Historical figures in 1900
The atlas holds 17 people and 27 moments here, in 1900. The most recorded lives are Winston Churchill, Vladimir Lenin and Mark Twain. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Scientists.
Notable people
Winston Churchill
in 1900
6 moments here
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965) was a British soldier, journalist, author and statesman whose career ranged from imperial campaigns in…
Vladimir Lenin
in 1900
4 moments here
Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik leader, political theorist, and founding head of government of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.…
Mark Twain
in 1900
2 moments here
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known as Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, journalist, lecturer, riverboat pilot, and traveler.…
Oscar Wilde
in 1900
2 moments here
Irish author, poet, playwright, critic, and leading figure in late nineteenth-century aestheticism.…
Mahatma Gandhi
in 1900
1 moment here
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, political ethicist, and leader of mass nonviolent resistance.…
Pablo Picasso
in 1900
1 moment here
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and co-founder of Cubism. Born in Málaga, Picasso trained in A Coruña, Barcelona, and Madrid…
Friedrich Nietzsche
in 1900
1 moment here
German philosopher, classical philologist, cultural critic, poet, and author. Born in Röcken, Nietzsche was educated at Schulpforta and Leipzig,…
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
in 1900
1 moment here
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as New York state senator, assistant secretary of the Navy,…
Franz Kafka
in 1900
1 moment here
German-language Jewish Czech writer whose fiction transformed modern literature. Born and educated in Prague, Kafka trained as a lawyer and worked…
Nikola Tesla
in 1900
1 moment here
Serbian-American engineer and inventor best known for foundational work on alternating-current power systems, the induction motor, high-frequency…
J. R. R. Tolkien
in 1900
1 moment here
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English philologist, university professor, and author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.…
Jules Verne
in 1900
1 moment here
French novelist, playwright, and poet whose documented life included residences and work in Nantes, Paris, Amiens, Auteuil, and Le Crotoy, together…
Rudyard Kipling
in 1900
1 moment here
English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. Born in Bombay, Kipling spent his childhood in India and England, worked as a journalist…
Dmitri Mendeleev
in 1900
1 moment here
Russian chemist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev formulated the periodic law and produced a foundational periodic table.…
Ernest Rutherford
in 1900
1 moment here
New Zealand-born physicist and chemist whose research on radioactivity, the atomic nucleus, and nuclear transmutation helped establish nuclear…
Helen Keller
in 1900
1 moment here
Helen Adams Keller was an American deafblind author, lecturer, disability-rights advocate, and political activist.…
Empress Dowager Cixi
in 1900
1 moment here
Empress Dowager Cixi (Yehe Nara Xingzhen) was a Manchu noblewoman who exercised decisive power in the Qing government as empress dowager and regent…
Moments
- 1900 Active participation in Paris Exposition Dmitri Mendeleev
- 1900 Flight to Xi'an during the Boxer crisis Empress Dowager Cixi
- 1900 Matriculates at Harvard Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1900 Summers in Třešť Franz Kafka
- 1900 Begins Radcliffe College Helen Keller
- 1900 Return to Boulevard Longueville Jules Verne
- 1900 Serves at Spion Kop Mahatma Gandhi
- 1900 Guest at Dollis Hill House Mark Twain
- 1900 Waldorf-Astoria residence Nikola Tesla
- 1900 Final residence at Hôtel d'Alsace Oscar Wilde
- 1900 War correspondence in Bloemfontein Rudyard Kipling
- 1900 Settled in Pskov Vladimir Lenin
- 1900 Enters relieved Ladysmith Winston Churchill
- 1900 Fights at Hussar Hill Winston Churchill
- 1900 Marriage in Papanui Ernest Rutherford
- 1900 Enters Pretoria with British troops Winston Churchill
- 1900 Visited Krupskaya in Ufa Vladimir Lenin
- 1900 Dies in Weimar Friedrich Nietzsche
- 1900 Attended the Corsier conference Vladimir Lenin
- 1900 School years in Birmingham J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1900 First journey to Paris Pablo Picasso
- 1900 Relocated Iskra to Munich Vladimir Lenin
- 1900 Returns to the United States Mark Twain
- 1900 Death at Hôtel d'Alsace Oscar Wilde
- 1900 Lectures in Philadelphia Winston Churchill
- 1900 Meets Theodore Roosevelt in Albany Winston Churchill
- 1900 Travels to Montreal on lecture tour Winston Churchill