanian Traja Vuia, tested in France. [1]
- March 6
- Heavy storm bursts dike, flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands. [1]
- March 7
- Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor. [1]
- March 10
- Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres, France. [1]
- London Underground opens Bakeroo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line). [1]
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- March 12
- Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast. [1]
- March 15
- British Rolls, Royce and Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd. [1]
- March 18
- Traian Vuia flies a self-propelled heavier-than-air aircraft, taking off without help of a catapult. [5]
- March 24
- "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world. [1]
- April 5
- Saint Pius X encyclical On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland. [1]
- April 6
- First animated cartoon is copyrighted. [1]
- April 7
- Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police and banking business. [1]
- April 11
- Albert Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity. [1]
- April 13
- Mutiny on Portuguese battleships Dom Carlos and Vasco da Gama. [1]
- April 18
- At 5:13 a.m., an earthquake estimated at close to 8.0 on the Richter scale strikes San Francisco, California, caused by a slip of the San Andreas Fault over a segment about 275 miles long. An estimated 3,000 people die from the quake and fires. Almost 30,000 buildings are destroyed, including most of the city's homes and nearly all the central business district. [1] [129] [648.41]
- April 20
- Australian wombat, oldest known marsupial, dies in London Zoo at age 26. [1]
- May 3
- British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey. [1]
- May 10
- Russia's Duma (parliament) meets for first time. [1]
- May 19
- Portugal's King Carlos I names Joao Franco as premier. [1]
- May 21
- Louis H Perlman patents a demountable tire-carrying rim for cars. [1]
- May 22
- The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine." [1] [5]
- May 31
- King Alfonso XIII and Victoria von Battenberg are assassinated in Madrid, Spain. [1]
- August 22
- First Victor Victrola record player is manufactured. [1]
- September 1
- Alberta, Canada, adopts Mountain Standard Time. [1]
- Papua placed under Australian administration. [1]
- September 13
- First airplane flight in Europe. [1]
- September 16
- Roald Amundsen discovers the Magnetic South Pole. [5]
- September 24
- US President Theodore Roosvelt declares Devil's Tower in Wyoming as the first National Monument. [5]
- September 25
- In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control. [5]
- September 28
- US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909. [1]
- October 8
- Karl Nessler demonstrates first 'permanent wave' for hair, in London, England. [1]
- October 20
- Dr. Lee DeForest demonstrates the electrical vaccuum radio tube. [1] [457]
- October 23
- Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France. [5]
- November 4
- In Diep River, South Africa, a building is struck by a falling meteorite. [521]
- November 8
- British New Guinea name change to Territory of Papua under Australian administration. [1135]
- November 14
- US President Theodore Roosevelt becomes first US President to visit a foreign country (Panama) while in office, to see work on the Panama Canal. [1] [150.61]
- November 22
- International Telecommunications Union Conference adopts "SOS" as new call for help. [1]
- December 1
- Cinema Omnia Pathe, world's first cinema, opens (Paris, France). [1]
- December 9
- New York American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed US Senate commission on the Congo. [1]
- December 10
- First American awarded Nobel Peace Prize - President Theodore Roosevelt. [1]
- December 11
- US President Theodore Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo. [1]
- December 13
- German chancellor Bernhard von Bülow disbands the Parliament. [1]
- December 20
- Venezuela (under Vice-President Juan Vincente Gómez) attacks Dutch fleet. [1]
- December 24
- In Massachusetts, USA, Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast, consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech. [1] [5]
- December 26
- Premiere of The Story of the Kelly Gang, first feature film (70 minutes), made and shown in Australia. [55.67]
- December 28
- Ecuador adopts its constitution. [1]
- December 30
- Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy. [1]
- December 31
- French/British/Italian treaty signed concerning rights on Abyssinia. [1]
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- January 6
- Maria Montessori opens her first (Montessori) school (Rome, Italy). [1]
- January 12
- Britain grants responsible government to former colony of Transvaal. [1]
- January 14
