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January–March

* January 1 – New York City annexes The Bronx. *
January 2 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor. * 366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading the Roman Empi ...
Ignacio María González becomes head of state of the Dominican Republic for the first time. *
January 3 Events Pre-1600 *AD 69, 69 – The Roman legions on the Rhine refuse to declare their allegiance to Galba, instead proclaiming their legate, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor. * 250 – Emperor Decius orders everyone in the Roman Empire (ex ...
Third Carlist WarBattle of Caspe: Campaigning on the Ebro in Aragon for the Spanish Republican Government, Colonel Eulogio Despujol surprises a Carlist force under Manuel Marco de Bello at Caspe, northeast of Alcañiz. In a brilliant action the Carlists are routed, losing 200 prisoners and 80 horses, while Despujol is promoted to Brigadier and becomes Conde de Caspe. *
January 20 Events Pre-1600 * 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution. * 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom. * 1156 &ndas ...
– The Pangkor Treaty (also known as the Pangkor Engagement), by which the British extended their control over first the Sultanate of
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, and later the other independent Malay States, is signed. * January 23 ** Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, marries
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (russian: Мария Александровна; – 24 October 1920) was the fifth child and only surviving daughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine; she wa ...
, only daughter of Tsar Alexander III of Russia. **
Camille Saint-Saëns Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano C ...
' composition '' Danse macabre'' receives its première. * February 21 – The ''
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'' publishes its first issue. *
February 23 Events Pre-1600 * 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution. * 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a ...
Walter Clopton Wingfield patents a game called "sphairistike", which is more commonly called lawn tennis. *
February 24 Events Pre-1600 * 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica. * 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence. * 13 ...
25Third Carlist War – First Battle of Somorrostro: Determined to raise the siege of Bilbao by the Pretender Don Carlos VII, Republican commander Marshal Francisco Serrano sends General Domingo Moriones with a relief force of 14,000 men. Carlists, under General Nicolás Ollo, entrenched at Somorrostro outside Bilbao, drive back a courageous assault by General Fernando Primo de Rivera and then the entire Republican army. The republicans lose 1,200 men, and Moriones loses his nerve, demanding reinforcements and a replacement for himself. Moriones's men entrench and wait. *
March 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland. * 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...
Third Carlist War – Battle of Castellfollit de la Roca: Appointed to command the Spanish Republican army in the north, General Ramón Nouvilas attempts to relieve the Carlist siege of Olot in Girona. But at Castellfollit de la Roca, in one of the Government's worst defeats, Nouvilas is routed by Carlist General Francesc Savalls, and captured along with about 2,000 of his men. Olot capitulates two days later. * March 15France and Viet Nam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina. * March 18 **Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States, granting exclusive trading rights. **The
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is founded, the first soccer club on the European mainland. *
March 25 Events Pre-1600 * 421 – Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto. * 708 – Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to vi ...
: The Republic of Ecuador is consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, carried out by the then-president Gabriel García Moreno and supported, blessed and specified by Pope Pius IX. *
March 25 Events Pre-1600 * 421 – Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto. * 708 – Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to vi ...
27Third Carlist War – Second Battle of Somorrostro: In a renewed attempt to raise the siege of Bilbao by Don Carlos VII, Republican commander Marshal Francisco Serrano himself arrives with 27,000 men and 70 cannons. However, in three days of fierce fighting, the Carlist General Joaquín Elío, with just 17,000 men, once again drives off the attack at nearby Somorrostro, and it is another six weeks before Serrano manages to relieve Bilbao. * March – The Young Men's Hebrew Association in Manhattan (which still operates today as the
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) is founded.


April–June

* April 15May 15 – A group of young painters, ''Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes, Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs'', gives their first exhibition, at the studio of the photographer
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in Paris. Louis Leroy's critical review of it published on
25 April Events Pre-1600 * 404 BC – Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion. * 775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against th ...
gives rise to the term Impressionism for the movement, with reference to Claude Monet's '' Impression, Sunrise''. * May 2Third Carlist War – Siege of Bilbao: The siege is lifted. * May 9 – The first commercial horse-drawn carriage debuts in the city of Bombay, plying two routes. * May 14 – First admission charge at a football game.
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beats
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(Montreal) 3-0 * May 20Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue
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, with copper rivets. The price is $13.50 per dozen. * May 23 – Passenger ship ''British Admiral'', on a voyage from Liverpool (England) to Melbourne (Australia), sinks after hitting rocks off King Island (Tasmania); only nine of the 88 passengers and crew are rescued. *
May 27 Events Pre-1600 * 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed. * 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death. * 1153 &ndash ...
– The first group of ''Dorsland Trekkers'', a series of expeditions by '' Trekboere'' in search of political independence and better farming conditions, departs South Africa to settle in Angola, led by Gert Alberts. * June 14Michel Domingue becomes head of state of
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. * June 22Andrew Taylor Still starts the movement for osteopathic medicine in the United States at
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. * June 2527Third Carlist War – Battle of Monte Muro: Carlist forces entrenched around Abárzuza, on the approach to Estella in
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, repel an attack by Isabelino/Liberal (supporters of Queen Isabella II) troops led by General
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, Marqués del Duero, who is killed on the third day of fighting.


