Historical figures in 1900

The atlas holds 46 people and 66 moments here, in 1900. The most recorded lives are Winston Churchill, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Scientists.

Notable people

  1. Alfred Deakin

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    Australian barrister, journalist, federation advocate and Australia’s second prime minister.…

  2. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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    French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) pioneered airmail flying in Europe, Africa, and South America, wrote works including…

  3. Arthur Conan Doyle

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    Scottish-born British physician and writer best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh,…

  4. Bertrand Russell

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    Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was an English philosopher, mathematician, logician, writer, and public campaigner.…

  5. Camille Pissarro

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    Danish-French painter and a central figure in Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism. Born in Charlotte Amalie on Saint Thomas, Pissarro studied in…

  6. David Hilbert

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    German mathematician and philosopher of mathematics whose career began in Königsberg and was centered at the University of Göttingen from 1895 until…

  7. Dmitri Mendeleev

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    Russian chemist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev formulated the periodic law and produced a foundational periodic table.…

  8. Edmund Barton

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    Australian barrister, federation leader, first prime minister of Australia (1901–1903), and founding justice of the High Court of Australia.…

  9. Émile Zola

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    French novelist, journalist, and leading naturalist writer. Born in Paris, Zola spent formative years in Aix-en-Provence before returning to Paris;…

  10. Empress Dowager Cixi

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    Empress Dowager Cixi (Yehe Nara Xingzhen) was a Manchu noblewoman who exercised decisive power in the Qing government as empress dowager and regent…

  11. Ernest Rutherford

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    New Zealand-born physicist and chemist whose research on radioactivity, the atomic nucleus, and nuclear transmutation helped establish nuclear…

  12. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as New York state senator, assistant secretary of the Navy,…

  13. Franz Kafka

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    German-language Jewish Czech writer whose fiction transformed modern literature. Born and educated in Prague, Kafka trained as a lawyer and worked…

  14. Friedrich Nietzsche

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    German philosopher, classical philologist, cultural critic, poet, and author. Born in Röcken, Nietzsche was educated at Schulpforta and Leipzig,…

  15. Grover Cleveland

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    Stephen Grover Cleveland was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States.…

  16. Helen Keller

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    Helen Adams Keller was an American deafblind author, lecturer, disability-rights advocate, and political activist.…

  17. Henrik Ibsen

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    Norwegian playwright and poet whose career took him from Telemark and coastal Norway to theatre work in Bergen and Christiania, then to long…

  18. Herbert Hoover

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    Herbert Clark Hoover was an American mining engineer, international relief administrator, U.S.…

  19. J. R. R. Tolkien

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    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English philologist, university professor, and author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.…

  20. Jules Verne

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    French novelist, playwright, and poet whose documented life included residences and work in Nantes, Paris, Amiens, Auteuil, and Le Crotoy, together…

  21. Katherine Mansfield

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    Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, later Murry) was a New Zealand modernist short-story writer, poet, critic and diarist.…

  22. Lawrence Bragg

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    Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer. Bragg shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his father, William Henry Bragg, for…

  23. Leon Trotsky

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    3 moments here

    Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet political leader, Marxist theorist, and organizer of the Red Army.…

  24. Liliʻuokalani

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    Liliʻuokalani was the last sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, reigning from January 29, 1891, until the overthrow of the monarchy on January…

Moments

  1. 1900 First International Congress of Philosophy Bertrand Russell
  2. 1900 Move to Place Dauphine apartment Camille Pissarro
  3. 1900 Active participation in Paris Exposition Dmitri Mendeleev
  4. 1900 Delegation to London on the Constitution Bill Edmund Barton
  5. 1900 Photographing the Exposition Universelle Émile Zola
  6. 1900 Flight to Xi'an during the Boxer crisis Empress Dowager Cixi
  7. 1900 Matriculates at Harvard Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  8. 1900 Summers in Třešť Franz Kafka
  9. 1900 Begins Radcliffe College Helen Keller
  10. 1900 Treatment stay at Sandefjord Bad Henrik Ibsen
  11. 1900 Return to Boulevard Longueville Jules Verne
  12. 1900 Fitzherbert Terrace School Katherine Mansfield
  13. 1900 Enrollment at Queen's School Lawrence Bragg
  14. 1900 Exile at Ust-Kut Leon Trotsky
  15. 1900 Exile at Verkholensk Leon Trotsky
  16. 1900 Imprisonment and marriage in Moscow Leon Trotsky
  17. 1900 Returns to Honolulu during Congressional deadlock Liliʻuokalani
  18. 1900 Serves at Spion Kop Mahatma Gandhi
  19. 1900 Guest at Dollis Hill House Mark Twain
  20. 1900 Visit with Leo Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana Maxim Gorky
  21. 1900 With Anton Chekhov in Yalta Maxim Gorky
  22. 1900 Sanatorium stay at Bad Urach Max Weber
  23. 1900 Waldorf-Astoria residence Nikola Tesla
  24. 1900 Final residence at Hôtel d'Alsace Oscar Wilde
  25. 1900 Assistant teacher at Bahraich Premchand
  26. 1900 Transfer to Pratapgarh Premchand
  27. 1900 War correspondence in Bloemfontein Rudyard Kipling
  28. 1900 Visit to the American Colony Selma Lagerlöf
  29. 1900 Congress of Religions lectures Swami Vivekananda
  30. 1900 Trinity May Ball introduction Virginia Woolf
  31. 1900 Poetry gathering at Hamadera Yosano Akiko
  32. 1900 Settled in Pskov Vladimir Lenin
  33. 1900 Enters relieved Ladysmith Winston Churchill
  34. 1900 Fights at Hussar Hill Winston Churchill
  35. 1900 Constitution Bill delegation Alfred Deakin
  36. 1900 Volunteer physician at Langman Field Hospital Arthur Conan Doyle
  37. 1900 Arrival at Kingstown and journey to Dublin Queen Victoria
  38. 1900 Reception at Phoenix Park Queen Victoria
  39. 1900 Covering the Exposition Universelle Rubén Darío
  40. 1900 Establishing Vedanta Society in San Francisco Swami Vivekananda
  41. 1900 Sails for the Philippines William Howard Taft
  42. 1900 Journey to Venice with his mother Marcel Proust
  43. 1900 Birth in Ayutthaya Pridi Banomyong
  44. 1900 Birth in Khomeyn Ruhollah Khomeini
  45. 1900 Antietam Battlefield reconciliation speech William McKinley
  46. 1900 Birth in Lyon Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  47. 1900 Marriage in Papanui Ernest Rutherford
  48. 1900 Boxer Rebellion siege at Tientsin Herbert Hoover
  49. 1900 Enters Pretoria with British troops Winston Churchill
  50. 1900 Visited Krupskaya in Ufa Vladimir Lenin

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