1901 Timeline

1901 Construction begins on Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower
Nikola Tesla began planning the Wardenclyffe Tower facility ca. 1898, and in 1901, construction began on the land near Long Island Sound. Architect Stanford White designed the Wardenclyff...
1901 Frank Thomas House Constructed
The Frank W. Thomas House is located in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, United States. The building was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1901 and cast in the Wright-d...
1901 Frédéric Passy and Jean Henry Dunant Win the Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize (Norwegian and Swedish: Nobels fredspris) is awarded annually by the Norwegian Nobel Committee "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for frate...
1901 Hawaiian Pineapple Company Founded
James Dole begins growing pineapple on 60 acres on Wahiawa, north of Oahu. Dole's company becomes Hawaiian Pineapple Company and is incorporated in this year. James Dole becomes known...
1901 René François Armand Prudhomme is Awarded the First Nobel Prize for Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1901 was awarded to Sully Prudhomme "in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare...
1901 Ward W. Willits House Constructed
The Ward W. Willits House is a building designed by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Designed in 1901, the Willits house is considered the first of the great Prairie houses. Built in ...
1901 Jan 31 Winnipeg Victorias win Stanley Cup
In January 1901, the Winnipeg Victorias of the MHA again challenged the Montreal Shamrocks for the Cup. This time, Winnipeg prevailed, sweeping the best-of-three series with scores of 4–3...
1901 Feb Wright Published in Ladies' Home Journal
Between 1900 and 1901, Frank Lloyd Wright completed four houses which have since been considered the onset of the "Prairie style". Two, the Hickox and Bradley Houses, were the last transi...
1901 Feb 21 Albert Einstein aquires Swiss citizenship
The Einsteins sent Albert to Aarau, in northern Switzerland to finish secondary school.[6] While lodging with the family of Professor Jost Winteler, he fell in love with the family’s daug...
1901 Mar 4 William McKinley's second inauguration
The second inauguration was a patriotic celebration of the successes of the recently concluded Spanish American War. The new Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, was a popular figure fro...
1901 Mar 12 Andrew Carnegie Offers New York $5.2 Million To Build Libraries
On March 12, 1901, Andrew Carnegie, one of the world's foremost industrialists, offered the city of New York $5.2 million for the construction of sixty-five branch libraries. The Scottis...
1901 Jul Wright Published in Ladies' Home Journal
Between 1900 and 1901, Frank Lloyd Wright completed four houses which have since been considered the onset of the "Prairie style". Two, the Hickox and Bradley Houses, were the last transi...
1901 Jul 27 Flight of 1901 Wright Glider
The 1901 Wright Glider was the second of the brothers' experimental gliders. They tested it over the Kill Devil Hills, four miles south of Kitty Hawk. The glider was similar to the 1900 v...
1901 Aug 4 Louis Armstrong is born
Armstrong often stated in public interviews that he was born on July 4, 1900, a date that has been noted in many biographies. Although he died in 1971, it wasn't until the mid-1980s that ...
1901 Sep 6 President William McKinley is Shot Twice by Anarchist Leon Czolgosz
"The President was shot about 4 o'clock. One bullet struck him on the upper portion of the breast bone, glancing and not penetrating; the second bullet penetrated the abdomen five inches ...
1901 Sep 14 President William McKinley Dies
McKinley's doctors believed he would recover, and the President convalesced for more than a week in Buffalo at the home of the exposition's director. On the morning of September 12, he fe...
1901 Sep 14 Theodore Roosevelt Becomes the 26th President of the United States
McKinley was shot by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz on September 6, 1901, and died on September 14, putting Roosevelt into the presidency. Roosevelt continued McKinley's cabinet and pro...
1901 Sep 28 Balangiga Massacre
Between 6:20 and 6:45 in the morning of September 28, 1901, the villagers made their move. Abanador, who had been supervising the prisoners' communal labor in the town plaza, grabbed the ...
1901 Oct 9 Grant Park is established
Lake Park is renamed Grant Park in honor of Galena, Illinois resident President Ulysses S. Grant.
1901 Dec 5 Walt Disney is born
Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901–December 15, 1966) was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and phila...