July–September

*
July 1 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor. * 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...
** The Universal Postal Union is established. ** The Philadelphia Zoo opens, the first public zoo in the United States. ** The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, with cylindrical platen and QWERTY keyboard, is first marketed in the United States. ** The
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emits the first peseta banknotes. * July 14 – The
Chicago Fire of 1874 The Chicago Fire of 1874 took place on July 14. Reports of the extent of the damage vary somewhat, but sources generally agree that the fire burned just south of the Loop, destroyed 812 structures and killed 20 people. The affected neighborhood ...
burns down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20, and resulting in the fire insurance industry demanding municipal reforms from Chicago's city council. * July 24 ** Mathew Evans and Henry Woodward patent the first
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, with an electric light bulb. ** Third Carlist War – Sack of Cuenca: After Carlist forces successfully defend Estella, Don Alfonso de Bourbon, brother of the Don Carlos VII, leads 14,000 Catalan Carlists south to attack Cuenca (136 km from Madrid), held by Republicans under Don Hilario Lozano. After two days the outnumbered garrison capitulates, but Don Alfonso permits a terrible slaughter. The city is sacked. Subsequently, another republican force defeats the disorderly Catalans, who flee back to the Ebro. *
July 31 Events Pre-1600 *30 BC – Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide. * 781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Tr ...
Patrick Francis Healy, S.J., the first Black man to receive a PhD, is inaugurated as president of Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic University in America, and becomes the first Black person to head a predominantly White university. *
August 11 Events Pre-1600 * 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins. * 2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founde ...
Third Carlist War – Battle of Oteiza: Two months after Government forces were repulsed from Carlist-held Estella, in Navarre, Republican General Domingo Moriones makes a fresh diversionary attack a few miles to the southeast at Oteiza. In heavy fighting Moriones secures a costly tactical victory over Carlist General Torcuato Mendíri, but the war continues another 18 months, before Estella finally falls. * Heart of Midlothian was founded. * September 9 – Captain Lyman's wagon train besieged by Indians in Hemphill County, Texas. * September 14
Battle of Liberty Place The Battle of Liberty Place, or Battle of Canal Street, was an attempted insurrection and coup d'etat by the Crescent City White League against the Reconstruction Era Louisiana Republican state government on September 14, 1874, in New Orleans ...
: In New Orleans, former Confederate Army members of the White League temporarily drive Republican Governor William P. Kellogg from office, replacing him with former Democratic Governor John McEnery. U.S. Army troops restore Kellogg to office five days later. *
September 28 Events Pre-1600 *48 BC – Pompey disembarks at Pelusium upon arriving in Egypt, whereupon he is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII. * 235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus ...
Texas–Indian wars: U.S. Army Colonel
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leads his force of 600 men on the successful raid of the last sanctuary of the Kiowa,
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and Cheyenne Indian tribes, a village inside the Palo Duro Canyon in Texas, and carries out their removal to the designated Indian reservations in
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.


October–December

* October 9 – The Treaty of Bern establishes the General Postal Union, to coordinate the exchange of international mail. * October 19 – The modern University of Zagreb is founded. * October 31 – The Quebra-Quilos Revolt starts in
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, Empire of Brazil. * November 2 – The first issue of Japanese-language newspaper '' Yomiuri Shinbun'' is published in Tokyo,
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. * November 4Democrats gain control of the United States House of Representatives for the first time since
1860 Events January–March * January 2 – The discovery of a hypothetical planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France. * January 10 – The Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusett ...
. * November 6 – The University of Adelaide is founded. * November 7 – '' Harper's Weekly'' publishes a
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by Thomas Nast which is the first use of an elephant as a symbol for the
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in the United States. *
November 9 Events Pre-1600 * 694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery. * 1277 – The Treaty of Aberconwy, a humiliating settlement f ...
– The
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, a supposed breakout of animals from the
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, is perpetrated on the public. * November 10John Ernst Worrell Keely demonstrates his "induction resonance motion motor", a perpetual motion machine, which eventually turns out to be a fraud. * November 11 – The Gamma Phi Beta sorority is founded at
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. This is the first women's Greek letter organization to be called a sorority. * November 16 – Premiere of Alfred Cellier's comic opera ''
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'' at the Prince's Theatre, Manchester. * November 18 – Sailing ship '' Cospatrick'' carrying emigrants from England bound for New Zealand, catches fire and sinks in the South Atlantic with the loss of all but three of the 472 persons on board. * November 25 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party, made primarily of farmers financially hurt by the Panic of 1873. * December 1Iceland is granted a constitution and limited home rule from Denmark. * December 29 – General Martínez and Brigadier General Luís Daban stage a ''pronunciamento'' at Sagunto, and proclaim Isabel's son Alfonso as King of Spain. Subsequently, the Madrid garrison follows suit, and the First Spanish Republic comes to an end.


