Major Events
- Feb 2 Queen Victoria's funeral takes place in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England
- Mar 29 Edmund Barton is elected Prime Minister in Australia's first parliamentary election
- May 9 The first Australian Parliament opens in Melbourne, though the first working session will not be until 21 May
- Jun 24 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso aged 19, opens in Paris
- Sep 6 US President William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in New York
- Sep 26 Great Britain annexes the Ashanti Kingdom and places it under the governor of the Gold Coast (Ghana)
- Dec 10 First Nobel Peace Prizes awarded, first recipients Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy
- Dec 12 Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland, Canada
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1901 in Sport
- Jun 6 British Open Men's Golf, Muirfield: Scotsman James Braid wins first of 5 Open titles by 3 strokes from Harry Vardon of Jersey
Did You Know?
At a show in Paris, 71 Vincent van Gogh's paintings cause a sensation, 11 years after his death
Fulgencio Batista
Linus Pauling
Hirohito
Anastasia Nikolaevna
Willie Sutton
George Gallup
Clark Gable
Gary Cooper
John Van Druten
Ed Sullivan
Walt Disney
Marlene Dietrich
Rudy Vallee
Louis Armstrong
Roger Turner
Sherwin Badger
Craig Wood
Henri CochetMore People Born in 1901
Fun Fact About 1901
Private companies allowed to use the word "postcard" in the US. Previously they were labelled "Private Mailing Cards" and known as "souvenir cards".
Hiram R. Revels
Queen Victoria
Giuseppe Verdi
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
George LohmannMore 1901 Deaths
Articles About 1901
Famous Weddings in 1901
- Jan 12 Tennis champ Charlotte Cooper (30) weds solicitor Alfred Sterry
- Feb 7 Queen Wilhelmina marries Prince Heinrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- May 25 Russian physician, dramatist, and author Anton Chekhov (41) weds Russian actress Olga Knipper (31) at the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross, in Moscow. until his death in 1904
More Weddings in 1901
Nicholas II
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
Wilhelm II
