1901
Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)
Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years: 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 - 1901 - 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906
Events
- January 1 - Australia is federated as an independent nation under an act of the British Parliament.
- June 24 - First exhibition of Pablo Picasso opens.
- The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm
- Baseball (US) : The American and National Leagues agree to peacefully coexist and organise a World Series between their champions, which would be first held in 1903.
- Change of US presidency from William McKinley (1897-1901) to Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
- In September, President of the United States William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies eight days later. Theodore Roosevelt takes the Oath of Office.
- December 12 - Guglielmo Marconi recieves the first trans-Atlantic radio signal in Newfoundland, Canada; it is Morse code for the letter "S."
- Cleveland Indians founded
- Europium discovered by Eugéne Demarcay
- First prototype Harley-Davidson created
- Okapi discovered (previously known only to local natives)
- Katsura Taro becomes Prime Minister of Japan
Births
- February 1 - Clark Gable
- May 5 - Blind Willie McTell, blues singer.
- May 20 - Max Euwe, Dutch world champion chess 1935-1937
- October 10 - Alberto Giacometti, Italian sculptor
- March 27 - Carl Barks, Donald Duck illustrator
- September 28 - Ed Sullivan (TV show host)
- September 29 - Enrico Fermi, physicist
- December 5 - Werner Karl Heisenberg, physicist
- Emperor Hirohito of Japan
Deaths
- February 11 - Milan I, king of Serbia.
- Queen Victoria monarch of the United Kingdom
- Abdur Rahman Khan, amir of Afghanistan
- Physics - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
- Chemistry - Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff
- Medicine - Emil Adolf von Behring
- Literature - Sully Prudhomme
- Peace - Jean Henri Dunant, Frédéric Passy