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* The Agra Canal opens in India. * St. Nicholas' Church, Hamburg, designed by English architect
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, is completed. Its -tall spire makes it (briefly, and by 5m) the
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(a title held since
1647 Events January–March * January 2 – Chinese bandit leader Zhang Xianzhong, who has ruled the Sichuan province since 1644, is killed at Xichong by a Qing archer after having been betrayed one of his officers, Liu Jinzhong. ...
by Strasbourg Cathedral). * The House of Keys, lower house of the Tynwald, the legislature of the Isle of Man, moves from Castletown to Douglas. * Charles Taze Russell and the Bible Student movement claim this year marks the invisible return of Jesus Christ to earth. * Gold is discovered in the Black Hills. * DDT is first synthesized. * The San Diego Natural History Museum is founded. * The following Association football clubs are founded in Great Britain: **
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. **
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(as Christ Church F.C.) ** Greenock Morton. * English chemist
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synthecizes
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for the first time. * The Supreme Council 33° Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of Canada is founded. * The medieval Frankish Tower on the Acropolis of Athens is demolished. * Schindler Group, known for escalators and elevators, is founded in
Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
.


Births


January

* January 1 **
Alexandros Hatzikyriakos Alexandros Hatzikyriakos ( el, Αλέξανδρος Χατζηκυριάκος; 1 January 1874 – 24 March 1956) was a Greek Navy officer who rose to the rank of rear admiral. He played a major role in the establishment of the Second Hellenic Rep ...
, Greek admiral, politician (d.
1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
) ** Gustav Albin Weißkopf, German-born aviation pioneer (d.
1927 Events January * January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith becomes the first Director-General. * January 7 * ...
) *
January 4 Events Pre-1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. * 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army. 1601–1900 *1649 – Engli ...
Josef Suk Josef Suk may refer to: * Josef Suk (composer) (1874–1935), Czech composer and violinist * Josef Suk (violinist) (1929–2011), his grandson, Czech violinist and conductor {{Hndis, Suk, Josef ...
, Czech composer, violinist (d.
1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * ...
) * January 5Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...
) * January 12
Marta Anna Wiecka Marta Anna Wiecka (12 January 1874 - 30 May 1904) was a Polish Roman Catholic nun of the Vincentian Sisters. She assumed the name of "Maria" upon taking her vows. Wiecka worked throughout her life as a nurse in various hospitals in both Poland and ...
, Polish Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (d.
1904 Events January * January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''. * January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. * ...
) *
January 16 Events Pre-1600 * 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire. * 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spear ...
Robert W. Service, American poet (d.
1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
) *
January 20 Events Pre-1600 * 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution. * 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom. * 1156 &ndas ...
Steve Bloomer, English footballer, cricketer and baseball player (d.
1938 Events January * January 1 ** The Constitution of Estonia#Third Constitution (de facto 1938–1940, de jure 1938–1992), new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the a ...
) * January 21
Frederick M. Smith Frederick Madison Smith (January 21, 1874 – March 20, 1946), generally known among his followers as "Fred M.", was an American religious leader and author and the third Prophet-President of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter ...
, American religious leader, author (d.
1946 Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...
) *
January 25 Events Pre-1600 * 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate. * 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...
William Somerset Maugham, English author (d.
1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...
) * January 28 ** Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre practitioner (d.
1940 A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January *January ...
) ** Gheorghe Mironescu, two-time prime minister of Romania (d.
1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...
) * January 29John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d.
1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...
)


