1901

common year starting on Tuesday

1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar, and starting on a Monday in the Julian calendar. It was also the first year of the 20th century.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1870s  1880s  1890s  – 1900s –  1910s  1920s  1930s
Years: 1898 1899 190019011902 1903 1904

Big Events of 1901 change

Events change

January - June change

 
Edward VII of the United Kingdom becomes King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
 
The first Australian parliament meets on May 9.
 
Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States.

July - December change

Other Events change

Births change

January change

 
Ngo Dinh Diem

February change

 
Clark Gable
 
Mohamed Naguib
 
Linus Pauling

March change

 
Eisaku Satō

April change

 
Hirohito
 
Simon Kuznets

May change

 
Gary Cooper

June change

 
Sukarno
 
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia

July change

August change

 
Louis Armstrong
 
Ernest Lawrence

September change

 
Ed Sullivan
 
Enrico Fermi

October change

November change

December change

 
Walt Disney
 
Werner Heisenberg
 
Marlene Dietrich

Deaths change

January - June change

 
Queen Victoria
 
Giuseppe Verdi
 
Benjamin Harrison

July - December change

 
Johanna Spyri
 
William McKinley

Nobel Prizes change

 
Jean-Henri Dunant, who shared the first Nobel Peace Prize with Frederic Passy.