- Dr. Lee De Forest patents the Audion tube, allowing amplification which makes radio transmission more practical for voice and music. [457]
- January 15
- 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee de Forest. [1]
- Gold dental inlays first described by William Taggart, who invented them. [1]
- February 11
- De Master's Dutch government resigns. [1]
- Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die. [1]
- February 13
- English suffragettes storm British Parliament and 60 women are arrested. [1]
- February 21
- SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland, Netherlands (142 dead). [1]
- February 22
- First cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London, England. [1]
- February 25
- US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic. [1]
- February 26
- Royal Oil and Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP). [1]
- March 2
- General Louis Botha is named premier of Transvaal. [1]
- March 5
- First radio broadcast of a musical composition is aired. [1]
- March 11
- Nikola Petkow, premier of Bulgaria, is murdered. [1]
- March 15
- Finland is first European country to give women the right to vote. [1]
- March 21
- March 30
- In Bagatelle, France, Voisin Frères delivers the first commercially-produced aircraft, a box-kite bi-plane powered by a 50hp 8-cylinder Antoinette engine. [55.11]
- March 31
- Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt. [1]
- April 12
- Belgium government of De Stain de Naeyer resigns. [1]
- April 17
- The Ellis Island immigration center in New York, USA, processes 11,747 people, more than any other day. [1] [5]
- May 1
- Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Netherlands-Indies). [1]
- May 2
- Jules baron de Trooz forms Belgian Government. [1]
- May 27
- Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco, California, USA. [1]
- June 1
- -27 degrees F (-33 degrees C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record low). [1]
- June 15
- 44 nations meet in second Hague Peace Conference. [1]
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- French law authorizes public play of games of skill, including baccarat and chemin-de-fer games. [80.291] [187.316,468]
- July 6
- British Central Africa Protectorate name change to Nyasaland Protectorate. [1135]
- July 8
- Florenz Ziegfeld stages first 'Follies' on New York Theater roof. [1]
- July 15
- First electric bus service in London, England, operated by London Electrobus Company; lasts until 1909. [78.10]
- August 20
- Crew of the steamship Cambrian, several hundred miles south of Cape Race, Newfoundland, observe a fireball rushing across the sky "like a rocket", landing in the sea about 50 yards from the boat. [521]
- August 26
- Harry Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 seconds. [1]
- August 28
- United Parcel Service (UPS) is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington. [1] [5]
- August 31
- England, Russia and France form the Triple Entente. [1]
- September 5
- In Hsin-p'ai Wei, Weng-Li, China, a meteorite fall crushes a whole family to death. [521]
- September 13
- Ocean liner La Provence completes sailing from Le Havre, France, to New York in 6 days 1 hour 12 minutes, record time. [1053.50]
- September 26
- The Dominion of New Zealand is created. [700.47A]
- November 7
- Dynamite explodes on a locomotive killing engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico. [1]
- November 13
- French cyclist Paul Cornu flies a twin rotor helicopter. [1]
- November 16
- Oklahoma becomes 46th US state. [1]
- December 6
- Coal mine explosions in Monongah, West Virginia, kills 361. [1]
- December 7
- In Bellefontaine, Ohio, USA, a falling meteorite starts a fire, destroying a house. [521]
- December 8
- Death of King Oskar II of Sweden (and Norway to 1905); Prince Gustav is proclaimed King Gustav V. [7]
- December 10
- Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel Prize for literature. [1]
- December 16
- Eugene H Farrar is first to sing on radio (Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York). [1]
- The U.S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet of 28 warships is launched from Hampton Roads, Virginia, on an around-the-world voyage. [450.78] [1034.436] [1056.522]
- December 17
- Ugyen Wangchuck becomes first hereditary king of Bhutan. [1]
- December 19
- 239 workers die in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek Pennsylvania. [1]
- December 20
- Explosion at coal mine in Yolande, Alabama, USA, kills 91. [1]
- December 21
- Dutch government of De Master falls due to war budget. [1]
- December 23
- First all-steel passenger railroad coach completed, in Altoona, Pennsylvania. [1]
- December 31
- Death of Jules de Trooz, Belgium Prime Minister, at age 63. [1]
- For the first time, a ball drops in New York City's Times Square to signify the start of the New Year at midnight. [1] [5]
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