February

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February 1 Events Pre-1600 * 1327 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. * 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Mon ...
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (d.
1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...
) *
February 3 Events Pre-1600 * 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states. *1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire. *1488 – ...
Gertrude Stein, American writer, patron of the arts (d.
1946 Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...
) *
February 6 Events Pre-1600 * 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop. 1601–1900 * 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of ...
Henry C. Mustin, American naval aviation pioneer (d.
1923 Events January–February * January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory). * January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area, t ...
) * February 9Amy Lowell, American poet (d.
1925 Events January * January 1 ** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria. * January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italia ...
) *
February 11 Events Pre-1600 *660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. * 55 – The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, on the eve of his coming ...
** Elsa Beskow, Swedish writer (d.
1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...
) ** Fritz Hart, English-born composer (d.
1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...
) *
February 15 Events Pre-1600 * 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus * 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia. * 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberi ...
– Sir Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (d.
1922 Events January * January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes. * January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...
) *
February 17 Events Pre-1600 * 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau. * 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of ...
Thomas J. Watson, American computer pioneer (d.
1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...
) *
February 19 Events Pre-1600 * 197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies. * 356 – The anti-paganism policy of Constantius II forbids the worship of pagan ...
Carl Stockdale, American actor (d.
1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...
) * February 20 – Mary Garden, American opera soprano of Scots descent (some sources state her birth year as 1877) (d. 1967) *
February 23 Events Pre-1600 * 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution. * 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a ...
– Konstantin Päts, 1st President of Estonia (d.
1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...
) *
February 24 Events Pre-1600 * 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica. * 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence. * 13 ...
– Honus Wagner, American baseball player (d. 1955) * February 26 – Nikolai Korotkov, Russian surgeon (d. 1920)


March

* March 5 – Henry Travers, English actor (d.
1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...
) * March 16 – Frédéric François-Marsal, Prime Minister of France (d.
1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
) * March 24 ** Luigi Einaudi, 2nd president of Italy (d. 1961) ** Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (d. 1926) * March 26 – Robert Frost, American poet (d. 1963) * March 29 – Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944) * March 30 ** Charles Herbert Lightoller, 2nd Officer of the RMS Titanic (d. 1952) ** Nicolae Rădescu, 45th prime minister of Romania (d.
1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...
)


April

* April 8 – Stanisław Taczak, Polish general, commander-in-chief of the Greater Poland Uprising (d.
1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...
) * April 15 – Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957) * April 19 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist (d. 1952) * April 25 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937) * April 28 – Sidney Toler, American actor, playwright and theatre director (d. 1947)


May

* May 3 – François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (d. 1934) * May 9 – Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939) * May 14 – Polaire, French actress, singer (d. 1939) * May 17 – Mikhail Diterikhs, Russian general (d. 1937) * May 19 – Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (d. 1955) * May 22 – D. F. Malan, 4th prime minister of South Africa (d. 1959) * May 26 – Henri Farman, French pilot and aircraft designer (d.
1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
) *
May 27 Events Pre-1600 * 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed. * 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death. * 1153 &ndash ...
– Dustin Farnum, American actor (d.
1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...
) * May 29 – G. K. Chesterton, English author (d. 1936)


June

* June 11 – Lyman Gilmore, American aviation pioneer (d. 1951) * June 16 – Arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (d.
1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...
) * June 17 – Grant Mitchell (actor), Grant Mitchell, American actor (d. 1957) * June 18 – King George Tupou II of Tonga (d. 1918)


July

* July 3 – R. B. Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947) * July 5 – Eugen Fischer, German professor of medicine, anthropology, and eugenics (d. 1967) * July 6 – Isaías de Noronha, 13th President of Brazil (d. 1963) * July 14 – Abbas II of Egypt, Abbas II, last khedive of Egypt (d. 1944) * July 25 – Alfred Walton Hinds, 17th Naval Governor of Guam (d. 1957) * July 26 – Serge Koussevitzky, Russian conductor (d. 1951) * July 27 – Frank Shannon, Irish-born American actor (d. 1959) * July 29 – J. S. Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942)


August

* August 1 – Constantin Levaditi, Romanian physician and microbiologist (d.
1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...
) * August 6 – Charles Fort, Dutch-American writer, researcher into anomalous phenomena (d. 1932) * August 8 – Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, British-American businessman (d. 1948) * August 10 **Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (d. 1964) **Jirō Minami, Japanese general, Governor-General of Korea (1936-1942) (d. 1955) **Tod Sloan (jockey), Tod Sloan, American jockey (d. 1933) * August 14 – Bertha M. Wilson, American dramatist, critic, and actress (d. 1936) * August 27 – Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1940 A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January *January ...
)


September

* September 12 – Redcliffe N. Salaman, British botanist (d. 1955) * September 13 ** Henry F. Ashurst, American politician (d. 1962) ** Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (d. 1951) * September 21 – Gustav Holst, English composer (d. 1934) * September 23 – Ernst Streeruwitz, 6th Chancellor of Austria (d. 1952)


October

* October 3 – Charles Middleton (actor), Charles Middleton, American actor (d.
1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...
) * October 8 ** István Bethlen, 28th prime minister of Hungary (d.
1946 Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...
) ** Nance O'Neil, American stage and film actress (d.
1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...
) * October 9 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947) * October 13 – József Klekl (politician), József Klekl, Slovenes, Slovene politician in Hungary (d. 1948) * October 15 – Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1899) * October 17 – Lumsden Hare, Irish-born actor, theatre director and producer (d. 1964) * October 20 – Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954) * October 26 – Martin Lowry, English chemist (d. 1936)


November

* November 1 – Salima Machamba, List of sultans on the Comoros, Sultan of Mohéli (d. 1964) * November 13 – Henry Kolker, American stage, screen actor (d. 1947) * November 14 – Johann Schober, 3rd Chancellor of Austria (d. 1932) * November 15 – August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...
) * November 27 – Chaim Weizmann, 1st president of Israel (d. 1952) * November 29 – António Egas Moniz, Portuguese physician and neurologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1955) * November 30 ** Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d.
1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...
) ** Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (d. 1942) ** Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Austrian physicist (d. 1915)


December

* December 11 ** James L. Kraft, Canadian-American entrepreneur, inventor (d.
1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...
) ** Paul Wegener, German actor, film director, and screenwriter; one of the pioneers of German Expressionism (d. 1948) * December 13 – Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist (d. 1944) * December 17 – William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1950) * December 22 – Franz Schmidt (composer), Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (d. 1939) * December 26 – Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Indian educationist, philosopher, philanthropist, social reformer, Sufi thinker, scientist and spiritual person (d.
1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...
) * December 29 – Thomas W. Benoist, American aviator, aircraft designer and manufacturer, founder of the world's first scheduled airline (d. 1917)


Deaths


January–June

* January 8 – Abbé Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer, historian (b. 1814) * January 14 – Johann Philipp Reis, German scientist, inventor (b. 1834) * January 17 – Chang and Eng Bunker, Siamese twins, sideshow performers (b. 1811) * January 19 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (b. 1798) * January 28 – Ludwig von Gablenz, Austrian general (b. 1814) *
February 3 Events Pre-1600 * 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states. *1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire. *1488 – ...
– William Charles Lunalilo, last monarch of the House of Kamehameha (b. 1835) * February 8 – David Friedrich Strauss, German theologian (b. 1808) *
February 24 Events Pre-1600 * 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica. * 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence. * 13 ...
– John Bachman, American Lutheran minister, social activist and naturalist (b. 1790) * February 27 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban revolutionary hero (b. 1819) * March 8 – Millard Fillmore, 74, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800) * March 10 – Moritz von Jacobi, German engineer, physicist (b. 1801) * March 11 – Charles Sumner, American senator, civil rights activist (b. 1811) * March 20 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (b. 1810) * March 30 – Carl Julian (von) Graba, German lawyer and ornithologist who visited the Faroe Islands (b. 1799) * April 13 – Etō Shimpei, Japanese statesman (executed) (b. 1834) * April 20 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (b. 1807) * June 17 – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet, Sir Stephen Glynne, British antiquary and politician (b. 1817) * June 20 – John Ruggles, American politician (b. 1789) * June 21 – Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)


July–December

* July 8 – Agnes Strickland, English popular historian (b. 1796) * July 12 – Fritz Reuter, German novelist (b. 1810) * July 24 – Gijsbert Haan, Dutch-American religious leader (b. 1801) * August 14 – Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, African-American minister, politician (b. 1821) * August 26 – Julie-Victoire Daubié, French journalist (b. 1824) * August 27 – Ștefan Golescu, 8th prime minister of Romania (b. 1809) * September 12 – François Guizot, Prime Minister of France (b. 1787) * October 5 – Charles-Mathias Simons, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1802) * October 6 – Samuel M. Kier, American oil magnate (b. 1813) * October 23 – Abraham Geiger, German rabbi, a founder of European Reform Judaism (b. 1810) * October 28 – William Henry Rinehart, American sculptor (b. 1825) * November 17 – Francisco de Lersundi y Hormaechea, Spanish noble and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1817) * November 18 – Henry Prescott, Sir Henry Prescott, British admiral and colonial administrator (b. 1783) * November 29 – Ioan Manu, Russian politician (b. 1803) * December 7 – Constantin von Tischendorf, German Biblical scholar (b. 1815) * December 22 – Johann Peter Pixis, German pianist, composer (b. 1788)


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